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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 310 555
Rank change year-on-year -107 +245 +29
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 287 908 504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.92% 0.48%
As % of the System Software category 5.33% 7.40% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 215 677 351
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £47,750
% change year-on-year +4.76% +9.95% -9.05%

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 5,388 12,269 15,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.33% 12.48% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,933 9,741 10,518
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £27,915
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025. 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 -91 232 £55,000 +4.76% 360
England -119 226 £53,688 +2.26% 384
Work from Home +28 120 £60,000 +14.29% 165
South West +64 39 £70,000 +27.27% 53
South East -81 39 £62,500 +25.00% 113
North of England +10 38 £47,683 -9.18% 51
East of England -11 38 £52,000 -7.96% 77
Midlands -18 38 £50,000 -4.76% 27
London +72 30 £70,000 +24.44% 69
North West -1 28 £47,683 -13.30% 24
Scotland +55 23 £62,500 +19.05% 30
West Midlands +2 21 £53,500 -13.01% 20
East Midlands +16 17 £47,500 -5.00% 7
Wales +32 16 £70,000 +16.67% 17
Yorkshire +36 6 £62,500 +47.06% 21
North East +46 4 £61,000 +10.91% 7
Northern Ireland +20 1 - - 2

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 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.05%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 28 (9.76%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.74%) Simulink
3 3 (1.05%) GNU Octave
4 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.70%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (10.80%) Azure
2 13 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (2.79%) AWS
4 5 (1.74%) Entra ID
4 5 (1.74%) GitHub
5 3 (1.05%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.35%) IaaS
6 1 (0.35%) PaaS
6 1 (0.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (12.54%) TCP/IP
2 30 (10.45%) Firewall
2 30 (10.45%) Modbus
2 30 (10.45%) Wireless
3 25 (8.71%) WAN
4 22 (7.67%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (7.32%) Network Security
6 18 (6.27%) SD-WAN
7 17 (5.92%) VPN
8 16 (5.57%) MQTT
9 15 (5.23%) Bluetooth
9 15 (5.23%) DNS
10 14 (4.88%) ZigBee
11 13 (4.53%) Internet
12 12 (4.18%) LAN
12 12 (4.18%) RS-232
13 10 (3.48%) DHCP
14 9 (3.14%) Ethernet
14 9 (3.14%) VLAN
15 8 (2.79%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (1.74%) RDBMS
1 5 (1.74%) Relational Database
2 2 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (5.57%) Git
1 16 (5.57%) JIRA
2 7 (2.44%) Subversion
3 6 (2.09%) Eclipse
4 3 (1.05%) GDB
5 1 (0.35%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.35%) Appium
5 1 (0.35%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.35%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.35%) Selenium
5 1 (0.35%) TestRail
5 1 (0.35%) Xcode
5 1 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 108 (37.63%) Electronics
2 102 (35.54%) Social Skills
3 29 (10.10%) Finance
4 27 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.71%) Aviation
6 20 (6.97%) Manufacturing
7 14 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.79%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.09%) Wearables
11 5 (1.74%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.74%) Automotive
12 4 (1.39%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.05%) Banking
13 3 (1.05%) Marketing
13 3 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.05%) Police
14 1 (0.35%) Advertising
14 1 (0.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 112 (39.02%) Senior
2 60 (20.91%) Embedded Engineer
3 47 (16.38%) Electronics Engineer
4 42 (14.63%) Software Engineer
5 40 (13.94%) Firmware Engineer
6 38 (13.24%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 37 (12.89%) Senior Electronics Engineer
8 36 (12.54%) Design Engineer
9 32 (11.15%) Electronics Design Engineer
10 31 (10.80%) Lead
11 29 (10.10%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 28 (9.76%) Senior Software Engineer
13 24 (8.36%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
13 24 (8.36%) Network Engineer
13 24 (8.36%) Senior Design Engineer
14 23 (8.01%) FPGA Engineer
14 23 (8.01%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
15 22 (7.67%) Radar Engineer
15 22 (7.67%) Senior Firmware Engineer
16 20 (6.97%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.62%) .NET
2 4 (1.39%) REST
3 3 (1.05%) OpenCL
3 3 (1.05%) OpenEmbedded
3 3 (1.05%) SAML
3 3 (1.05%) Yocto
4 2 (0.70%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.70%) Middleware
5 1 (0.35%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.35%) HTML
5 1 (0.35%) JSON
5 1 (0.35%) Laravel
5 1 (0.35%) RESTful
5 1 (0.35%) Vue
5 1 (0.35%) WebdriverIO
5 1 (0.35%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 53 (18.47%) FPGA
2 42 (14.63%) VHDL
3 37 (12.89%) Embedded Systems
4 27 (9.41%) Device Driver
5 23 (8.01%) Optoelectronics
6 22 (7.67%) Analogue Electronics
7 18 (6.27%) IoT
8 15 (5.23%) Data Centre
8 15 (5.23%) Verilog
9 13 (4.53%) MicroBlaze
9 13 (4.53%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (4.18%) GNSS
11 11 (3.83%) Life Science
12 10 (3.48%) Algorithms
13 9 (3.14%) Product Ownership
14 8 (2.79%) ARM Cortex
14 8 (2.79%) Satnav
15 5 (1.74%) Management Information System
15 5 (1.74%) Smart Energy
16 4 (1.39%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 67 (23.34%) Linux
2 64 (22.30%) Windows
3 19 (6.62%) Embedded Linux
4 17 (5.92%) Unix
5 15 (5.23%) Windows Server
6 9 (3.14%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (1.74%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.39%) Android
8 4 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.35%) CentOS
9 1 (0.35%) Rocky
9 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.35%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (23.34%) Software Engineering
3 47 (16.38%) Prototyping
3 47 (16.38%) Schematic Capture
4 40 (13.94%) Mentoring
5 31 (10.80%) Requirements Analysis
6 29 (10.10%) Agile
7 26 (9.06%) FPGA Design
8 23 (8.01%) Signal Processing
8 23 (8.01%) Stress Analysis
9 22 (7.67%) Safety Engineering
9 22 (7.67%) Systems Engineering
10 19 (6.62%) Change Management
10 19 (6.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (6.27%) Validation
12 17 (5.92%) Collaborative Working
13 15 (5.23%) Digital Signal Processing
13 15 (5.23%) Scrum
13 15 (5.23%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (5.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 116 (40.42%) C
2 85 (29.62%) C++
3 32 (11.15%) C#
4 26 (9.06%) Python
5 18 (6.27%) MATLAB
6 10 (3.48%) SQL
7 9 (3.14%) VB
8 8 (2.79%) Perl
8 8 (2.79%) Tcl
9 7 (2.44%) Embedded C
9 7 (2.44%) Java
9 7 (2.44%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.09%) Ada
10 6 (2.09%) Embedded C++
11 5 (1.74%) Assembly Language
12 3 (1.05%) Bash
13 2 (0.70%) JavaScript
14 1 (0.35%) PHP
14 1 (0.35%) R
14 1 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 90 (31.36%) Degree
2 22 (7.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 22 (7.67%) CEH
3 15 (5.23%) Security Cleared
4 11 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (3.48%) CCNP
6 9 (3.14%) CCNA
6 9 (3.14%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.74%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.05%) MCSA
8 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.05%) PhD
9 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.70%) MCP
9 2 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.35%) MCITP
10 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.01%) DO-254
2 10 (3.48%) QA
3 5 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.74%) SLA
4 4 (1.39%) AUTOSAR
5 3 (1.05%) Automotive SPICE
5 3 (1.05%) JTAG
6 2 (0.70%) MISRA
6 2 (0.70%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 92 (32.06%) Embedded Firmware
2 13 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.09%) BitLocker
4 4 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.70%) vSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (3.48%) WSUS
2 9 (3.14%) SCCM
3 4 (1.39%) Ansible
4 3 (1.05%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (1.05%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.70%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.70%) vRealize
5 2 (0.70%) VxRail
6 1 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.01%) Cisco
3 16 (5.57%) Xilinx
4 14 (4.88%) EMC
5 13 (4.53%) CheckPoint
5 13 (4.53%) Meraki
6 12 (4.18%) Fortinet
6 12 (4.18%) SolarWinds
7 11 (3.83%) HP
8 10 (3.48%) VMware
9 9 (3.14%) Dell
10 8 (2.79%) Altera
10 8 (2.79%) Apple
10 8 (2.79%) Green Hills
11 7 (2.44%) Infoblox
12 6 (2.09%) MobileIron
12 6 (2.09%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.74%) Cadence
13 5 (1.74%) McAfee
14 4 (1.39%) Aruba