Firmware Jobs in the UK excluding London

Firmware
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Firmware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Firmware over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 374 391
Rank change year-on-year +130 +17 -26
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 834 476 585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.19% 0.77% 0.83%
As % of the System Software category 9.34% 5.04% 4.80%
Number of salaries quoted 615 333 210
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,625
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% +6.80%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Firmware is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,927 9,438 12,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.74% 15.27% 17.28%
Number of salaries quoted 7,160 5,994 8,402
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +106 263 £50,000 +11.11% 104
Midlands +84 119 £53,750 +26.47% 40
East of England +56 113 £56,500 -13.08% 71
North of England +68 112 £52,500 +61.54% 21
Scotland -17 96 £52,500 -0.94% 33
South West +31 91 £55,000 -8.33% 42
West Midlands +73 70 £61,500 +36.67% 18
North West +10 62 £55,000 +4.76% 12
East Midlands +18 49 £50,000 +81.82% 22
Yorkshire +103 40 £42,500 +31.99% 8
Wales +17 24 £60,000 -4.00% 6
Northern Ireland +43 16 £28,000 -13.85% 3
North East +7 10 £55,000 +34.15% 1
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 10 (1.20%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.24%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.12%) Apache
4 1 (0.12%) nginx
4 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 23 (2.76%) Simulink
2 20 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.96%) OrCAD
4 6 (0.72%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (0.48%) Windchill
6 3 (0.36%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 24 (2.88%) Azure
2 21 (2.52%) AWS
3 19 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (1.68%) GitHub
5 8 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (0.96%) OneDrive
6 7 (0.84%) AWS IoT
6 7 (0.84%) Power Platform
7 5 (0.60%) Power Automate
8 3 (0.36%) SaaS
9 2 (0.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.12%) Akamai
10 1 (0.12%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.12%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.12%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.12%) IaaS
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.12%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 128 (15.35%) Wireless
2 47 (5.64%) Ethernet
3 36 (4.32%) TCP/IP
4 28 (3.36%) Bluetooth
5 27 (3.24%) MQTT
6 26 (3.12%) Wi-Fi
7 24 (2.88%) LAN
8 23 (2.76%) HTTP
9 22 (2.64%) Firewall
10 21 (2.52%) WAN
11 17 (2.04%) RS-232
12 16 (1.92%) DNS
12 16 (1.92%) OSPF
13 15 (1.80%) SD-WAN
14 13 (1.56%) 5G
14 13 (1.56%) Internet
14 13 (1.56%) LTE
14 13 (1.56%) VPN
14 13 (1.56%) Wireshark
15 12 (1.44%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.84%) Power BI
2 6 (0.72%) Relational Database
3 5 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.24%) Big Data
4 2 (0.24%) MariaDB
4 2 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.24%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.12%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.12%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.12%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 56 (6.71%) Git
2 25 (3.00%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.28%) Rational DOORS
4 18 (2.16%) JIRA
5 17 (2.04%) Subversion
6 13 (1.56%) LabVIEW
7 9 (1.08%) Rational Team Concert
8 6 (0.72%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.48%) Rational Rhapsody
10 3 (0.36%) GCC
10 3 (0.36%) GDB
10 3 (0.36%) GitLab
10 3 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.24%) PetaLinux
12 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.12%) CMake
12 1 (0.12%) Mercurial
12 1 (0.12%) Selenium
12 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 342 (41.01%) Electronics
2 200 (23.98%) Social Skills
3 181 (21.70%) Manufacturing
4 141 (16.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 62 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (5.76%) Automotive
7 47 (5.64%) Finance
8 44 (5.28%) Marketing
9 38 (4.56%) Telecoms
10 37 (4.44%) Public Sector
11 27 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (2.76%) Retail
13 16 (1.92%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.56%) Legal
15 12 (1.44%) Military
16 8 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.84%) Aviation
18 5 (0.60%) French Language
19 2 (0.24%) Avionics
19 2 (0.24%) Law
Job Titles
1 269 (32.25%) Embedded Engineer
2 179 (21.46%) Software Engineer
3 162 (19.42%) Senior
4 140 (16.79%) Electronics Engineer
5 120 (14.39%) Graduate
6 119 (14.27%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 119 (14.27%) Firmware Engineer
7 105 (12.59%) Junior
8 85 (10.19%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
9 83 (9.95%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
10 78 (9.35%) Junior Electronics Engineer
11 77 (9.23%) Development Engineer
12 71 (8.51%) Graduate Development Engineer
13 69 (8.27%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 53 (6.35%) Systems Engineer
15 51 (6.12%) Developer
16 50 (6.00%) Lead
17 45 (5.40%) Senior Software Engineer
18 41 (4.92%) Hardware Engineer
19 35 (4.20%) Senior Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.16%) HTML
2 16 (1.92%) CSS
2 16 (1.92%) Flask
2 16 (1.92%) Yocto
3 14 (1.68%) 802.1X
4 13 (1.56%) Node.js
4 13 (1.56%) Qt
5 12 (1.44%) Middleware
6 11 (1.32%) .NET
7 9 (1.08%) Django
7 9 (1.08%) React
8 7 (0.84%) Web Services
9 5 (0.60%) FFmpeg
9 5 (0.60%) Flash
9 5 (0.60%) GStreamer
9 5 (0.60%) OpenCV
9 5 (0.60%) REST
10 3 (0.36%) POSIX
10 3 (0.36%) WPF
11 2 (0.24%) wxWidgets
Miscellaneous
1 92 (11.03%) FPGA
2 70 (8.39%) Embedded Systems
3 52 (6.24%) IoT
4 45 (5.40%) Data Centre
5 40 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
6 36 (4.32%) Algorithms
7 35 (4.20%) Driving Licence
8 28 (3.36%) Analogue Electronics
9 25 (3.00%) VHDL
10 19 (2.28%) Device Driver
10 19 (2.28%) Management Information System
11 18 (2.16%) Mobile App
12 16 (1.92%) GNSS
13 13 (1.56%) EPoS
13 13 (1.56%) PCIe
13 13 (1.56%) Video\Live Streaming
14 11 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.32%) Raspberry Pi
15 10 (1.20%) Arduino
16 9 (1.08%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 143 (17.15%) Linux
2 99 (11.87%) Windows
3 44 (5.28%) Embedded Linux
4 33 (3.96%) Windows Server
5 26 (3.12%) Windows 10
6 22 (2.64%) Windows Server 2012
7 20 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (1.80%) Unix
9 14 (1.68%) FreeRTOS
9 14 (1.68%) Windows NT
10 11 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (1.32%) Windows 7
11 9 (1.08%) Android
12 8 (0.96%) AIX
12 8 (0.96%) Solaris
13 4 (0.48%) VxWorks
14 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.24%) Debian
14 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (35.97%) Software Engineering
2 135 (16.19%) Computer Science
3 124 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
4 106 (12.71%) Schematic Capture
5 83 (9.95%) Project Planning
6 70 (8.39%) Agile
7 60 (7.19%) Software Testing
8 57 (6.83%) Customer Service
8 57 (6.83%) SDLC
9 53 (6.35%) ITIL
9 53 (6.35%) Mathematics
10 52 (6.24%) Mentoring
11 50 (6.00%) Physics
12 46 (5.52%) Validation
13 45 (5.40%) Customer Requirements
14 42 (5.04%) Business Intelligence
14 42 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 40 (4.80%) Programme Management
16 38 (4.56%) Signal Processing
17 37 (4.44%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 341 (40.89%) C
2 157 (18.82%) C++
3 109 (13.07%) Embedded C
4 107 (12.83%) Python
5 44 (5.28%) C#
6 27 (3.24%) SQL
7 25 (3.00%) MATLAB
8 21 (2.52%) Bash
8 21 (2.52%) Java
9 20 (2.40%) Embedded C++
10 17 (2.04%) Perl
11 14 (1.68%) JavaScript
12 9 (1.08%) Tcl
13 7 (0.84%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.84%) VB
14 6 (0.72%) Assembly Language
15 4 (0.48%) Rust
16 3 (0.36%) Groovy
16 3 (0.36%) Lua
16 3 (0.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 324 (38.85%) Degree
2 106 (12.71%) Security Cleared
3 51 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 39 (4.68%) DV Cleared
5 33 (3.96%) SC Cleared
6 17 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.96%) CCNP
8 8 (0.96%) HND
9 7 (0.84%) CCDP
9 7 (0.84%) CCIE
9 7 (0.84%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 6 (0.72%) CCNA
11 5 (0.60%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.60%) PhD
11 5 (0.60%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.48%) HNC
12 4 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.88%) SLA
2 23 (2.76%) QA
3 18 (2.16%) MISRA
4 14 (1.68%) JTAG
5 10 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.20%) MISRA C
6 9 (1.08%) ISO 13485
7 8 (0.96%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (0.60%) ISO 26262
9 4 (0.48%) Automotive SPICE
9 4 (0.48%) AUTOSAR
9 4 (0.48%) GDPR
9 4 (0.48%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.36%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.36%) ECSS
11 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 349 (41.85%) Embedded Firmware
2 37 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 27 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (2.16%) Hyper-V
6 12 (1.44%) Docker
7 6 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.60%) vSphere
9 3 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.24%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 33 (3.96%) SCCM
2 19 (2.28%) Ansible
3 16 (1.92%) WSUS
4 14 (1.68%) Sysprep
5 12 (1.44%) SCOM
6 11 (1.32%) Kubernetes
7 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.84%) Functional Safety
8 7 (0.84%) NetBackup
9 5 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (0.60%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 4 (0.48%) Podman
10 4 (0.48%) Terraform
10 4 (0.48%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.36%) Grafana
12 2 (0.24%) Nessus
12 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 115 (13.79%) EMC
2 60 (7.19%) Microsoft
3 36 (4.32%) SAP
4 33 (3.96%) VMware
5 26 (3.12%) HP
6 20 (2.40%) Cisco
7 19 (2.28%) IBM
7 19 (2.28%) Xilinx
8 18 (2.16%) Red Hat
9 14 (1.68%) Dell
9 14 (1.68%) NetApp
9 14 (1.68%) Veeam
10 13 (1.56%) Fortinet
11 11 (1.32%) Citrix
12 9 (1.08%) Intel
13 8 (0.96%) NVIDIA
13 8 (0.96%) Oracle
14 7 (0.84%) Ekahau
14 7 (0.84%) McAfee
14 7 (0.84%) Motorola