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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 295 330
Rank change year-on-year -43 +35 +51
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 116 142 189
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.86% 0.75%
As % of the System Software category 6.33% 6.52% 6.45%
Number of salaries quoted 83 85 162
10th Percentile £39,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £70,625 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £76,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 1,833 2,179 2,930
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.23% 13.14% 11.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,378 1,274 2,164
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £86,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.34%

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 2 August 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 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (5.17%) Simulink
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (12.93%) Azure
2 7 (6.03%) AWS
3 3 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (2.59%) Amazon S3
3 3 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (2.59%) SaaS
3 3 (2.59%) Serverless
4 2 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (17.24%) Bluetooth
1 20 (17.24%) Wireless
2 17 (14.66%) Firewall
3 16 (13.79%) Modbus
4 10 (8.62%) RS-232
4 10 (8.62%) RS-485
5 9 (7.76%) Profibus
5 9 (7.76%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (7.76%) ZigBee
6 7 (6.03%) LTE
7 5 (4.31%) WAN
8 4 (3.45%) VLAN
9 3 (2.59%) LAN
9 3 (2.59%) TCP/IP
9 3 (2.59%) VPN
10 2 (1.72%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (1.72%) RFID
10 2 (1.72%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.86%) J1939
11 1 (0.86%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.59%) JIRA
1 3 (2.59%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.72%) Git
2 2 (1.72%) LabVIEW
2 2 (1.72%) MLflow
2 2 (1.72%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (1.72%) Subversion
2 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (35.34%) Electronics
2 31 (26.72%) Social Skills
3 29 (25.00%) Finance
4 22 (18.97%) Aerospace
4 22 (18.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (16.38%) Manufacturing
6 9 (7.76%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.31%) Military
9 3 (2.59%) Automotive
9 3 (2.59%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.72%) Wearables
11 1 (0.86%) Cyber-Physical System
11 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.86%) Marketing
11 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (33.62%) Software Engineer
2 29 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 27 (23.28%) Senior
4 25 (21.55%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 20 (17.24%) Lead
6 12 (10.34%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (7.76%) Consultant
7 9 (7.76%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 9 (7.76%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 9 (7.76%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) Electronics Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) Security Consultant
8 6 (5.17%) Senior Consultant
8 6 (5.17%) Senior Security Consultant
9 5 (4.31%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Software Manager
9 5 (4.31%) Software Team Leader
9 5 (4.31%) Team Leader
10 4 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.31%) Node.js
1 5 (4.31%) React
2 2 (1.72%) LangChain
2 2 (1.72%) React Native
2 2 (1.72%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.86%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 29 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
2 16 (13.79%) FPGA
3 14 (12.07%) Data Centre
4 11 (9.48%) Enterprise Storage
4 11 (9.48%) IoT
4 11 (9.48%) iSeries
4 11 (9.48%) Raspberry Pi
4 11 (9.48%) Replication
5 9 (7.76%) Algorithms
6 7 (6.03%) Analogue Electronics
7 6 (5.17%) VHDL
8 5 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (4.31%) Operational Technology
9 4 (3.45%) Mobile App
9 4 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (3.45%) Verilog
10 3 (2.59%) Cloud Native
10 3 (2.59%) Management Information System
10 3 (2.59%) PCIe
10 3 (2.59%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.48%) FreeRTOS
2 10 (8.62%) Linux
3 5 (4.31%) Windows
4 3 (2.59%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (2.59%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.72%) Android
5 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.86%) Unix
6 1 (0.86%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (47.41%) Software Engineering
2 23 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (18.10%) Mentoring
4 18 (15.52%) Validation
5 15 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (12.07%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (12.07%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (11.21%) Root Cause Analysis
8 12 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (10.34%) TDD
9 11 (9.48%) Decision-Making
9 11 (9.48%) Unit Testing
10 10 (8.62%) Project Delivery
11 9 (7.76%) Agile
11 9 (7.76%) DevOps
11 9 (7.76%) Systems Engineering
12 8 (6.90%) Code Quality
12 8 (6.90%) Configuration Management
12 8 (6.90%) Software Architecture
12 8 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (31.03%) C
2 22 (18.97%) C++
2 22 (18.97%) Python
3 10 (8.62%) Embedded C
4 8 (6.90%) MATLAB
5 5 (4.31%) SystemVerilog
6 3 (2.59%) Go
6 3 (2.59%) PHP
6 3 (2.59%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.72%) Embedded C++
7 2 (1.72%) SQL
8 1 (0.86%) Ada
8 1 (0.86%) C#
8 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (26.72%) Degree
2 30 (25.86%) Security Cleared
3 23 (19.83%) SC Cleared
4 22 (18.97%) DV Cleared
5 16 (13.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (5.17%) Master's Degree
7 5 (4.31%) PhD
8 3 (2.59%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (2.59%) HND
9 2 (1.72%) HNC
10 1 (0.86%) CCNA
10 1 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.93%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.31%) QA
3 4 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.59%) ISO 9001
4 3 (2.59%) NCSC
4 3 (2.59%) NIST
4 3 (2.59%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.72%) JTAG
6 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.86%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.86%) GDPR
6 1 (0.86%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 34 (29.31%) Embedded Firmware
2 15 (12.93%) Hyper-V
3 14 (12.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.45%) Docker
5 2 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.45%) Puppet
1 4 (3.45%) Terraform
2 1 (0.86%) Ansible
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (14.66%) EMC
1 17 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.07%) VMware
3 11 (9.48%) Commvault
3 11 (9.48%) HP
3 11 (9.48%) IBM
3 11 (9.48%) Veeam
4 9 (7.76%) Cisco
5 5 (4.31%) Dell
6 4 (3.45%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.59%) Siemens
7 3 (2.59%) Xilinx
8 2 (1.72%) Adobe
8 2 (1.72%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.72%) Meraki
9 1 (0.86%) Altera
9 1 (0.86%) ConnectWise
9 1 (0.86%) Draytek