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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 296 276
Rank change year-on-year +7 -20 +186
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 80 139 285
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 0.89% 1.03%
As % of the System Software category 6.06% 5.54% 6.87%
Number of salaries quoted 70 70 234
10th Percentile £45,750 £49,425 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +16.19% -8.70%
75th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £67,125
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -0.94%

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 1,321 2,508 4,146
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.15% 16.00% 15.01%
Number of salaries quoted 933 1,573 3,578
10th Percentile £29,025 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

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 11 February 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 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Acrobat
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.50%) Azure
1 10 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.50%) AWS
4 1 (1.25%) AWS IoT
4 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.25%) GCP
4 1 (1.25%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.50%) Firewall
2 13 (16.25%) Bluetooth
2 13 (16.25%) Wireless
3 12 (15.00%) VPN
4 11 (13.75%) WAN
5 9 (11.25%) RS-232
5 9 (11.25%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (8.75%) DNS
7 6 (7.50%) VLAN
8 5 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (6.25%) LAN
8 5 (6.25%) NX-OS
9 4 (5.00%) DHCP
9 4 (5.00%) LTE
9 4 (5.00%) Modbus
9 4 (5.00%) Network Security
9 4 (5.00%) SD-WAN
9 4 (5.00%) TCP/IP
9 4 (5.00%) WLAN
10 3 (3.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.25%) Big Data
2 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Git
2 4 (5.00%) Eclipse
2 4 (5.00%) Subversion
3 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (51.25%) Electronics
2 21 (26.25%) Social Skills
3 20 (25.00%) Finance
4 9 (11.25%) Automotive
5 6 (7.50%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.00%) Banking
6 4 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.75%) Military
8 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.25%) Law
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
8 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (55.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 22 (27.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 22 (27.50%) Software Engineer
3 15 (18.75%) Electronics Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Firmware Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Network Engineer
5 9 (11.25%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Design Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Electronics Design Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Embedded Software Design Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Help Desk Manager
7 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
7 5 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Manager
7 5 (6.25%) IT Manager
7 5 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Senior
7 5 (6.25%) Software Design Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.25%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 23 (28.75%) Embedded Systems
2 8 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.25%) Analogue Electronics
3 5 (6.25%) IoT
3 5 (6.25%) Raspberry Pi
4 4 (5.00%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.75%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.75%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.50%) FPGA
6 2 (2.50%) Life Science
6 2 (2.50%) Smart Home
7 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.25%) PCIe
7 1 (1.25%) Photography
7 1 (1.25%) Robotics
7 1 (1.25%) Verilog
7 1 (1.25%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.50%) Windows
2 8 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (8.75%) Linux
4 1 (1.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.25%) Software Engineering
2 11 (13.75%) Collaborative Culture
3 9 (11.25%) Mentoring
4 8 (10.00%) Embedded Software Development
5 7 (8.75%) DevOps
5 7 (8.75%) Software Testing
6 6 (7.50%) Agile
6 6 (7.50%) Computer Science
6 6 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (7.50%) Patch Management
6 6 (7.50%) Service Delivery
7 5 (6.25%) Change Management
7 5 (6.25%) Coaching
7 5 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (6.25%) Kalman Filter
7 5 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (6.25%) Regulatory Compliance
7 5 (6.25%) Runbook
7 5 (6.25%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (60.00%) C
2 30 (37.50%) C++
3 26 (32.50%) Embedded C
4 13 (16.25%) Embedded C++
5 8 (10.00%) Python
6 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (11.25%) Degree
2 7 (8.75%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (6.25%) DBS Check
3 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.75%) CCNP
5 3 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.25%) HNC
7 1 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) IEC 61508
2 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.25%) GxP
System Software
1 33 (41.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 11 (13.75%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.75%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.25%) Docker
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (6.25%) Dell DRAC
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.75%) Functional Safety
3 3 (3.75%) Terraform
4 1 (1.25%) AirWatch
4 1 (1.25%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (20.00%) Cisco
2 11 (13.75%) Fortinet
2 11 (13.75%) VMware
3 8 (10.00%) EMC
4 7 (8.75%) Microsoft
5 6 (7.50%) Dell
6 5 (6.25%) CheckPoint
7 4 (5.00%) Atmel
7 4 (5.00%) Meraki
8 3 (3.75%) ConnectWise
8 3 (3.75%) Draytek
8 3 (3.75%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.75%) SolarWinds
8 3 (3.75%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.25%) Citrix
9 1 (1.25%) Google
9 1 (1.25%) iManage
9 1 (1.25%) Intapp
9 1 (1.25%) Red Hat