Firmware Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Firmware Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Firmware Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £66,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 633 712
Rank change year-on-year +72 +79 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Firmware Engineer 30 124 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.075% 0.17% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.18% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 23 95 37
10th Percentile £45,500 £38,750 £44,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -19.23% +17.12%
75th Percentile £69,000 £59,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £64,000 £76,000
UK median annual salary £66,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +25.71% -19.23% +22.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 36,162 67,952 52,783
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.86% 89.22%
Number of salaries quoted 18,671 47,990 30,170
10th Percentile £26,968 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,059
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.76% +6.12%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Firmware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Firmware Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware Engineer in the UK excluding London

Firmware Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Firmware Engineer in the UK excluding London

Firmware Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firmware Engineer in the UK excluding London

Firmware Engineer
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 Firmware Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Scotland +102 11 £66,000 +25.71% 24
South East +78 9 £65,000 -13.33% 30
North of England +36 4 £48,000 -8.57% 11
Yorkshire +66 3 £46,000 +73.58% 4
South West +94 2 - - 21
East of England +31 2 £130,000 +197.14% 27
West Midlands +50 1 £67,500 +12.50% 6
Wales +38 1 £50,000 - 10
Midlands +31 1 £67,500 +28.57% 9
North West -14 1 £50,000 -4.76% 3
Firmware Engineer
UK

Firmware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Firmware Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Firmware Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Firmware
2 26 (86.67%) C
3 18 (60.00%) Embedded Firmware
4 15 (50.00%) Linux
5 14 (46.67%) C++
6 13 (43.33%) Finance
7 12 (40.00%) Embedded Linux
7 12 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
8 10 (33.33%) Modbus
9 9 (30.00%) Device Driver
10 8 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (26.67%) Multithreading
10 8 (26.67%) TCP/IP
10 8 (26.67%) Software Architecture
10 8 (26.67%) Continuous Deployment
10 8 (26.67%) Product Ownership
10 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
11 7 (23.33%) Electronics
12 6 (20.00%) FPGA
13 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
13 5 (16.67%) Validation
13 5 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
13 5 (16.67%) Analogue Electronics
13 5 (16.67%) Clean Code
14 4 (13.33%) Wearables
14 4 (13.33%) Smart Energy
14 4 (13.33%) Digital Signal Processing
14 4 (13.33%) Signal Processing
14 4 (13.33%) Embedded Systems
14 4 (13.33%) SDLC

Firmware Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (13.33%) Simulink
2 1 (3.33%) OrCAD
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) Modbus
2 8 (26.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (13.33%) Wireless
3 4 (13.33%) ZigBee
4 3 (10.00%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (6.67%) RS-485
6 1 (3.33%) Bluetooth
6 1 (3.33%) Ethernet
6 1 (3.33%) MQTT
6 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) GDB
1 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 13 (43.33%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Electronics
3 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 4 (13.33%) Wearables
5 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Automotive
7 1 (3.33%) Marketing
7 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) OpenEmbedded
1 1 (3.33%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Device Driver
2 8 (26.67%) Product Ownership
3 6 (20.00%) FPGA
4 5 (16.67%) Analogue Electronics
5 4 (13.33%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (13.33%) Smart Energy
6 3 (10.00%) e-Learning
7 2 (6.67%) CAN bus
7 2 (6.67%) VHDL
8 1 (3.33%) IoT
8 1 (3.33%) Life Science
8 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (3.33%) Verilog
8 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (50.00%) Linux
2 12 (40.00%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Android
3 2 (6.67%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.33%) VxWorks
4 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (26.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 8 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (26.67%) Multithreading
2 8 (26.67%) Software Architecture
3 5 (16.67%) Clean Code
3 5 (16.67%) Validation
3 5 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
4 4 (13.33%) Digital Signal Processing
4 4 (13.33%) Mathematics
4 4 (13.33%) SDLC
4 4 (13.33%) Signal Processing
4 4 (13.33%) Software Testing
5 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (10.00%) Integration Testing
5 3 (10.00%) Mathematical Modelling
5 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (10.00%) Open Source
5 3 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (86.67%) C
2 14 (46.67%) C++
3 4 (13.33%) Assembly Language
3 4 (13.33%) MATLAB
4 2 (6.67%) C#
4 2 (6.67%) Python
5 1 (3.33%) Bash
5 1 (3.33%) Embedded C
5 1 (3.33%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) AUTOSAR
1 1 (3.33%) ISO 13485
1 1 (3.33%) ISO 26262
1 1 (3.33%) ISO 9001
1 1 (3.33%) JTAG
1 1 (3.33%) MISRA
1 1 (3.33%) MISRA C
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 30 (100.00%) Firmware
2 18 (60.00%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Xilinx
2 1 (3.33%) EMC
2 1 (3.33%) SAP