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 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 353 236 375
Rank change year-on-year -117 +139 +13
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 244 856 441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.61% 1.20% 0.75%
As % of the System Software category 5.80% 9.75% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 177 630 330
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £69,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £72,500 £80,000
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 4,208 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% -

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 19 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 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 -77 60 £62,500 +25.00% 165
East of England -25 39 £54,000 -4.42% 149
Midlands -12 38 £47,500 -9.52% 37
North of England -27 38 £47,683 -9.18% 58
South West +40 33 £70,000 +27.27% 82
North West -43 27 £47,683 -13.30% 29
Scotland +43 22 £66,000 +25.71% 62
West Midlands -8 19 £47,574 -21.69% 19
East Midlands -8 19 £47,500 -5.00% 16
Wales +28 14 £70,000 +16.67% 19
Yorkshire +33 7 £50,000 +17.65% 23
North East +35 4 £61,000 +10.91% 6
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 (1.23%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (8.20%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.05%) Simulink
3 3 (1.23%) GNU Octave
3 3 (1.23%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.46%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.20%) Azure
2 10 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (1.23%) GitHub
4 2 (0.82%) AWS
5 1 (0.41%) AWS IoT
5 1 (0.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (0.41%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (0.41%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.41%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 30 (12.30%) Modbus
1 30 (12.30%) Wireless
2 29 (11.89%) Software-Defined Radio
3 25 (10.25%) TCP/IP
4 15 (6.15%) Network Security
4 15 (6.15%) Wi-Fi
5 14 (5.74%) Bluetooth
5 14 (5.74%) MQTT
6 13 (5.33%) ZigBee
7 12 (4.92%) DHCP
8 10 (4.10%) Firewall
8 10 (4.10%) RS-232
9 9 (3.69%) DNS
9 9 (3.69%) RS-485
9 9 (3.69%) VLAN
10 7 (2.87%) Ethernet
10 7 (2.87%) Profibus
11 6 (2.46%) WAN
12 5 (2.05%) VPN
13 4 (1.64%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (1.64%) RDBMS
1 4 (1.64%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (4.92%) JIRA
2 9 (3.69%) Git
3 5 (2.05%) Eclipse
4 3 (1.23%) Subversion
5 1 (0.41%) Appium
5 1 (0.41%) GDB
5 1 (0.41%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.41%) TestRail
General
1 91 (37.30%) Electronics
2 81 (33.20%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.66%) Finance
4 25 (10.25%) Aviation
5 20 (8.20%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.28%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.05%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.05%) Wearables
12 4 (1.64%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.64%) Marketing
13 3 (1.23%) Automotive
13 3 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.82%) Police
15 1 (0.41%) Agriculture
15 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 81 (33.20%) Senior
2 64 (26.23%) Embedded Engineer
3 51 (20.90%) Software Engineer
4 41 (16.80%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 38 (15.57%) Electronics Engineer
6 34 (13.93%) Design Engineer
7 30 (12.30%) Firmware Engineer
8 29 (11.89%) Electronics Design Engineer
8 29 (11.89%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 26 (10.66%) Senior Electronics Engineer
10 24 (9.84%) Lead
10 24 (9.84%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (9.02%) Radar Engineer
12 21 (8.61%) Systems Engineer
13 19 (7.79%) Senior Design Engineer
14 18 (7.38%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
14 18 (7.38%) FPGA Engineer
14 18 (7.38%) Hardware Engineer
14 18 (7.38%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
15 17 (6.97%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.74%) .NET
2 3 (1.23%) OpenCL
3 2 (0.82%) REST
4 1 (0.41%) HTML
4 1 (0.41%) JSON
4 1 (0.41%) Laravel
4 1 (0.41%) OpenEmbedded
4 1 (0.41%) RESTful
4 1 (0.41%) SAML
4 1 (0.41%) Vue
4 1 (0.41%) WSH
4 1 (0.41%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 50 (20.49%) FPGA
2 45 (18.44%) Embedded Systems
3 35 (14.34%) VHDL
4 25 (10.25%) Device Driver
5 18 (7.38%) Analogue Electronics
5 18 (7.38%) Optoelectronics
6 17 (6.97%) IoT
6 17 (6.97%) MicroBlaze
7 14 (5.74%) e-Learning
8 13 (5.33%) Verilog
9 11 (4.51%) RISC-V
10 8 (3.28%) Algorithms
10 8 (3.28%) Product Ownership
11 7 (2.87%) Data Centre
11 7 (2.87%) Life Science
11 7 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (2.46%) ARM Cortex
13 5 (2.05%) GNSS
13 5 (2.05%) Satnav
13 5 (2.05%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 58 (23.77%) Linux
2 41 (16.80%) Windows
3 27 (11.07%) Embedded Linux
4 11 (4.51%) Unix
4 11 (4.51%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.69%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (2.05%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.23%) Android
8 1 (0.41%) CentOS
8 1 (0.41%) Rocky
8 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.41%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (27.46%) Software Engineering
2 64 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (16.39%) Schematic Capture
4 39 (15.98%) Signal Processing
5 37 (15.16%) Prototyping
6 36 (14.75%) Mentoring
7 34 (13.93%) Agile
8 33 (13.52%) Digital Signal Processing
9 32 (13.11%) Innovative Thinking
10 24 (9.84%) Requirements Analysis
11 22 (9.02%) Safety Engineering
11 22 (9.02%) Systems Engineering
12 20 (8.20%) FPGA Design
13 18 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (7.38%) Stress Analysis
14 17 (6.97%) Collaborative Working
14 17 (6.97%) Validation
15 16 (6.56%) Physics
16 13 (5.33%) Technical Leadership
17 12 (4.92%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 104 (42.62%) C
2 81 (33.20%) C++
3 27 (11.07%) C#
3 27 (11.07%) MATLAB
4 17 (6.97%) Python
5 9 (3.69%) Embedded C
6 7 (2.87%) SQL
7 6 (2.46%) Ada
7 6 (2.46%) Embedded C++
7 6 (2.46%) VB
8 5 (2.05%) Assembly Language
8 5 (2.05%) Java
8 5 (2.05%) Perl
8 5 (2.05%) Tcl
9 2 (0.82%) Bash
9 2 (0.82%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.41%) PHP
10 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 69 (28.28%) Degree
2 32 (13.11%) Security Cleared
3 28 (11.48%) SC Cleared
4 22 (9.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (9.02%) CEH
5 7 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.05%) CCNA
6 5 (2.05%) CCNP
7 3 (1.23%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.23%) PhD
8 2 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.41%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.41%) MCITP
9 1 (0.41%) MCSA
9 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.43%) DO-254
2 9 (3.69%) QA
3 6 (2.46%) SLA
4 3 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.82%) AUTOSAR
5 2 (0.82%) JTAG
5 2 (0.82%) MISRA
5 2 (0.82%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.41%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 104 (42.62%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (3.69%) BitLocker
3 6 (2.46%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.82%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (4.51%) SCCM
2 3 (1.23%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.82%) Ansible
3 2 (0.82%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (9.02%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.33%) HP
3 11 (4.51%) Apple
3 11 (4.51%) EMC
3 11 (4.51%) Xilinx
4 9 (3.69%) MobileIron
5 8 (3.28%) Cisco
6 6 (2.46%) McAfee
6 6 (2.46%) Remedy
7 5 (2.05%) Altera
7 5 (2.05%) Green Hills
8 4 (1.64%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.64%) VMware
9 3 (1.23%) Cadence
9 3 (1.23%) Dell
9 3 (1.23%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.23%) Graphcore
9 3 (1.23%) Juniper
9 3 (1.23%) Minitab
9 3 (1.23%) SAP