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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 475 568
Rank change year-on-year +8 +93 +144
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Firmware 125 280 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.39% 0.24%
As % of the System Software category 2.74% 3.45% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 57 233 109
10th Percentile £43,000 £40,000 £33,600
25th Percentile £44,250 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,550 £76,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 4,554 8,122 8,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.51% 11.18% 16.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,612 6,272 5,312
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £67,070
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £79,875
UK median annual salary £51,058 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.12% -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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +56 62 £62,500 +25.00% 17
East of England +22 15 £69,000 +20.00% 12
North of England +1 13 £46,000 -16.36% 9
Scotland +62 12 £66,000 +25.71% 2
Midlands +7 10 £47,500 -20.83% 5
South West +63 9 £50,000 -9.09% 7
Yorkshire +40 9 £46,000 -23.33% 4
East Midlands +5 8 £47,500 -20.83% 4
Wales +38 4 £50,000 -23.08% 6
North West -21 4 £46,500 -15.45% 5
West Midlands +29 2 £49,000 -20.33% 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 1 (0.80%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 2 (1.60%) AWS
1 2 (1.60%) AWS IoT
1 2 (1.60%) Azure
1 2 (1.60%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 53 (42.40%) Software-Defined Radio
2 28 (22.40%) Wireless
3 18 (14.40%) Modbus
4 12 (9.60%) RS-485
5 5 (4.00%) Bluetooth
5 5 (4.00%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.20%) Ethernet
7 3 (2.40%) MQTT
8 2 (1.60%) LoRaWAN
8 2 (1.60%) Profibus
8 2 (1.60%) RS-232
8 2 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.60%) ZigBee
9 1 (0.80%) GPRS
9 1 (0.80%) GSM
9 1 (0.80%) LTE
Development Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Git
2 2 (1.60%) JIRA
3 1 (0.80%) Appium
3 1 (0.80%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.80%) Subversion
3 1 (0.80%) TestRail
General
1 35 (28.00%) Finance
2 32 (25.60%) Electronics
3 22 (17.60%) Social Skills
4 11 (8.80%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.80%) Marketing
6 5 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.20%) Automotive
8 3 (2.40%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.60%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Aviation
9 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.60%) Retail
10 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (48.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 32 (25.60%) Firmware Engineer
2 32 (25.60%) Software Engineer
3 31 (24.80%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 31 (24.80%) Senior
4 28 (22.40%) Radio Engineer
4 28 (22.40%) Systems Engineer
5 25 (20.00%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
6 21 (16.80%) Design Engineer
7 18 (14.40%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 18 (14.40%) Senior Firmware Engineer
8 17 (13.60%) Electronics Engineer
9 12 (9.60%) Electronics Design Engineer
10 7 (5.60%) Hardware Design Engineer
10 7 (5.60%) Hardware Engineer
10 7 (5.60%) Senior Electronics Engineer
11 6 (4.80%) FPGA Design Engineer
11 6 (4.80%) FPGA Engineer
11 6 (4.80%) Project Leader
11 6 (4.80%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.60%) REST
2 1 (0.80%) HTML
2 1 (0.80%) JSON
2 1 (0.80%) Laravel
2 1 (0.80%) RESTful
2 1 (0.80%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 48 (38.40%) Embedded Systems
2 37 (29.60%) FPGA
3 25 (20.00%) e-Learning
3 25 (20.00%) MicroBlaze
3 25 (20.00%) RISC-V
4 15 (12.00%) Analogue Electronics
5 10 (8.00%) CAN bus
6 6 (4.80%) Optoelectronics
6 6 (4.80%) Verilog
6 6 (4.80%) VHDL
7 5 (4.00%) Device Driver
7 5 (4.00%) IoT
7 5 (4.00%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.60%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.60%) ARM Cortex
9 1 (0.80%) FMCG
9 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.80%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 40 (32.00%) Linux
2 39 (31.20%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (2.40%) Android
3 3 (2.40%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (1.60%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.80%) Unix
5 1 (0.80%) VxWorks
5 1 (0.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (43.20%) Digital Signal Processing
1 54 (43.20%) Innovative Thinking
1 54 (43.20%) Signal Processing
2 40 (32.00%) Software Engineering
3 37 (29.60%) Agile
4 28 (22.40%) Physics
5 17 (13.60%) Mentoring
6 15 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (12.00%) Validation
7 10 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
7 10 (8.00%) Prototyping
7 10 (8.00%) Schematic Capture
7 10 (8.00%) Verification and Validation
8 9 (7.20%) Collaborative Culture
9 8 (6.40%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (6.40%) Project Management
9 8 (6.40%) Requirements Analysis
10 7 (5.60%) CI/CD
11 6 (4.80%) Budgeting
11 6 (4.80%) Cost Control
Programming Languages
1 66 (52.80%) C
2 62 (49.60%) C++
3 29 (23.20%) MATLAB
4 6 (4.80%) Ada
5 4 (3.20%) Python
6 3 (2.40%) Embedded C
6 3 (2.40%) Embedded C++
7 2 (1.60%) Bash
7 2 (1.60%) C#
7 2 (1.60%) SQL
8 1 (0.80%) Java
8 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.80%) PHP
8 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.80%) VB
Qualifications
1 53 (42.40%) SC Cleared
1 53 (42.40%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.80%) Degree
3 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.80%) HNC
4 1 (0.80%) HND
4 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.20%) QA
2 2 (1.60%) JTAG
3 1 (0.80%) ISO 13485
3 1 (0.80%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 125 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 10 (8.00%) EMC
2 5 (4.00%) SAP
3 2 (1.60%) Google
3 2 (1.60%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.80%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.80%) Freescale