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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 386 392
Rank change year-on-year +148 +6 -16
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 856 440 595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 0.74% 0.83%
As % of the System Software category 9.76% 4.77% 4.85%
Number of salaries quoted 630 328 215
10th Percentile £31,238 £27,000 £31,275
25th Percentile £40,313 £32,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 8,771 9,218 12,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.28% 15.55% 17.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7,034 5,753 8,364
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £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 £67,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +101 267 £50,000 +11.11% 113
Midlands +82 122 £52,500 +20.00% 46
North of England +58 113 £52,500 +61.54% 23
East of England +54 113 £56,500 -13.08% 62
South West +20 100 £55,000 -18.52% 40
Scotland -20 100 £52,500 -0.94% 19
West Midlands +58 70 £61,500 +35.16% 19
North West +4 65 £55,000 +4.76% 16
East Midlands +33 52 £50,000 +81.82% 27
Yorkshire +83 38 £42,500 +31.99% 6
Wales +12 24 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Northern Ireland +39 17 £28,000 -13.85% 1
North East - 10 £55,000 - 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 (1.17%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.58%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.12%) Apache
4 1 (0.12%) Confluence
4 1 (0.12%) nginx
4 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 24 (2.80%) Simulink
2 18 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.17%) OrCAD
4 6 (0.70%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (0.47%) Windchill
6 3 (0.35%) 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 23 (2.69%) Azure
2 21 (2.45%) AWS
3 15 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (1.64%) GitHub
5 8 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (0.93%) OneDrive
6 7 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (0.82%) Power Platform
7 6 (0.70%) AWS IoT
7 6 (0.70%) SaaS
8 5 (0.58%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.23%) 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
1 124 (14.49%) Wireless
2 48 (5.61%) Ethernet
3 38 (4.44%) TCP/IP
4 31 (3.62%) Bluetooth
5 26 (3.04%) Wi-Fi
6 25 (2.92%) MQTT
7 23 (2.69%) HTTP
8 22 (2.57%) Firewall
8 22 (2.57%) LAN
8 22 (2.57%) WAN
9 18 (2.10%) RS-232
10 17 (1.99%) Internet
11 16 (1.87%) OSPF
11 16 (1.87%) SD-WAN
12 15 (1.75%) 5G
12 15 (1.75%) DNS
13 13 (1.52%) Wireshark
14 12 (1.40%) BGP
14 12 (1.40%) LTE
14 12 (1.40%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.82%) Power BI
2 6 (0.70%) Relational Database
3 5 (0.58%) Big Data
4 3 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.23%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.23%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.12%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.12%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 53 (6.19%) Git
2 27 (3.15%) Jenkins
3 21 (2.45%) Rational DOORS
4 20 (2.34%) JIRA
5 16 (1.87%) Subversion
6 13 (1.52%) LabVIEW
7 9 (1.05%) Rational Team Concert
8 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.47%) GitLab
9 4 (0.47%) Rational Rhapsody
10 3 (0.35%) GCC
10 3 (0.35%) GDB
10 3 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.23%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.23%) PetaLinux
11 2 (0.23%) Postman
12 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.12%) CMake
12 1 (0.12%) Phabricator
12 1 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 355 (41.47%) Electronics
2 206 (24.07%) Social Skills
3 190 (22.20%) Manufacturing
4 139 (16.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 71 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (5.96%) Automotive
7 44 (5.14%) Finance
7 44 (5.14%) Marketing
8 38 (4.44%) Telecoms
9 37 (4.32%) Public Sector
10 32 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
11 31 (3.62%) Retail
12 17 (1.99%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.52%) Legal
14 12 (1.40%) Military
15 9 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.82%) Aviation
17 5 (0.58%) French Language
18 2 (0.23%) Avionics
18 2 (0.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 275 (32.13%) Embedded Engineer
2 178 (20.79%) Software Engineer
3 171 (19.98%) Senior
4 143 (16.71%) Electronics Engineer
5 123 (14.37%) Firmware Engineer
6 121 (14.14%) Graduate
7 119 (13.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 106 (12.38%) Junior
9 87 (10.16%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
10 84 (9.81%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
11 79 (9.23%) Junior Electronics Engineer
12 78 (9.11%) Development Engineer
13 73 (8.53%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 71 (8.29%) Graduate Development Engineer
15 58 (6.78%) Systems Engineer
16 53 (6.19%) Lead
17 49 (5.72%) Developer
18 48 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
19 45 (5.26%) Hardware Engineer
20 38 (4.44%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.99%) HTML
2 16 (1.87%) Yocto
3 15 (1.75%) CSS
4 14 (1.64%) 802.1X
4 14 (1.64%) Flask
5 13 (1.52%) Node.js
5 13 (1.52%) Qt
6 12 (1.40%) Middleware
7 10 (1.17%) .NET
8 8 (0.93%) Django
8 8 (0.93%) React
9 7 (0.82%) Web Services
10 5 (0.58%) FFmpeg
10 5 (0.58%) Flash
10 5 (0.58%) GStreamer
10 5 (0.58%) OpenCV
10 5 (0.58%) REST
10 5 (0.58%) WPF
11 3 (0.35%) POSIX
12 2 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (11.33%) FPGA
2 71 (8.29%) Embedded Systems
3 53 (6.19%) IoT
4 51 (5.96%) Self-Motivation
5 47 (5.49%) Data Centre
6 40 (4.67%) Driving Licence
7 36 (4.21%) Algorithms
8 30 (3.50%) Analogue Electronics
8 30 (3.50%) VHDL
9 22 (2.57%) Management Information System
10 21 (2.45%) GNSS
11 20 (2.34%) EPoS
12 19 (2.22%) Mobile App
13 18 (2.10%) Device Driver
14 13 (1.52%) PCIe
14 13 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
15 11 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (1.29%) Raspberry Pi
16 10 (1.17%) Arduino
16 10 (1.17%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 152 (17.76%) Linux
2 101 (11.80%) Windows
3 48 (5.61%) Embedded Linux
4 26 (3.04%) Windows Server
5 21 (2.45%) Windows 10
6 17 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 16 (1.87%) Unix
8 15 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
9 14 (1.64%) FreeRTOS
10 11 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (1.29%) Windows NT
11 9 (1.05%) Android
11 9 (1.05%) Windows 7
12 8 (0.93%) AIX
12 8 (0.93%) Solaris
13 5 (0.58%) VxWorks
14 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.23%) Debian
14 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (34.81%) Software Engineering
2 139 (16.24%) Computer Science
3 129 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
4 109 (12.73%) Schematic Capture
5 83 (9.70%) Project Planning
6 76 (8.88%) Agile
7 62 (7.24%) Software Testing
8 59 (6.89%) Customer Service
9 57 (6.66%) SDLC
10 55 (6.43%) Mentoring
11 53 (6.19%) ITIL
12 51 (5.96%) Mathematics
13 50 (5.84%) Validation
14 48 (5.61%) Customer Requirements
15 47 (5.49%) Physics
16 41 (4.79%) Business Intelligence
17 40 (4.67%) Signal Processing
18 39 (4.56%) Programme Management
19 38 (4.44%) Technical Leadership
19 38 (4.44%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 346 (40.42%) C
2 164 (19.16%) C++
3 109 (12.73%) Embedded C
4 106 (12.38%) Python
5 46 (5.37%) C#
6 27 (3.15%) MATLAB
6 27 (3.15%) SQL
7 22 (2.57%) Embedded C++
8 21 (2.45%) Java
9 20 (2.34%) Bash
10 18 (2.10%) Perl
11 13 (1.52%) JavaScript
12 10 (1.17%) Tcl
13 8 (0.93%) VB
14 7 (0.82%) Assembly Language
14 7 (0.82%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.58%) XAML
16 3 (0.35%) Groovy
16 3 (0.35%) Lua
16 3 (0.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 334 (39.02%) Degree
2 102 (11.92%) Security Cleared
3 58 (6.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 34 (3.97%) DV Cleared
5 31 (3.62%) SC Cleared
6 17 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.05%) CCNP
9 8 (0.93%) HND
10 7 (0.82%) CCDP
10 7 (0.82%) CCIE
10 7 (0.82%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 7 (0.82%) CCNA
11 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.58%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (0.58%) PhD
11 5 (0.58%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.47%) HNC
12 4 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.39%) SLA
2 28 (3.27%) QA
3 19 (2.22%) MISRA
4 14 (1.64%) JTAG
5 11 (1.29%) MISRA C
6 10 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.05%) ISO 13485
8 8 (0.93%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 5 (0.58%) ISO 26262
10 4 (0.47%) Automotive SPICE
10 4 (0.47%) AUTOSAR
10 4 (0.47%) GDPR
10 4 (0.47%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.35%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.35%) ECSS
12 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 61131
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 356 (41.59%) Embedded Firmware
2 32 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.87%) Hyper-V
6 13 (1.52%) Docker
7 6 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.58%) vSphere
9 3 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.23%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 28 (3.27%) SCCM
2 19 (2.22%) Ansible
3 13 (1.52%) WSUS
4 11 (1.29%) Kubernetes
4 11 (1.29%) Sysprep
5 10 (1.17%) SCOM
6 7 (0.82%) Functional Safety
6 7 (0.82%) NetBackup
7 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.47%) Podman
8 4 (0.47%) Terraform
8 4 (0.47%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.35%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.35%) Grafana
9 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 119 (13.90%) EMC
2 51 (5.96%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.09%) SAP
4 32 (3.74%) HP
5 31 (3.62%) VMware
6 27 (3.15%) IBM
7 21 (2.45%) Dell
7 21 (2.45%) NetApp
8 20 (2.34%) Xilinx
9 19 (2.22%) Cisco
10 18 (2.10%) Red Hat
11 14 (1.64%) Fortinet
12 12 (1.40%) Veeam
13 9 (1.05%) Altera
13 9 (1.05%) Citrix
13 9 (1.05%) Intel
14 8 (0.93%) Green Hills
14 8 (0.93%) Motorola
14 8 (0.93%) Oracle
15 7 (0.82%) McAfee