Firmware Jobs in the UK excluding London

Firmware
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Firmware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firmware over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 241 393
Rank change year-on-year -115 +152 -18
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 238 870 429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 1.17% 0.74%
As % of the System Software category 5.72% 9.83% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 172 641 321
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,125 £27,000
25th Percentile £44,125 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 4,161 8,853 9,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.57% 11.87% 15.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,330 6,985 5,661
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,500 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,875 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.75% -9.09% -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firmware in the UK excluding London

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 Firmware within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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 -73 73 £58,000 +16.00% 205
East of England -21 41 £56,750 +3.18% 149
Midlands -2 35 £47,500 -9.52% 87
North of England -23 35 £47,683 -9.18% 120
North West -31 26 £47,683 -11.29% 48
Scotland +41 21 £66,000 +25.71% 84
South West +22 20 £70,000 +27.27% 86
West Midlands +6 18 £45,074 -24.88% 51
East Midlands +8 17 £47,500 -5.00% 32
Wales +34 13 £75,000 +25.00% 27
Yorkshire +32 7 £46,000 +8.24% 49
North East +39 2 £61,000 +10.91% 24
Firmware
UK

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.26%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.10%) Simulink
3 2 (0.84%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.84%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (7.98%) Azure
2 10 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (1.26%) AWS
3 3 (1.26%) GCP
4 2 (0.84%) Firebase
4 2 (0.84%) GitHub
5 1 (0.42%) Amazon Alexa
5 1 (0.42%) AWS IoT
5 1 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.42%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (0.42%) BigCommerce
5 1 (0.42%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (16.81%) Software-Defined Radio
2 34 (14.29%) Wireless
3 30 (12.61%) Modbus
4 25 (10.50%) TCP/IP
5 16 (6.72%) Wi-Fi
6 15 (6.30%) Network Security
7 14 (5.88%) MQTT
8 13 (5.46%) DHCP
9 12 (5.04%) ZigBee
10 11 (4.62%) Bluetooth
10 11 (4.62%) Firewall
10 11 (4.62%) RS-485
11 10 (4.20%) VLAN
12 9 (3.78%) DNS
13 8 (3.36%) RS-232
14 6 (2.52%) Profibus
15 5 (2.10%) VPN
15 5 (2.10%) WAN
16 4 (1.68%) Cisco ISE
16 4 (1.68%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (1.68%) RDBMS
1 4 (1.68%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.42%) MySQL
2 1 (0.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (5.88%) JIRA
2 10 (4.20%) Git
3 4 (1.68%) Eclipse
4 3 (1.26%) Subversion
5 1 (0.42%) Appium
5 1 (0.42%) GDB
5 1 (0.42%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.42%) TestRail
5 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 76 (31.93%) Electronics
2 75 (31.51%) Social Skills
3 33 (13.87%) Finance
4 24 (10.08%) Aviation
5 20 (8.40%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.78%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.52%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.10%) Automotive
9 5 (2.10%) Marketing
9 5 (2.10%) Wearables
10 3 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.84%) Police
11 2 (0.84%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Law
12 1 (0.42%) Legal
Job Titles
1 63 (26.47%) Senior
2 61 (25.63%) Embedded Engineer
3 49 (20.59%) Software Engineer
4 39 (16.39%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 32 (13.45%) Electronics Engineer
6 31 (13.03%) Firmware Engineer
7 28 (11.76%) Design Engineer
8 24 (10.08%) Lead
8 24 (10.08%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 24 (10.08%) Systems Engineer
9 23 (9.66%) Electronics Design Engineer
10 22 (9.24%) Radar Engineer
11 19 (7.98%) Senior Electronics Engineer
11 19 (7.98%) Senior Software Engineer
12 18 (7.56%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
12 18 (7.56%) Radio Engineer
13 16 (6.72%) Senior Firmware Engineer
14 15 (6.30%) FPGA Engineer
14 15 (6.30%) Hardware Engineer
15 13 (5.46%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.04%) .NET
2 3 (1.26%) OpenCL
2 3 (1.26%) REST
3 2 (0.84%) HTML
3 2 (0.84%) Laravel
3 2 (0.84%) React
4 1 (0.42%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.42%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.42%) CSS
4 1 (0.42%) JSON
4 1 (0.42%) OpenEmbedded
4 1 (0.42%) React Native
4 1 (0.42%) RESTful
4 1 (0.42%) Vue
4 1 (0.42%) WSH
4 1 (0.42%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 47 (19.75%) Embedded Systems
2 46 (19.33%) FPGA
3 27 (11.34%) VHDL
4 24 (10.08%) Device Driver
5 20 (8.40%) e-Learning
6 19 (7.98%) IoT
6 19 (7.98%) MicroBlaze
7 17 (7.14%) RISC-V
8 15 (6.30%) Analogue Electronics
9 13 (5.46%) Verilog
10 11 (4.62%) Optoelectronics
11 8 (3.36%) Data Centre
11 8 (3.36%) Product Ownership
12 7 (2.94%) Algorithms
13 6 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (2.10%) Smart Energy
15 4 (1.68%) ARM Cortex
16 3 (1.26%) CAN bus
16 3 (1.26%) PCIe
16 3 (1.26%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 55 (23.11%) Linux
2 37 (15.55%) Windows
3 32 (13.45%) Embedded Linux
4 11 (4.62%) Unix
4 11 (4.62%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.94%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (2.10%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.26%) Android
8 1 (0.42%) CentOS
8 1 (0.42%) Rocky
8 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.42%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (27.31%) Problem-Solving
1 65 (27.31%) Software Engineering
2 45 (18.91%) Signal Processing
3 42 (17.65%) Agile
3 42 (17.65%) Digital Signal Processing
4 40 (16.81%) Innovative Thinking
5 35 (14.71%) Mentoring
6 28 (11.76%) Schematic Capture
7 26 (10.92%) Prototyping
8 23 (9.66%) Systems Engineering
9 22 (9.24%) Physics
9 22 (9.24%) Safety Engineering
10 19 (7.98%) Validation
11 18 (7.56%) Collaborative Working
12 17 (7.14%) FPGA Design
13 15 (6.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (5.88%) Asset Management
14 14 (5.88%) Change Management
14 14 (5.88%) Customer Service
14 14 (5.88%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 96 (40.34%) C
2 76 (31.93%) C++
3 28 (11.76%) MATLAB
4 23 (9.66%) C#
5 12 (5.04%) Python
6 8 (3.36%) Embedded C
7 7 (2.94%) SQL
8 6 (2.52%) Ada
9 5 (2.10%) Assembly Language
10 4 (1.68%) Embedded C++
11 3 (1.26%) Java
11 3 (1.26%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.26%) VB
12 2 (0.84%) Bash
12 2 (0.84%) Perl
12 2 (0.84%) PHP
12 2 (0.84%) Tcl
13 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 58 (24.37%) Degree
2 46 (19.33%) Security Cleared
3 40 (16.81%) SC Cleared
4 22 (9.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (9.24%) CEH
5 6 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.52%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.68%) CCNA
7 3 (1.26%) CCNP
7 3 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.26%) PhD
8 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.42%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.42%) MCITP
9 1 (0.42%) MCSA
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.66%) DO-254
2 7 (2.94%) QA
2 7 (2.94%) SLA
3 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.84%) AUTOSAR
3 2 (0.84%) JTAG
4 1 (0.42%) Automotive SPICE
4 1 (0.42%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.42%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.42%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 1 (0.42%) MISRA
4 1 (0.42%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.42%) NIST
System Software
1 99 (41.60%) Embedded Firmware
2 10 (4.20%) BitLocker
3 5 (2.10%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.26%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (5.04%) SCCM
2 3 (1.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.26%) vCenter Server
3 2 (0.84%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.42%) Ansible
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (8.40%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.46%) HP
3 12 (5.04%) Apple
4 10 (4.20%) Cisco
4 10 (4.20%) MobileIron
5 8 (3.36%) EMC
6 7 (2.94%) Juniper
6 7 (2.94%) McAfee
6 7 (2.94%) Remedy
6 7 (2.94%) Xilinx
7 4 (1.68%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.68%) SAP
7 4 (1.68%) VMware
8 3 (1.26%) Broadcom
8 3 (1.26%) Graphcore
8 3 (1.26%) Minitab
8 3 (1.26%) Oracle
8 3 (1.26%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.84%) Altera
9 2 (0.84%) Atmel