Hybrid/Remote Firmware Job Trends

Firmware
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 300 305
Rank change year-on-year -37 +5 +112
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 92 138 300
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.43% 0.84% 0.93%
As % of the System Software category 5.23% 6.12% 7.74%
Number of salaries quoted 78 84 250
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,000 £40,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.94% -1.43% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £89,250 £70,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% +5.00%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Firmware falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,760 2,255 3,877
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.29% 13.69% 11.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,325 1,359 3,010
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,320 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% +0.58% -9.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,506 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.91%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firmware and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Firmware job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Firmware
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Firmware

Firmware
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Firmware over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Firmware salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Simulink
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.48%) Azure
2 6 (6.52%) AWS
3 3 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (3.26%) Amazon S3
3 3 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.26%) SaaS
3 3 (3.26%) Serverless
4 1 (1.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (23.91%) Bluetooth
1 22 (23.91%) Wireless
2 20 (21.74%) Firewall
3 18 (19.57%) Modbus
4 12 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (10.87%) RS-232
5 10 (10.87%) RS-485
6 9 (9.78%) LTE
6 9 (9.78%) Profibus
6 9 (9.78%) ZigBee
7 6 (6.52%) WAN
8 5 (5.43%) VLAN
8 5 (5.43%) VPN
9 4 (4.35%) TCP/IP
10 3 (3.26%) LAN
11 2 (2.17%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (2.17%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (2.17%) DNS
11 2 (2.17%) SD-WAN
11 2 (2.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (6.52%) Git
1 6 (6.52%) Subversion
2 4 (4.35%) Eclipse
3 2 (2.17%) JIRA
3 2 (2.17%) LabVIEW
3 2 (2.17%) MLflow
3 2 (2.17%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (2.17%) Rational Rhapsody
3 2 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (35.87%) Electronics
2 25 (27.17%) Social Skills
3 18 (19.57%) Manufacturing
4 9 (9.78%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (8.70%) Finance
6 3 (3.26%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.26%) Automotive
7 2 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.17%) Military
7 2 (2.17%) Wearables
8 1 (1.09%) Cyber-Physical System
8 1 (1.09%) Marketing
8 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (36.96%) Software Engineer
2 26 (28.26%) Embedded Engineer
3 24 (26.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 20 (21.74%) Senior
5 11 (11.96%) Lead
5 11 (11.96%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (9.78%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 9 (9.78%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Electronics Engineer
11 3 (3.26%) Firmware Engineer
11 3 (3.26%) Hardware Engineer
11 3 (3.26%) Head of Software Engineering
11 3 (3.26%) Linux Administrator
11 3 (3.26%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 3 (3.26%) Software Manager
11 3 (3.26%) Software Team Leader
11 3 (3.26%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.35%) Node.js
1 4 (4.35%) React
2 2 (2.17%) LangChain
2 2 (2.17%) React Native
2 2 (2.17%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.09%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 27 (29.35%) Embedded Systems
2 15 (16.30%) Data Centre
3 13 (14.13%) Raspberry Pi
4 11 (11.96%) Enterprise Storage
4 11 (11.96%) IoT
4 11 (11.96%) iSeries
4 11 (11.96%) Replication
5 8 (8.70%) Algorithms
6 7 (7.61%) FPGA
7 6 (6.52%) Analogue Electronics
8 4 (4.35%) Mobile App
9 3 (3.26%) Cloud Native
10 2 (2.17%) CCTV
10 2 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (2.17%) Driving Licence
10 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (2.17%) Operational Technology
10 2 (2.17%) PCIe
10 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
10 2 (2.17%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.96%) FreeRTOS
2 8 (8.70%) Linux
3 6 (6.52%) Windows
4 4 (4.35%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.26%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (2.17%) Android
6 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (48.91%) Software Engineering
2 16 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
2 16 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (16.30%) Validation
4 14 (15.22%) Mentoring
5 13 (14.13%) Root Cause Analysis
6 12 (13.04%) TDD
7 11 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (11.96%) Unit Testing
8 8 (8.70%) DevOps
8 8 (8.70%) Project Delivery
9 7 (7.61%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (7.61%) Decision-Making
9 7 (7.61%) Signal Processing
10 6 (6.52%) AI
10 6 (6.52%) Code Quality
10 6 (6.52%) Data Analysis
10 6 (6.52%) Digital Signal Processing
11 5 (5.43%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 34 (36.96%) C
2 22 (23.91%) Python
3 18 (19.57%) C++
4 10 (10.87%) Embedded C
5 4 (4.35%) MATLAB
6 3 (3.26%) PHP
7 2 (2.17%) Go
7 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.17%) SQL
7 2 (2.17%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.09%) C#
8 1 (1.09%) Embedded C++
8 1 (1.09%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (15.22%) Degree
2 10 (10.87%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.61%) DV Cleared
3 7 (7.61%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) HND
5 2 (2.17%) HNC
5 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.09%) CCNA
6 1 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.43%) QA
2 3 (3.26%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.17%) JTAG
4 1 (1.09%) DO-178B
4 1 (1.09%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 31 (33.70%) Embedded Firmware
2 15 (16.30%) Hyper-V
2 15 (16.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.35%) Docker
4 3 (3.26%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 4 (4.35%) Puppet
2 3 (3.26%) Terraform
3 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.09%) Ansible
4 1 (1.09%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 19 (20.65%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.39%) EMC
3 15 (16.30%) VMware
4 11 (11.96%) Cisco
4 11 (11.96%) Commvault
4 11 (11.96%) HP
4 11 (11.96%) IBM
4 11 (11.96%) Veeam
5 5 (5.43%) Dell
5 5 (5.43%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.35%) Atmel
6 4 (4.35%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.26%) Meraki
8 2 (2.17%) Adobe
8 2 (2.17%) ConnectWise
8 2 (2.17%) Draytek
9 1 (1.09%) CheckPoint