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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 305 539
Rank change year-on-year -114 +234 +83
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 313 1,006 460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.90% 0.50%
As % of the System Software category 4.91% 8.29% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 223 728 339
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,375 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,875 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

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 6,369 12,137 14,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.31% 10.86% 15.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,687 9,231 9,508
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £94,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -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 21 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Firmware in the UK

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 Firmware within the UK over the 6 months to 21 June 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 -116 251 £52,500 - 829
England -152 244 £50,000 -4.76% 969
Work from Home -38 121 £52,500 - 440
South East -68 87 £65,000 +30.00% 209
East of England -31 39 £60,000 +9.09% 173
Midlands +1 35 £47,500 -9.52% 76
North of England -26 35 £47,683 -9.18% 98
London +53 27 £80,000 +39.13% 264
North West -24 26 £47,683 -13.30% 52
Scotland +32 21 £67,500 +28.57% 104
South West +31 18 £52,500 -17.65% 128
West Midlands +24 18 £44,750 -25.42% 53
East Midlands -5 17 £47,500 -5.00% 23
Wales +33 14 £70,000 +16.67% 33
Yorkshire +33 9 £46,000 -3.16% 34
Northern Ireland +27 2 £90,000 +221.43% 18

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 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.96%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (6.07%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.60%) Simulink
3 2 (0.64%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.32%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 8 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 31 (9.90%) Azure
2 13 (4.15%) AWS
2 13 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (1.60%) AWS Direct Connect
3 5 (1.60%) Entra ID
4 4 (1.28%) GCP
5 2 (0.64%) AWS IoT
5 2 (0.64%) Firebase
6 1 (0.32%) Amazon Alexa
6 1 (0.32%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.32%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.32%) BigCommerce
6 1 (0.32%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 52 (16.61%) Software-Defined Radio
2 38 (12.14%) Wireless
3 34 (10.86%) TCP/IP
4 32 (10.22%) Modbus
5 30 (9.58%) Firewall
6 26 (8.31%) Wi-Fi
7 21 (6.71%) WAN
8 20 (6.39%) Network Security
9 19 (6.07%) MQTT
10 17 (5.43%) VPN
11 16 (5.11%) DHCP
11 16 (5.11%) DNS
12 12 (3.83%) Cisco Firepower
12 12 (3.83%) SD-WAN
12 12 (3.83%) VLAN
13 11 (3.51%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (3.51%) LAN
14 10 (3.19%) NX-OS
14 10 (3.19%) RS-485
15 9 (2.88%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (1.60%) RDBMS
1 5 (1.60%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.32%) MySQL
2 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (6.71%) JIRA
2 19 (6.07%) Git
3 7 (2.24%) Subversion
4 3 (0.96%) GDB
5 2 (0.64%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.32%) Appium
6 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.32%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.32%) TestRail
6 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 90 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 84 (26.84%) Electronics
3 55 (17.57%) Finance
4 23 (7.35%) Aviation
5 22 (7.03%) Manufacturing
6 15 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.83%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.51%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.24%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.92%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.92%) Marketing
11 5 (1.60%) Automotive
11 5 (1.60%) Wearables
12 4 (1.28%) Banking
13 3 (0.96%) Law
13 3 (0.96%) Military
13 3 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 73 (23.32%) Senior
2 67 (21.41%) Embedded Engineer
3 51 (16.29%) Software Engineer
4 44 (14.06%) Firmware Engineer
5 43 (13.74%) Electronics Engineer
6 40 (12.78%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 35 (11.18%) Lead
8 29 (9.27%) Senior Electronics Engineer
8 29 (9.27%) Systems Engineer
9 28 (8.95%) Design Engineer
10 26 (8.31%) Network Engineer
11 25 (7.99%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
11 25 (7.99%) Radio Engineer
12 22 (7.03%) Radar Engineer
12 22 (7.03%) Senior Firmware Engineer
13 21 (6.71%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 20 (6.39%) Electronics Design Engineer
15 19 (6.07%) FPGA Engineer
16 15 (4.79%) Analyst
17 14 (4.47%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.83%) .NET
2 5 (1.60%) REST
3 3 (0.96%) Middleware
3 3 (0.96%) OpenCL
3 3 (0.96%) OpenEmbedded
3 3 (0.96%) Yocto
4 2 (0.64%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.64%) HTML
4 2 (0.64%) Laravel
4 2 (0.64%) React
5 1 (0.32%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.32%) CSS
5 1 (0.32%) JSON
5 1 (0.32%) React Native
5 1 (0.32%) RESTful
5 1 (0.32%) SAML
5 1 (0.32%) Vue
5 1 (0.32%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 64 (20.45%) FPGA
2 51 (16.29%) Embedded Systems
3 33 (10.54%) VHDL
4 27 (8.63%) MicroBlaze
5 26 (8.31%) Device Driver
5 26 (8.31%) e-Learning
6 25 (7.99%) IoT
7 23 (7.35%) Analogue Electronics
7 23 (7.35%) RISC-V
8 18 (5.75%) Verilog
9 17 (5.43%) Data Centre
10 11 (3.51%) Algorithms
10 11 (3.51%) Management Information System
10 11 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (2.88%) Optoelectronics
12 7 (2.24%) ARM Cortex
13 6 (1.92%) CAN bus
13 6 (1.92%) Product Ownership
14 5 (1.60%) Driving Licence
14 5 (1.60%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 70 (22.36%) Linux
2 56 (17.89%) Windows
3 39 (12.46%) Embedded Linux
4 19 (6.07%) Unix
5 15 (4.79%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.60%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.28%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (0.96%) Android
9 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.32%) CentOS
10 1 (0.32%) Rocky
10 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.32%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (27.80%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (24.60%) Software Engineering
3 60 (19.17%) Signal Processing
4 58 (18.53%) Digital Signal Processing
5 52 (16.61%) Innovative Thinking
6 51 (16.29%) Agile
7 40 (12.78%) Mentoring
8 32 (10.22%) Physics
9 27 (8.63%) Schematic Capture
10 26 (8.31%) Prototyping
10 26 (8.31%) Systems Engineering
11 25 (7.99%) Change Management
12 23 (7.35%) Safety Engineering
12 23 (7.35%) Validation
13 20 (6.39%) FPGA Design
14 18 (5.75%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (5.43%) Verification and Validation
16 16 (5.11%) Collaborative Working
16 16 (5.11%) Customer Service
17 15 (4.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 106 (33.87%) C
2 87 (27.80%) C++
3 32 (10.22%) MATLAB
4 23 (7.35%) C#
5 20 (6.39%) Python
6 11 (3.51%) Embedded C
7 8 (2.56%) SQL
8 6 (1.92%) Ada
8 6 (1.92%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.60%) Assembly Language
9 5 (1.60%) Bash
10 3 (0.96%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.64%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.64%) Java
11 2 (0.64%) PHP
12 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.32%) VB
12 1 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 74 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 72 (23.00%) Degree
3 62 (19.81%) SC Cleared
4 22 (7.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (7.03%) CEH
5 16 (5.11%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.60%) CCNA
8 4 (1.28%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.28%) PhD
9 3 (0.96%) CCNP
9 3 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.64%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.64%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.64%) HNC
10 2 (0.64%) HND
10 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.32%) MCITP
11 1 (0.32%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.35%) DO-254
2 9 (2.88%) SLA
3 5 (1.60%) JTAG
3 5 (1.60%) QA
4 4 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 1 (0.32%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.32%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.32%) HAZOP
5 1 (0.32%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.32%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.32%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.32%) MISRA
5 1 (0.32%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 114 (36.42%) Embedded Firmware
2 11 (3.51%) BitLocker
3 10 (3.19%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.96%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.32%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.32%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 15 (4.79%) SCCM
2 3 (0.96%) Ansible
2 3 (0.96%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.96%) vCenter Server
3 2 (0.64%) FortiGate
3 2 (0.64%) Functional Safety
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.64%) WSUS
4 1 (0.32%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (0.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (8.95%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.31%) Cisco
3 18 (5.75%) Fortinet
4 14 (4.47%) CheckPoint
4 14 (4.47%) HP
5 13 (4.15%) Apple
5 13 (4.15%) SolarWinds
6 11 (3.51%) Meraki
6 11 (3.51%) MobileIron
7 10 (3.19%) EMC
7 10 (3.19%) VMware
8 9 (2.88%) Infoblox
8 9 (2.88%) Juniper
9 8 (2.56%) McAfee
9 8 (2.56%) Remedy
10 6 (1.92%) Oracle
11 5 (1.60%) Dell
11 5 (1.60%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.60%) SAP
11 5 (1.60%) Xilinx