Firmware Jobs

Firmware
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 402 638
Rank change year-on-year +48 +236 -72
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 534 426 612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.72% 0.44%
As % of the System Software category 6.89% 4.28% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 303 319 273
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,250 £71,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -8.70% +15.00%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 7,755 9,958 22,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.25% 16.75% 16.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,369 7,495 13,386
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £38,897
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% +5.26%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the UK

Firmware
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firmware.

Salary trend for Firmware in the UK

Firmware
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Firmware in the UK

Firmware
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the UK over the 6 months to 23 October 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
UK excluding London +22 508 £56,000 +6.67% 294
England +40 481 £55,000 +2.80% 302
South East +32 164 £50,000 -6.54% 92
Work from Home -4 157 £63,500 +15.45% 239
Midlands +5 99 £60,000 +20.00% 25
South West +40 80 £65,000 +52.94% 45
East Midlands +13 69 £60,000 +20.00% 12
East of England -18 61 £51,000 -15.00% 89
North of England -53 56 £55,000 +4.76% 29
West Midlands -38 30 £64,250 +11.74% 13
Scotland -31 27 £67,500 +28.57% 19
North West -36 26 £52,500 -4.55% 20
London -9 21 £54,750 +1.86% 31
North East -17 16 £56,000 +1.82% 2
Wales +42 15 £70,000 +62.08% 7
Yorkshire +6 14 £55,000 +59.42% 7
Northern Ireland +30 6 £28,000 -44.00% 3

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (2.06%) Confluence
2 8 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.94%) Kinematics
4 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.19%) IIS
Applications
1 27 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.37%) OrCAD
3 8 (1.50%) Simulink
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.19%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.19%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 42 (7.87%) Azure
2 22 (4.12%) AWS
3 14 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (2.06%) SaaS
5 7 (1.31%) Power Platform
6 6 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (1.12%) GitHub
7 5 (0.94%) AWS CodeCommit
7 5 (0.94%) Entra ID
7 5 (0.94%) GCP
8 4 (0.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (0.75%) Cloudflare
8 4 (0.75%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.37%) Azure Functions
9 2 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.37%) IaaS
9 2 (0.37%) PaaS
9 2 (0.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 50 (9.36%) Firewall
2 38 (7.12%) Wireless
3 31 (5.81%) Bluetooth
3 31 (5.81%) TCP/IP
4 26 (4.87%) DNS
4 26 (4.87%) Wi-Fi
5 25 (4.68%) WAN
6 20 (3.75%) VLAN
7 19 (3.56%) Internet
7 19 (3.56%) OSPF
8 17 (3.18%) DHCP
8 17 (3.18%) VPN
9 15 (2.81%) Ethernet
9 15 (2.81%) Software-Defined Radio
10 13 (2.43%) 5G
10 13 (2.43%) SD-WAN
11 12 (2.25%) DVB
11 12 (2.25%) Network Security
12 10 (1.87%) HTTP
12 10 (1.87%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.87%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.31%) Power BI
3 5 (0.94%) Big Data
3 5 (0.94%) MySQL
4 4 (0.75%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.37%) DB2
5 2 (0.37%) GIS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 43 (8.05%) Git
2 29 (5.43%) JIRA
3 15 (2.81%) Rational DOORS
4 13 (2.43%) Subversion
5 7 (1.31%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.12%) TestRail
7 5 (0.94%) GitLab
7 5 (0.94%) LabVIEW
8 4 (0.75%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.75%) Rational Team Concert
9 3 (0.56%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.37%) Tricentis qTest
11 1 (0.19%) Postman
11 1 (0.19%) Rational Rhapsody
11 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 220 (41.20%) Electronics
2 95 (17.79%) Social Skills
3 66 (12.36%) Manufacturing
4 47 (8.80%) Automotive
5 38 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (5.06%) Aerospace
7 25 (4.68%) Finance
8 18 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (3.00%) Retail
10 15 (2.81%) Marketing
11 14 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (2.43%) Military
13 12 (2.25%) Telecoms
14 11 (2.06%) Public Sector
15 8 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (1.50%) Legal
16 6 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.75%) Law
17 4 (0.75%) Tech for Good
18 2 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 219 (41.01%) Embedded Engineer
2 144 (26.97%) Senior
3 138 (25.84%) Software Engineer
4 95 (17.79%) Firmware Engineer
5 94 (17.60%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 81 (15.17%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 70 (13.11%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 48 (8.99%) Systems Engineer
9 47 (8.80%) Senior Software Engineer
10 39 (7.30%) Design Engineer
11 35 (6.55%) Electronics Engineer
12 33 (6.18%) Hardware Engineer
13 32 (5.99%) Lead
13 32 (5.99%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 32 (5.99%) Senior Firmware Engineer
14 21 (3.93%) Developer
14 21 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (3.93%) Network Engineer
14 21 (3.93%) Senior Electronics Engineer
15 20 (3.75%) Electronics Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.81%) .NET
2 14 (2.62%) Yocto
3 13 (2.43%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 10 (1.87%) 802.1X
5 7 (1.31%) WPF
6 6 (1.12%) Gherkin
6 6 (1.12%) Node.js
7 5 (0.94%) GStreamer
7 5 (0.94%) NestJS
8 4 (0.75%) SAML
8 4 (0.75%) XML
9 3 (0.56%) Flash
10 2 (0.37%) AWS CDK
10 2 (0.37%) OpenGL
10 2 (0.37%) QML
10 2 (0.37%) Qt
10 2 (0.37%) REST
10 2 (0.37%) SOAP
10 2 (0.37%) Vulkan
11 1 (0.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 74 (13.86%) Embedded Systems
2 70 (13.11%) FPGA
3 49 (9.18%) VHDL
4 46 (8.61%) Self-Motivation
5 40 (7.49%) Algorithms
6 30 (5.62%) IoT
7 28 (5.24%) Data Centre
8 27 (5.06%) Driving Licence
9 21 (3.93%) Analogue Electronics
10 19 (3.56%) Management Information System
11 18 (3.37%) Device Driver
12 17 (3.18%) GNSS
13 14 (2.62%) Optoelectronics
14 12 (2.25%) EPoS
15 11 (2.06%) CAN bus
16 10 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
16 10 (1.87%) Life Science
16 10 (1.87%) MicroBlaze
17 9 (1.69%) Tandem
17 9 (1.69%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 143 (26.78%) Linux
2 84 (15.73%) Windows
3 70 (13.11%) Embedded Linux
4 35 (6.55%) Windows Server
5 18 (3.37%) Windows Server 2012
5 18 (3.37%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (3.00%) Android
6 16 (3.00%) Windows 10
7 14 (2.62%) Unix
8 13 (2.43%) FreeRTOS
9 11 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (1.69%) Windows NT
11 4 (0.75%) Debian
11 4 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.75%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.75%) VxWorks
12 2 (0.37%) AIX
13 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (32.96%) Software Engineering
2 74 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
3 71 (13.30%) Computer Science
4 57 (10.67%) Agile
5 54 (10.11%) Signal Processing
6 44 (8.24%) Mentoring
7 39 (7.30%) Open Source
7 39 (7.30%) Schematic Capture
8 38 (7.12%) Software Testing
9 37 (6.93%) Digital Signal Processing
9 37 (6.93%) Test Automation
10 32 (5.99%) ITIL
11 30 (5.62%) Prototyping
12 29 (5.43%) Customer Service
12 29 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 28 (5.24%) Customer Requirements
13 28 (5.24%) Cybersecurity
14 26 (4.87%) DevOps
14 26 (4.87%) Project Management
15 24 (4.49%) Design for Manufacturing
Programming Languages
1 218 (40.82%) C
2 203 (38.01%) C++
3 111 (20.79%) Python
4 69 (12.92%) Embedded C
5 61 (11.42%) C#
6 49 (9.18%) Java
7 28 (5.24%) MATLAB
8 20 (3.75%) Embedded C++
9 16 (3.00%) SQL
10 13 (2.43%) Bash
11 9 (1.69%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.12%) VB
13 5 (0.94%) Rust
13 5 (0.94%) XAML
14 3 (0.56%) Assembly Language
14 3 (0.56%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.56%) Perl
15 2 (0.37%) JavaScript
15 2 (0.37%) SystemVerilog
15 2 (0.37%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 177 (33.15%) Degree
2 88 (16.48%) Security Cleared
3 40 (7.49%) SC Cleared
4 33 (6.18%) DV Cleared
5 19 (3.56%) CCNA
5 19 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (3.18%) Master's Degree
7 16 (3.00%) CCNP
8 12 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.69%) PhD
10 8 (1.50%) MCSA
11 6 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (0.94%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.75%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.75%) HND
13 4 (0.75%) MCP
14 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.37%) HNC
14 2 (0.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.43%) QA
2 27 (5.06%) SLA
3 9 (1.69%) MISRA
4 7 (1.31%) MISRA C
5 6 (1.12%) ISO 13485
6 5 (0.94%) Automotive SPICE
6 5 (0.94%) AUTOSAR
6 5 (0.94%) IEC 62304
7 4 (0.75%) JTAG
8 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.37%) DO-254
9 2 (0.37%) GAMP
9 2 (0.37%) GxP
9 2 (0.37%) NIST
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 15765
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 26262
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 205 (38.39%) Embedded Firmware
2 35 (6.55%) Active Directory
3 21 (3.93%) Docker
4 16 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (2.81%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.31%) vSphere
8 6 (1.12%) NFS
9 4 (0.75%) pfSense
9 4 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.19%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 18 (3.37%) SCCM
2 12 (2.25%) WSUS
3 9 (1.69%) Ansible
3 9 (1.69%) Sysprep
4 6 (1.12%) Terraform
5 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.75%) Kubernetes
7 3 (0.56%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.37%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.37%) SCOM
9 1 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.19%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.19%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.19%) SELinux
Vendors
1 57 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.18%) EMC
3 22 (4.12%) Dell
4 20 (3.75%) HP
4 20 (3.75%) VMware
5 18 (3.37%) Veeam
6 16 (3.00%) NetApp
7 15 (2.81%) Cisco
7 15 (2.81%) IBM
8 13 (2.43%) Palo Alto
9 10 (1.87%) Aruba
10 8 (1.50%) Juniper
10 8 (1.50%) SAP
11 7 (1.31%) Google
12 6 (1.12%) Citrix
12 6 (1.12%) Extreme Networks
12 6 (1.12%) Fortinet
13 5 (0.94%) Altera
13 5 (0.94%) Intel
14 4 (0.75%) Red Hat