Embedded Firmware Job Trends

Embedded Firmware
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Embedded Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 612 515 550
Rank change year-on-year -97 +35 +67
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Firmware 199 155 215
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.32% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 3.16% 2.80% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 153 79 137
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £72,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +17.14% -12.50% +9.09%

All System Software Skills
UK

Embedded 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 6,303 5,545 7,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.33% 11.30% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,382 3,336 4,386
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £74,144
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -

Embedded Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Embedded Firmware relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Embedded Firmware job vacancy trend in the UK

Embedded Firmware
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Embedded Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Embedded Firmware

Embedded Firmware
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Embedded Firmware over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Embedded Firmware in the UK

Embedded Firmware
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Firmware within the UK over the 6 months to 13 October 2026. 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
UK excluding London -94 198 £61,500 +17.14% 83
England -76 191 £60,750 +21.50% 88
South East -48 72 £65,000 +18.18% 22
Work from Home -78 40 £75,000 +47.06% 36
North of England -51 39 £57,500 +25.00% 7
Midlands -29 36 £52,500 - 10
East of England -9 33 £67,500 -0.74% 37
East Midlands -21 18 £50,000 +5.26% 6
West Midlands -28 18 £70,000 +33.33% 4
North West -25 15 £57,500 +23.66% 3
Yorkshire -39 12 £52,000 +13.04% 1
North East -59 12 £77,500 +37.17% 3
South West -65 11 £65,000 +30.00% 5
Wales -74 5 £77,500 +19.23% 1
Scotland -6 2 £47,500 -29.63% 4

Embedded Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (5.03%) Simulink
2 5 (2.51%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.50%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (4.52%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.01%) GitHub
1 4 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (0.50%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (0.50%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (0.50%) Azure
2 1 (0.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (0.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.03%) Bluetooth
1 10 (5.03%) RS-232
1 10 (5.03%) Wireless
2 9 (4.52%) RS-485
2 9 (4.52%) Wireshark
3 7 (3.52%) Modbus
3 7 (3.52%) Profibus
3 7 (3.52%) ZigBee
4 4 (2.01%) Ethernet
5 3 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.50%) NGN
6 1 (0.50%) SNMP
6 1 (0.50%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.50%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 13 (6.53%) Git
2 12 (6.03%) JIRA
3 10 (5.03%) Eclipse
4 9 (4.52%) Rational DOORS
5 5 (2.51%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.01%) GitLab
6 4 (2.01%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.01%) Subversion
8 1 (0.50%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.50%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 101 (50.75%) Electronics
2 52 (26.13%) Social Skills
3 40 (20.10%) Manufacturing
4 16 (8.04%) Legal
5 13 (6.53%) Automotive
6 12 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.03%) Aerospace
7 10 (5.03%) Finance
8 7 (3.52%) Music Industry
8 7 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.02%) Advertising
10 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Games
10 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 58 (29.15%) Embedded Engineer
2 53 (26.63%) Lead
3 51 (25.63%) Senior
4 48 (24.12%) Electronics Engineer
5 42 (21.11%) Design Engineer
5 42 (21.11%) Software Engineer
6 35 (17.59%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 32 (16.08%) Electronics Design Engineer
8 29 (14.57%) Firmware Engineer
9 21 (10.55%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 18 (9.05%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
11 17 (8.54%) Senior Electronics Engineer
11 17 (8.54%) Software Team Leader
11 17 (8.54%) Team Leader
12 16 (8.04%) Systems Engineer
13 15 (7.54%) Senior Design Engineer
13 15 (7.54%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
13 15 (7.54%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (7.54%) Software Manager
14 14 (7.04%) Senior Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.02%) .NET
2 2 (1.01%) WPF
3 1 (0.50%) Micronaut
3 1 (0.50%) QML
3 1 (0.50%) Qt
3 1 (0.50%) Qt Quick
3 1 (0.50%) Spring
3 1 (0.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.50%) WinUI
3 1 (0.50%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 64 (32.16%) Embedded Systems
2 39 (19.60%) Analogue Electronics
3 27 (13.57%) FPGA
4 23 (11.56%) Algorithms
5 11 (5.53%) VHDL
6 10 (5.03%) IoT
7 9 (4.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (4.52%) NVMe
7 9 (4.52%) PCIe
8 4 (2.01%) Acoustics
9 3 (1.51%) ARM Cortex
10 2 (1.01%) CAN bus
10 2 (1.01%) Device Driver
10 2 (1.01%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.01%) Optoelectronics
10 2 (1.01%) Robotics
10 2 (1.01%) Verilog
11 1 (0.50%) Augmented Reality
11 1 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.50%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.05%) FreeRTOS
2 6 (3.02%) Linux
3 5 (2.51%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Android
4 1 (0.50%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (29.65%) Software Engineering
2 47 (23.62%) Validation
3 40 (20.10%) Schematic Capture
4 31 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (14.07%) Mentoring
7 25 (12.56%) Signal Processing
8 21 (10.55%) Digital Signal Processing
9 20 (10.05%) Agile
10 19 (9.55%) Software Testing
11 18 (9.05%) Project Delivery
12 16 (8.04%) Decision-Making
12 16 (8.04%) Prototyping
13 15 (7.54%) Collaborative Culture
13 15 (7.54%) Collaborative Working
14 14 (7.04%) Software Architecture
14 14 (7.04%) Technical Leadership
15 13 (6.53%) Product Requirements
15 13 (6.53%) System Testing
15 13 (6.53%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 111 (55.78%) C
2 69 (34.67%) C++
3 36 (18.09%) Embedded C
4 20 (10.05%) Python
5 14 (7.04%) Java
6 13 (6.53%) Assembly Language
7 11 (5.53%) MATLAB
8 10 (5.03%) C#
9 4 (2.01%) Embedded C++
10 1 (0.50%) Rust
10 1 (0.50%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 44 (22.11%) Degree
2 11 (5.53%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.52%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.51%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.01%) HNC
5 4 (2.01%) HND
6 1 (0.50%) CEH
6 1 (0.50%) CISMP
6 1 (0.50%) CISSP
6 1 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.51%) QA
2 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.50%) GDPR
2 1 (0.50%) ISO 13485
2 1 (0.50%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.50%) JTAG
2 1 (0.50%) MISRA
2 1 (0.50%) NIST
2 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 199 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.50%) Functional Safety
1 1 (0.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (7.04%) EMC
2 11 (5.53%) Xilinx
3 9 (4.52%) Altera
4 2 (1.01%) Adobe
4 2 (1.01%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.50%) Google
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle
5 1 (0.50%) SAP
5 1 (0.50%) Xamarin