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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 621 534 570
Rank change year-on-year -87 +36 +122
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Firmware 156 146 258
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 2.62% 2.40% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 128 59 211
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £71,400 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +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 5,952 6,091 8,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.61% 12.24% 10.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,312 3,823 6,126
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -11.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £46,958
% change year-on-year +17.65% -9.49% -3.18%

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 11 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Embedded Firmware in the UK

Embedded Firmware
Top 16 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 11 August 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 -62 154 £60,000 +7.14% 106
England -64 149 £60,000 +9.09% 115
South East -55 56 £65,000 +4.00% 29
North of England -19 38 £57,500 +25.00% 24
Work from Home -58 35 £72,500 +48.72% 38
East of England -15 27 £80,000 +15.94% 28
Midlands -38 19 £50,000 +5.26% 12
Yorkshire -23 18 £60,000 +30.43% 9
North West -7 12 £57,500 +23.66% 8
West Midlands -27 10 £50,000 +12.36% 5
East Midlands -23 9 £50,000 +5.26% 7
South West -69 8 £62,500 +25.00% 12
North East - 8 £77,500 - 8
Wales -58 4 £77,500 +55.00% 3
Scotland 0 1 £47,500 -28.84% 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £65,000 -

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 3 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.56%) SOLIDWORKS
2 3 (1.92%) Simulink
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (6.41%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1 (0.64%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (0.64%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (0.64%) GitHub
1 1 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (0.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (0.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.90%) Bluetooth
2 13 (8.33%) Wireless
3 12 (7.69%) RS-232
4 11 (7.05%) Modbus
4 11 (7.05%) RS-485
5 9 (5.77%) Profibus
5 9 (5.77%) ZigBee
6 3 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.28%) Ethernet
7 2 (1.28%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.64%) LTE
8 1 (0.64%) RFID
Development Applications
1 14 (8.97%) Git
2 10 (6.41%) Rational DOORS
3 7 (4.49%) JIRA
4 3 (1.92%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.28%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.28%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.28%) Subversion
5 2 (1.28%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.28%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.64%) GitLab
6 1 (0.64%) GoogleTest
6 1 (0.64%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.64%) Polyspace
6 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.64%) VectorCAST
6 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 83 (53.21%) Electronics
2 35 (22.44%) Manufacturing
3 31 (19.87%) Social Skills
4 16 (10.26%) Automotive
5 9 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (5.13%) Aerospace
7 6 (3.85%) Finance
8 4 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Advertising
9 1 (0.64%) Cyber-Physical System
9 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Marketing
9 1 (0.64%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 71 (45.51%) Embedded Engineer
2 53 (33.97%) Senior
2 53 (33.97%) Software Engineer
3 44 (28.21%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 35 (22.44%) Firmware Engineer
5 31 (19.87%) Lead
6 27 (17.31%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 24 (15.38%) Design Engineer
8 22 (14.10%) Senior Software Engineer
9 21 (13.46%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 20 (12.82%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
11 18 (11.54%) Electronics Engineer
11 18 (11.54%) Senior Firmware Engineer
12 14 (8.97%) Electronics Design Engineer
13 13 (8.33%) Senior Design Engineer
13 13 (8.33%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
13 13 (8.33%) Senior Electronics Engineer
14 12 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
15 11 (7.05%) FPGA Engineer
16 10 (6.41%) FPGA Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.85%) .NET
2 2 (1.28%) WPF
3 1 (0.64%) Micronaut
3 1 (0.64%) pytest
3 1 (0.64%) Spring
3 1 (0.64%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.64%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 54 (34.62%) Embedded Systems
2 28 (17.95%) FPGA
3 22 (14.10%) Algorithms
4 17 (10.90%) Analogue Electronics
4 17 (10.90%) IoT
5 11 (7.05%) PCIe
5 11 (7.05%) VHDL
6 10 (6.41%) NVMe
7 6 (3.85%) ARM Cortex
8 4 (2.56%) CAN bus
9 3 (1.92%) Acoustics
10 2 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.28%) Device Driver
10 2 (1.28%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.28%) Smart Home
11 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.64%) Photography
11 1 (0.64%) Raspberry Pi
11 1 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.64%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 30 (19.23%) FreeRTOS
2 8 (5.13%) Linux
3 7 (4.49%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.28%) ThreadX
5 1 (0.64%) Android
5 1 (0.64%) Unix
5 1 (0.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (42.31%) Software Engineering
2 31 (19.87%) Validation
3 23 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (13.46%) Mentoring
4 21 (13.46%) Signal Processing
5 19 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (11.54%) Digital Signal Processing
7 17 (10.90%) Collaborative Culture
8 15 (9.62%) Collaborative Working
8 15 (9.62%) Software Testing
9 14 (8.97%) Embedded Software Development
9 14 (8.97%) Project Delivery
9 14 (8.97%) Schematic Capture
10 13 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (7.69%) Software Architecture
11 12 (7.69%) Unit Testing
12 11 (7.05%) Computer Science
12 11 (7.05%) Information Assurance
12 11 (7.05%) Machine Learning
12 11 (7.05%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 83 (53.21%) C
2 54 (34.62%) C++
3 28 (17.95%) Embedded C
4 20 (12.82%) Python
5 13 (8.33%) Assembly Language
5 13 (8.33%) C#
6 5 (3.21%) MATLAB
7 4 (2.56%) Java
8 3 (1.92%) Embedded C++
9 1 (0.64%) Bash
9 1 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (18.59%) Degree
2 10 (6.41%) SC Cleared
2 10 (6.41%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.92%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.64%) CEH
4 1 (0.64%) CISMP
4 1 (0.64%) CISSP
4 1 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (0.64%) HNC
4 1 (0.64%) HND
4 1 (0.64%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.92%) IEC 61508
2 2 (1.28%) MISRA
2 2 (1.28%) MISRA C
3 1 (0.64%) ISO 13485
3 1 (0.64%) ISO 26262
3 1 (0.64%) NIST
3 1 (0.64%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.64%) QA
System Software
1 156 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.28%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (7.05%) Xilinx
2 10 (6.41%) Altera
3 6 (3.85%) EMC
4 2 (1.28%) Adobe
5 1 (0.64%) Google
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.64%) Xamarin