Embedded Firmware Jobs in the UK excluding London

Embedded Firmware
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Embedded Firmware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Embedded Firmware over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 432 602
Rank change year-on-year -40 +170 +44
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Firmware 104 357 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.50% 0.22%
As % of the System Software category 2.47% 4.07% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 49 226 113
10th Percentile £43,600 £39,375 £33,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £52,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.19% -11.02% +7.27%
75th Percentile £69,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,000 £75,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £61,000 £52,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +16.19% -11.02% +12.38%

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 4,208 8,780 9,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.57% 12.26% 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,476 7,027 5,749
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,700 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £67,070
90th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Embedded Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Embedded Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Firmware in the UK excluding London

Embedded Firmware
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Embedded Firmware in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Embedded Firmware in the UK excluding London

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 19 May 2025.

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 19 May 2025. 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 -11 31 £62,500 +25.00% 41
South West +96 25 £75,000 +42.86% 21
East of England +34 17 £70,000 +7.69% 26
Scotland +79 12 £64,250 +22.38% 28
North of England +17 8 £58,000 +5.45% 7
Midlands +7 7 £47,500 -9.52% 10
East Midlands -1 5 £47,500 -9.52% 7
North East +42 4 £61,000 +1.67% 3
Wales +38 4 £52,500 -19.23% 11
Yorkshire +63 3 £46,000 -23.33% 3
West Midlands +6 2 £49,000 -19.34% 3
North West -34 1 £55,000 - 1
Embedded Firmware
UK

Embedded Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 3 (2.88%) GNU Octave
2 1 (0.96%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 1 (0.96%) AWS
1 1 (0.96%) AWS IoT
1 1 (0.96%) Azure
1 1 (0.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 24 (23.08%) Software-Defined Radio
2 19 (18.27%) Wireless
3 18 (17.31%) Modbus
4 13 (12.50%) Bluetooth
5 10 (9.62%) RS-232
6 9 (8.65%) RS-485
7 8 (7.69%) TCP/IP
8 7 (6.73%) Profibus
8 7 (6.73%) ZigBee
9 5 (4.81%) Ethernet
10 3 (2.88%) GPRS
10 3 (2.88%) GSM
11 2 (1.92%) MQTT
11 2 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.96%) LoRaWAN
12 1 (0.96%) LTE
Development Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Git
2 1 (0.96%) Appium
2 1 (0.96%) JIRA
2 1 (0.96%) Subversion
2 1 (0.96%) TestRail
General
1 47 (45.19%) Electronics
2 27 (25.96%) Social Skills
3 22 (21.15%) Finance
4 14 (13.46%) Manufacturing
5 8 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (6.73%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.85%) Marketing
9 3 (2.88%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.88%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.92%) Aviation
11 1 (0.96%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.96%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.96%) Automotive
11 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (52.88%) Senior
2 45 (43.27%) Embedded Engineer
3 31 (29.81%) Software Engineer
4 30 (28.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 26 (25.00%) Design Engineer
6 25 (24.04%) Electronics Engineer
6 25 (24.04%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 22 (21.15%) Electronics Design Engineer
8 19 (18.27%) Senior Electronics Engineer
9 18 (17.31%) Firmware Engineer
10 17 (16.35%) Senior Design Engineer
10 17 (16.35%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
11 16 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (14.42%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 14 (13.46%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
13 14 (13.46%) Systems Engineer
14 13 (12.50%) Radio Engineer
14 13 (12.50%) Senior Firmware Engineer
15 9 (8.65%) FPGA Engineer
16 7 (6.73%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.92%) REST
2 1 (0.96%) HTML
2 1 (0.96%) JSON
2 1 (0.96%) Laravel
2 1 (0.96%) RESTful
2 1 (0.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 34 (32.69%) Embedded Systems
2 26 (25.00%) FPGA
3 18 (17.31%) Optoelectronics
4 17 (16.35%) MicroBlaze
5 11 (10.58%) Analogue Electronics
5 11 (10.58%) e-Learning
5 11 (10.58%) RISC-V
6 10 (9.62%) VHDL
7 9 (8.65%) Device Driver
8 8 (7.69%) Product Ownership
9 5 (4.81%) GNSS
9 5 (4.81%) Satnav
10 4 (3.85%) Verilog
11 3 (2.88%) Algorithms
11 3 (2.88%) IoT
12 2 (1.92%) ARM Cortex
12 2 (1.92%) CAN bus
12 2 (1.92%) CPLD
12 2 (1.92%) Life Science
12 2 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (34.62%) Linux
2 24 (23.08%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (8.65%) FreeRTOS
4 7 (6.73%) Windows
5 3 (2.88%) Android
6 2 (1.92%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.96%) Unix
7 1 (0.96%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 34 (32.69%) Signal Processing
3 29 (27.88%) Digital Signal Processing
3 29 (27.88%) Innovative Thinking
4 24 (23.08%) Requirements Analysis
5 23 (22.12%) Prototyping
5 23 (22.12%) Schematic Capture
6 19 (18.27%) Agile
7 18 (17.31%) Stress Analysis
8 16 (15.38%) Mentoring
9 13 (12.50%) Physics
10 12 (11.54%) Collaborative Working
10 12 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (8.65%) Computer Science
11 9 (8.65%) FPGA Design
11 9 (8.65%) Unit Testing
11 9 (8.65%) Validation
12 8 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (7.69%) Project Management
12 8 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 60 (57.69%) C
2 49 (47.12%) C++
3 21 (20.19%) MATLAB
4 6 (5.77%) Ada
4 6 (5.77%) VB
5 5 (4.81%) Perl
5 5 (4.81%) Python
5 5 (4.81%) Tcl
6 4 (3.85%) C#
7 3 (2.88%) SQL
8 1 (0.96%) Bash
8 1 (0.96%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.96%) Java
8 1 (0.96%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.96%) PHP
8 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (30.77%) Degree
2 25 (24.04%) Security Cleared
3 24 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.77%) QA
2 1 (0.96%) ISO 13485
2 1 (0.96%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.96%) JTAG
2 1 (0.96%) MISRA
2 1 (0.96%) MISRA C
System Software
1 104 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 6 (5.77%) Xilinx
2 5 (4.81%) Altera
2 5 (4.81%) EMC
2 5 (4.81%) Green Hills
3 3 (2.88%) SAP
4 1 (0.96%) Google
4 1 (0.96%) NVIDIA