Firmware Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Firmware
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 318 411
Rank change year-on-year -25 +93 +162
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 131 314 218
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.64% 0.91% 0.61%
As % of the System Software category 4.76% 7.64% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 77 257 146
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £69,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £79,375
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +5.00% -9.09%

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 2,751 4,108 5,141
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.50% 11.91% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,356 3,112 4,120
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,938 £40,975 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £99,375 £85,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% -

Firmware
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Firmware trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Firmware
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Firmware.

Firmware salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Firmware
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Firmware over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Firmware salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (7.63%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.82%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (4.58%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (6.87%) AWS
2 7 (5.34%) Azure
3 5 (3.82%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 35 (26.72%) Wireless
2 29 (22.14%) Software-Defined Radio
3 21 (16.03%) Wi-Fi
4 20 (15.27%) Firewall
5 17 (12.98%) TCP/IP
6 15 (11.45%) WAN
7 13 (9.92%) Modbus
8 11 (8.40%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (8.40%) VPN
9 10 (7.63%) LAN
9 10 (7.63%) SD-WAN
10 9 (6.87%) Cisco Firepower
11 8 (6.11%) DNS
11 8 (6.11%) WLAN
12 7 (5.34%) NX-OS
13 6 (4.58%) BGP
13 6 (4.58%) Internet
13 6 (4.58%) OSPF
14 5 (3.82%) IPsec
14 5 (3.82%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 11 (8.40%) Git
2 6 (4.58%) Subversion
3 3 (2.29%) GDB
4 2 (1.53%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.76%) Appium
5 1 (0.76%) Postman
5 1 (0.76%) TestRail
5 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (37.40%) Finance
2 30 (22.90%) Electronics
3 21 (16.03%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (8.40%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (6.11%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.82%) Banking
8 4 (3.05%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.29%) Military
9 3 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.53%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.53%) Retail
10 2 (1.53%) Wearables
11 1 (0.76%) Advertising
11 1 (0.76%) Automotive
11 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Law
11 1 (0.76%) Marketing
11 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 49 (37.40%) Embedded Engineer
2 37 (28.24%) Senior
3 34 (25.95%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 34 (25.95%) Software Engineer
4 25 (19.08%) Firmware Engineer
5 24 (18.32%) Electronics Engineer
6 16 (12.21%) Senior Firmware Engineer
7 15 (11.45%) Senior Electronics Engineer
8 14 (10.69%) Design Engineer
8 14 (10.69%) Network Engineer
9 13 (9.92%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
9 13 (9.92%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 12 (9.16%) Electronics Design Engineer
11 10 (7.63%) FPGA Engineer
11 10 (7.63%) Lead
12 9 (6.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (6.87%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (6.87%) Network Operations Engineer
12 9 (6.87%) Operations Engineer
12 9 (6.87%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.29%) OpenEmbedded
1 3 (2.29%) REST
1 3 (2.29%) Yocto
2 2 (1.53%) GraphQL
2 2 (1.53%) Middleware
3 1 (0.76%) .NET
3 1 (0.76%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.76%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (0.76%) Node.js
3 1 (0.76%) SAML
3 1 (0.76%) WSH
3 1 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (27.48%) Embedded Systems
2 30 (22.90%) MicroBlaze
3 29 (22.14%) e-Learning
4 26 (19.85%) FPGA
4 26 (19.85%) RISC-V
5 12 (9.16%) VHDL
6 10 (7.63%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (6.87%) Verilog
8 8 (6.11%) Analogue Electronics
8 8 (6.11%) Data Centre
8 8 (6.11%) Device Driver
8 8 (6.11%) Optoelectronics
9 6 (4.58%) Management Information System
9 6 (4.58%) Product Ownership
10 4 (3.05%) Algorithms
10 4 (3.05%) GNSS
10 4 (3.05%) IoT
10 4 (3.05%) Self-Driving Car
10 4 (3.05%) Tandem
10 4 (3.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (34.35%) Linux
2 35 (26.72%) Embedded Linux
3 23 (17.56%) Windows
4 6 (4.58%) Unix
4 6 (4.58%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.05%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.29%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.76%) Android
8 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (35.88%) Software Engineering
2 35 (26.72%) Digital Signal Processing
2 35 (26.72%) Signal Processing
3 29 (22.14%) Innovative Thinking
4 28 (21.37%) Agile
5 18 (13.74%) Change Management
5 18 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (13.74%) Prototyping
6 12 (9.16%) Collaborative Working
6 12 (9.16%) Incident Management
6 12 (9.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (8.40%) FPGA Design
8 10 (7.63%) Problem Management
8 10 (7.63%) Software Architecture
9 9 (6.87%) Asset Management
9 9 (6.87%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (6.87%) Major Incident Management
9 9 (6.87%) Mobile Device Management
9 9 (6.87%) Schematic Capture
10 8 (6.11%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 59 (45.04%) C
2 45 (34.35%) C++
3 12 (9.16%) Python
4 10 (7.63%) C#
4 10 (7.63%) Embedded C
5 5 (3.82%) MATLAB
6 3 (2.29%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.53%) Assembly Language
7 2 (1.53%) Bash
7 2 (1.53%) Embedded C++
8 1 (0.76%) SQL
8 1 (0.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (32.06%) Security Cleared
2 35 (26.72%) SC Cleared
3 27 (20.61%) Degree
4 7 (5.34%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.76%) CCNP
6 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.76%) MCITP
6 1 (0.76%) MCSA
6 1 (0.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.29%) JTAG
1 3 (2.29%) QA
2 1 (0.76%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (0.76%) DO-254
2 1 (0.76%) ISO 26262
2 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.76%) MISRA
2 1 (0.76%) MISRA C
System Software
1 58 (44.27%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (6.87%) BitLocker
3 6 (4.58%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.05%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (6.87%) SCCM
2 2 (1.53%) Ansible
2 2 (1.53%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.76%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 14 (10.69%) Cisco
1 14 (10.69%) Fortinet
2 13 (9.92%) Microsoft
3 12 (9.16%) CheckPoint
4 10 (7.63%) Meraki
4 10 (7.63%) SolarWinds
5 9 (6.87%) Apple
5 9 (6.87%) HP
5 9 (6.87%) Infoblox
5 9 (6.87%) MobileIron
6 6 (4.58%) EMC
6 6 (4.58%) McAfee
6 6 (4.58%) Remedy
7 5 (3.82%) Dynatrace
7 5 (3.82%) VMware
7 5 (3.82%) Xilinx
8 2 (1.53%) Atmel
8 2 (1.53%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.53%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.76%) Freescale