Embedded Firmware Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Embedded Firmware
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Embedded Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 430 425
Rank change year-on-year -37 -5 +140
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Firmware 125 102 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.35% 0.49%
As % of the System Software category 3.66% 2.53% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 96 41 244
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,000 £39,125
25th Percentile £51,250 £44,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -8.70%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Embedded Firmware falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,415 4,027 8,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.13% 13.65% 11.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,601 2,319 6,944
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,500 £25,625
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,751 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Embedded Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Embedded Firmware relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Embedded Firmware job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Embedded Firmware
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Embedded Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Embedded Firmware

Embedded Firmware
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Embedded Firmware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Embedded Firmware in the UK excluding London

Embedded Firmware
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Firmware within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -25 47 £55,000 -12.00% 27
North of England -12 27 £57,500 +25.00% 9
East of England -13 22 £65,000 -5.80% 11
Yorkshire -24 19 £60,000 +30.43% 3
South West -59 14 £65,000 - 6
Midlands -18 10 £50,000 +8.70% 1
North West +22 8 £57,500 +4.55% 4
West Midlands -18 8 £50,000 +2.04%
Scotland +4 4 £65,000 -1.52% 4
East Midlands -35 2 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £65,000 - 1
Embedded Firmware
UK

Embedded Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (3.20%) SOLIDWORKS
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.80%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (9.60%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (0.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (0.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.40%) Bluetooth
2 14 (11.20%) Wireless
3 11 (8.80%) RS-232
4 10 (8.00%) Modbus
5 8 (6.40%) Profibus
5 8 (6.40%) RS-485
5 8 (6.40%) ZigBee
6 3 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.60%) Ethernet
7 2 (1.60%) HTTP
7 2 (1.60%) MQTT
7 2 (1.60%) RFID
8 1 (0.80%) LTE
Development Applications
1 12 (9.60%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (8.00%) Git
3 4 (3.20%) JIRA
4 3 (2.40%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.60%) Subversion
6 1 (0.80%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.80%) GoogleTest
6 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.80%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.80%) Polyspace
6 1 (0.80%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.80%) VectorCAST
6 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.80%) Zephyr
General
1 62 (49.60%) Electronics
2 23 (18.40%) Manufacturing
3 17 (13.60%) Social Skills
4 16 (12.80%) Automotive
5 8 (6.40%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.80%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.80%) Advertising
7 1 (0.80%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Marketing
7 1 (0.80%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 74 (59.20%) Embedded Engineer
2 49 (39.20%) Software Engineer
3 42 (33.60%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 37 (29.60%) Firmware Engineer
5 36 (28.80%) Senior
6 24 (19.20%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 21 (16.80%) Senior Software Engineer
8 20 (16.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 20 (16.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 16 (12.80%) Design Engineer
10 12 (9.60%) FPGA Engineer
11 11 (8.80%) Electronics Engineer
12 10 (8.00%) Senior Firmware Engineer
13 9 (7.20%) Electronics Design Engineer
14 8 (6.40%) Senior Design Engineer
14 8 (6.40%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
14 8 (6.40%) Senior Electronics Engineer
15 7 (5.60%) FPGA Design Engineer
15 7 (5.60%) Hardware Engineer
15 7 (5.60%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.00%) .NET
2 2 (1.60%) WPF
2 2 (1.60%) Yocto
3 1 (0.80%) Micronaut
3 1 (0.80%) pytest
3 1 (0.80%) Spring
3 1 (0.80%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.80%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 36 (28.80%) Embedded Systems
2 29 (23.20%) IoT
3 28 (22.40%) FPGA
4 14 (11.20%) Algorithms
4 14 (11.20%) PCIe
5 12 (9.60%) NVMe
5 12 (9.60%) VHDL
6 10 (8.00%) Analogue Electronics
7 4 (3.20%) CAN bus
8 3 (2.40%) ARM Cortex
8 3 (2.40%) Smart Home
9 2 (1.60%) Acoustics
9 2 (1.60%) Photography
9 2 (1.60%) Raspberry Pi
10 1 (0.80%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.80%) Device Driver
10 1 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.80%) NB-IoT
10 1 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.20%) FreeRTOS
2 10 (8.00%) Linux
3 7 (5.60%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.60%) ThreadX
5 1 (0.80%) Android
5 1 (0.80%) Unix
5 1 (0.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (45.60%) Software Engineering
2 16 (12.80%) Validation
3 15 (12.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 13 (10.40%) Configuration Management
4 13 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (9.60%) Embedded Software Development
5 12 (9.60%) FPGA Design
5 12 (9.60%) Information Assurance
5 12 (9.60%) Requirements Analysis
5 12 (9.60%) Roadmaps
5 12 (9.60%) Signal Processing
5 12 (9.60%) Software Testing
5 12 (9.60%) System Testing
5 12 (9.60%) Technology Roadmap
5 12 (9.60%) UVM
6 10 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
6 10 (8.00%) Digital Signal Processing
7 9 (7.20%) Computer Science
7 9 (7.20%) Schematic Capture
7 9 (7.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 66 (52.80%) C
2 49 (39.20%) C++
3 21 (16.80%) Embedded C
4 15 (12.00%) Python
5 14 (11.20%) Assembly Language
6 12 (9.60%) C#
7 3 (2.40%) Embedded C++
7 3 (2.40%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.80%) Bash
8 1 (0.80%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (16.00%) Degree
2 9 (7.20%) SC Cleared
2 9 (7.20%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.60%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.80%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.40%) IEC 61508
2 2 (1.60%) JTAG
2 2 (1.60%) MISRA
2 2 (1.60%) MISRA C
3 1 (0.80%) ISO 13485
3 1 (0.80%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 125 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.60%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.80%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (9.60%) Altera
1 12 (9.60%) Xilinx
2 3 (2.40%) EMC
2 3 (2.40%) Google
2 3 (2.40%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.60%) Adobe
3 2 (1.60%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.80%) Xamarin