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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 292 335
Rank change year-on-year -43 +43 +23
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 130 145 175
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.57% 0.88% 0.70%
As % of the System Software category 6.91% 6.74% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 88 86 149
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,750 £52,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% -6.25% -2.61%
75th Percentile £70,313 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £77,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% +6.80%

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 1,881 2,152 2,893
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.30% 13.05% 11.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 1,250 2,109
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,725 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £86,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -10.71%

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 8 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 (1.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (5.38%) Simulink
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (11.54%) Azure
2 7 (5.38%) AWS
3 3 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (2.31%) Amazon S3
3 3 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (2.31%) SaaS
3 3 (2.31%) Serverless
4 2 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.77%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (15.38%) Bluetooth
1 20 (15.38%) Wireless
2 17 (13.08%) Firewall
3 16 (12.31%) Modbus
4 10 (7.69%) RS-232
4 10 (7.69%) RS-485
4 10 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (6.92%) Profibus
5 9 (6.92%) ZigBee
6 7 (5.38%) LTE
7 6 (4.62%) WAN
8 4 (3.08%) LAN
8 4 (3.08%) VLAN
9 3 (2.31%) TCP/IP
9 3 (2.31%) VPN
10 2 (1.54%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (1.54%) RFID
10 2 (1.54%) SAN
10 2 (1.54%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.77%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.31%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (2.31%) JIRA
3 2 (1.54%) Git
3 2 (1.54%) LabVIEW
3 2 (1.54%) MLflow
3 2 (1.54%) Rational Rhapsody
3 2 (1.54%) Subversion
3 2 (1.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (36.92%) Electronics
2 40 (30.77%) Finance
3 36 (27.69%) Social Skills
4 32 (24.62%) Aerospace
5 31 (23.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (15.38%) Manufacturing
7 9 (6.92%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (5.38%) Military
10 5 (3.85%) Telecoms
11 3 (2.31%) Automotive
12 2 (1.54%) Wearables
13 1 (0.77%) Cyber-Physical System
13 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.77%) Marketing
13 1 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 30 (23.08%) Embedded Engineer
2 30 (23.08%) Senior
3 25 (19.23%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 23 (17.69%) Lead
5 12 (9.23%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (8.46%) Consultant
6 11 (8.46%) Systems Engineer
7 9 (6.92%) Electronics Engineer
7 9 (6.92%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 9 (6.92%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 8 (6.15%) Security Consultant
8 8 (6.15%) Senior Consultant
8 8 (6.15%) Senior Security Consultant
9 6 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Software Manager
9 6 (4.62%) Software Team Leader
9 6 (4.62%) Team Leader
10 5 (3.85%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.85%) Node.js
1 5 (3.85%) React
2 2 (1.54%) LangChain
2 2 (1.54%) React Native
2 2 (1.54%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.77%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 30 (23.08%) Embedded Systems
2 20 (15.38%) FPGA
3 14 (10.77%) Data Centre
4 11 (8.46%) Enterprise Storage
4 11 (8.46%) IoT
4 11 (8.46%) iSeries
4 11 (8.46%) Raspberry Pi
4 11 (8.46%) Replication
5 10 (7.69%) Algorithms
6 9 (6.92%) Analogue Electronics
7 8 (6.15%) VHDL
8 7 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (4.62%) Operational Technology
9 6 (4.62%) Verilog
10 5 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (3.08%) Management Information System
11 4 (3.08%) Mobile App
11 4 (3.08%) PCIe
12 3 (2.31%) Cloud Native
12 3 (2.31%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.46%) FreeRTOS
2 10 (7.69%) Linux
3 5 (3.85%) Windows
4 3 (2.31%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.54%) Android
5 2 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.77%) Unix
6 1 (0.77%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (44.62%) Software Engineering
2 28 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (19.23%) Mentoring
4 20 (15.38%) Validation
5 17 (13.08%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (10.77%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (10.77%) Root Cause Analysis
9 13 (10.00%) Decision-Making
10 12 (9.23%) Configuration Management
10 12 (9.23%) TDD
11 11 (8.46%) Agile
11 11 (8.46%) Project Delivery
11 11 (8.46%) Systems Engineering
11 11 (8.46%) Unit Testing
12 10 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (6.92%) DevOps
13 9 (6.92%) Open Source
13 9 (6.92%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 37 (28.46%) C
2 23 (17.69%) Python
3 22 (16.92%) C++
4 10 (7.69%) Embedded C
4 10 (7.69%) MATLAB
5 7 (5.38%) SystemVerilog
6 3 (2.31%) Go
6 3 (2.31%) PHP
6 3 (2.31%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.54%) Embedded C++
7 2 (1.54%) SQL
8 1 (0.77%) Ada
8 1 (0.77%) C#
8 1 (0.77%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.77%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (30.77%) Degree
2 39 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 31 (23.85%) SC Cleared
4 30 (23.08%) DV Cleared
5 24 (18.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (5.38%) Master's Degree
7 6 (4.62%) PhD
8 5 (3.85%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (2.31%) HND
10 2 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.54%) HNC
11 1 (0.77%) CCNA
11 1 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.69%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.85%) QA
3 4 (3.08%) NCSC
3 4 (3.08%) NIST
3 4 (3.08%) NIST 800
4 3 (2.31%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.54%) GDPR
5 2 (1.54%) JTAG
6 1 (0.77%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.77%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 36 (27.69%) Embedded Firmware
2 16 (12.31%) Hyper-V
3 14 (10.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.08%) Docker
5 2 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.08%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.08%) Puppet
1 4 (3.08%) Terraform
2 1 (0.77%) Ansible
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (13.85%) EMC
2 17 (13.08%) Microsoft
3 14 (10.77%) VMware
4 11 (8.46%) Commvault
4 11 (8.46%) HP
4 11 (8.46%) IBM
4 11 (8.46%) Veeam
5 9 (6.92%) Cisco
6 6 (4.62%) Dell
7 4 (3.08%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.08%) Siemens
7 4 (3.08%) Xilinx
8 2 (1.54%) Adobe
8 2 (1.54%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.54%) Meraki
9 1 (0.77%) Altera
9 1 (0.77%) ConnectWise
9 1 (0.77%) Draytek