Firmware Contracts in Edinburgh

Firmware
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Firmware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firmware over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 95 130
Rank change year-on-year +22 +35 -11
Contract jobs citing Firmware 4 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.48% 0.094% 0.43%
As % of the System Software category 3.88% 0.72% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £258 - £390
25th Percentile £344 - £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £460
75th Percentile £744 - £534
90th Percentile £853 - £538
Scotland median daily rate £750 £475 £460
% change year-on-year +57.89% +3.26% +37.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £46.30
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £50.00 £46.30
% change year-on-year +50.00% +7.99% -

All System Software Skills
Edinburgh

Firmware falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 103 138 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.47% 12.98% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 95 156
10th Percentile £200 £221 £190
25th Percentile £240 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £474 £475
Median % change year-on-year -28.19% -0.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £494 £528 £546
90th Percentile £546 £555 £600
Scotland median daily rate £425 £477 £450
% change year-on-year -10.90% +6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £15.70 - £15.68
25th Percentile £18.55 - £16.70
Median hourly rate £22.23 - £17.72
75th Percentile £24.18 - £18.55
90th Percentile £49.59 - £30.15
Scotland median hourly rate £22.23 £56.25 £17.72
% change year-on-year -60.48% +217.44% -75.89%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firmware in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Firmware in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firmware in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) ATM
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) EPoS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Flash
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) IoT
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) EPoS
2 1 (25.00%) NB-IoT
2 1 (25.00%) PCIe
2 1 (25.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (25.00%) Verilog
2 1 (25.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) ThreadX
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C
1 3 (75.00%) C++
1 3 (75.00%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) MISRA
1 1 (25.00%) MISRA C
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) Intel
1 1 (25.00%) Renesas