Firmware Engineer Contracts in England

Firmware Engineer
UK > England

The median Firmware Engineer daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 615 759
Rank change year-on-year +73 +144 -116
Contract jobs requiring a Firmware Engineer 9 22 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.024% 0.046% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.049% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 15 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £494 £535
90th Percentile - £521 £552
UK median daily rate £550 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +18.92% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 7
10th Percentile - £51.25 -
25th Percentile £47.50 £55.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate £51.50 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £73.25 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £78.05 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Firmware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Firmware Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware Engineer in England

Firmware Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware Engineer in England

Firmware Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware Engineer in England

Firmware Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firmware Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firmware Engineer in England

Firmware Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +11 3 - - 10
East of England -3 3 - - 10
London +93 2 £550 +15.79% 1
North West - 1 - - 2
North of England - 1 - - 3
Firmware Engineer
UK

Firmware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Firmware Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Firmware Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Firmware
2 7 (77.78%) C
3 3 (33.33%) C++
3 3 (33.33%) Embedded C
3 3 (33.33%) Git
4 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
4 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) FMCG
4 2 (22.22%) JSON
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Renesas
4 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
4 2 (22.22%) Flash
4 2 (22.22%) VHDL
4 2 (22.22%) Verilog
4 2 (22.22%) ThreadX
4 2 (22.22%) Xilinx
4 2 (22.22%) NB-IoT
5 1 (11.11%) SystemVerilog
5 1 (11.11%) UVM
5 1 (11.11%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (11.11%) Electronic Design Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Wireless
5 1 (11.11%) Electronics
5 1 (11.11%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) STB
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) FPGA
5 1 (11.11%) Python

Firmware Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (11.11%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (11.11%) Electronics
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Flash
1 2 (22.22%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
1 2 (22.22%) FMCG
1 2 (22.22%) NB-IoT
1 2 (22.22%) Verilog
1 2 (22.22%) VHDL
2 1 (11.11%) Digital TV
2 1 (11.11%) FPGA
2 1 (11.11%) STB
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) ThreadX
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Analytics
1 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
2 1 (11.11%) Agile
2 1 (11.11%) Electronic Design Automation
2 1 (11.11%) FPGA Design
2 1 (11.11%) Open Source
2 1 (11.11%) Signal Processing
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) C
2 3 (33.33%) C++
2 3 (33.33%) Embedded C
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) DO-254
1 1 (11.11%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Firmware
2 1 (11.11%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Renesas
1 2 (22.22%) Xilinx
2 1 (11.11%) Actel
2 1 (11.11%) Lattice Semiconductor
2 1 (11.11%) Microsemi
2 1 (11.11%) Siemens