Firmware Contracts in England

Firmware
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Firmware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Firmware over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 499 623
Rank change year-on-year +147 +124 -84
Contract jobs citing Firmware 193 152 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.32% 0.22%
As % of the System Software category 4.87% 2.44% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 72 92
10th Percentile £205 £161 £310
25th Percentile £263 £422 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% -7.50% +36.05%
75th Percentile £545 £530 £569
90th Percentile £575 £561 £630
UK median daily rate £425 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -12.82% +2.63% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 28 12
10th Percentile £22.34 £46.38 £28.38
25th Percentile £48.31 £47.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% +1.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £54.08
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +10.00% +1.52%

All System Software Skills
England

Firmware is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,963 6,230 9,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.89% 12.93% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,773 4,509 7,061
10th Percentile £200 £200 £198
25th Percentile £338 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 221 267
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.52 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £72.38 £75.99 £53.20
UK median hourly rate £22.30 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.70% +170.00% -9.09%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in England

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in England

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in England

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in England

Firmware
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firmware in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firmware in England

Firmware
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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 +62 75 £525 +181.88% 111
London +133 61 £375 -27.88% 34
North of England +39 27 £500 +11.11% 23
North West +33 24 £508 +12.94% 16
South West +14 14 - - 39
East of England -20 12 £450 -1.37% 61
Midlands +16 4 £275 -42.11% 45
East Midlands +9 3 £270 -24.21% 26
North East - 3 £425 - 1
West Midlands +19 1 £550 +6.80% 19
Firmware
UK

Firmware
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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (8.29%) Confluence
2 12 (6.22%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 23 (11.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.04%) Simulink
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (5.70%) Azure
2 7 (3.63%) AWS
2 7 (3.63%) GCP
3 5 (2.59%) OpenShift
4 4 (2.07%) SaaS
5 3 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.52%) Amazon Alexa
6 1 (0.52%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.52%) Azure App Service
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Storage
6 1 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.52%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.52%) Firebase
6 1 (0.52%) GitHub
6 1 (0.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 30 (15.54%) Firewall
2 27 (13.99%) SNMP
3 25 (12.95%) Software-Defined Radio
4 23 (11.92%) LAN
5 19 (9.84%) BGP
5 19 (9.84%) IPsec
5 19 (9.84%) OSPF
5 19 (9.84%) Wireless
6 16 (8.29%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (7.25%) VPN
8 13 (6.74%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (6.74%) Cisco Firepower
8 13 (6.74%) Cisco ISE
8 13 (6.74%) EIGRP
8 13 (6.74%) HSRP
8 13 (6.74%) NetScaler
9 12 (6.22%) Spanning Tree
10 11 (5.70%) SAN
11 10 (5.18%) VoIP
11 10 (5.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (11.40%) Git
2 20 (10.36%) JIRA
3 16 (8.29%) Eclipse
4 15 (7.77%) Bitbucket
4 15 (7.77%) GoogleTest
4 15 (7.77%) Robot Framework
5 5 (2.59%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (2.07%) Subversion
7 3 (1.55%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 63 (32.64%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.40%) Organisational Skills
3 14 (7.25%) Finance
4 13 (6.74%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.70%) Aerospace
6 9 (4.66%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.11%) Electronics
7 6 (3.11%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.04%) Marketing
8 2 (1.04%) Military
8 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Law
9 1 (0.52%) Local Government
9 1 (0.52%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.52%) Retail
9 1 (0.52%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 25 (12.95%) Software Engineer
2 24 (12.44%) Network Engineer
3 22 (11.40%) Hardware Engineer
4 20 (10.36%) Windows Engineer
5 19 (9.84%) Build Engineer
5 19 (9.84%) Windows Build Engineer
6 17 (8.81%) Embedded Engineer
6 17 (8.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 13 (6.74%) Developer
8 11 (5.70%) Analyst
8 11 (5.70%) C++ Software Engineer
8 11 (5.70%) Systems Engineer
9 10 (5.18%) Cisco Engineer
9 10 (5.18%) Senior
9 10 (5.18%) Senior Network Engineer
9 10 (5.18%) VMware Engineer
10 9 (4.66%) Audio Visual Engineer
11 8 (4.15%) Firmware Developer
11 8 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.15%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.29%) CSS
1 16 (8.29%) HTML
2 12 (6.22%) Jinja
3 4 (2.07%) SAML
4 3 (1.55%) Yocto
5 1 (0.52%) .NET
5 1 (0.52%) Flash
5 1 (0.52%) GStreamer
5 1 (0.52%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.84%) Driving Licence
2 13 (6.74%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.66%) Device Driver
4 8 (4.15%) Algorithms
4 8 (4.15%) Embedded Systems
5 7 (3.63%) VHDL
6 5 (2.59%) FPGA
6 5 (2.59%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.55%) CMDB
7 3 (1.55%) Digital TV
7 3 (1.55%) STB
8 2 (1.04%) FMCG
8 2 (1.04%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.52%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.52%) IoT
9 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Replication
9 1 (0.52%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.52%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 62 (32.12%) Windows
2 40 (20.73%) Linux
3 34 (17.62%) Windows 10
4 26 (13.47%) Windows Server
5 19 (9.84%) Windows NT
5 19 (9.84%) Windows Server 2012
5 19 (9.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (9.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (7.77%) Windows 7
7 6 (3.11%) VMS
8 5 (2.59%) Unix
9 1 (0.52%) CentOS
9 1 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (25.39%) ITIL
2 39 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (18.65%) Customer Service
4 29 (15.03%) Software Engineering
5 28 (14.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 27 (13.99%) Validation
7 24 (12.44%) UML
8 21 (10.88%) SysML
9 19 (9.84%) Agile
9 19 (9.84%) Deployment Automation
9 19 (9.84%) ITSM
9 19 (9.84%) Release Management
9 19 (9.84%) Service Management
9 19 (9.84%) Software Testing
9 19 (9.84%) User Acceptance Testing
9 19 (9.84%) Verification and Validation
10 17 (8.81%) Change Management
11 16 (8.29%) Scrum
12 15 (7.77%) Service Delivery
12 15 (7.77%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 26 (13.47%) C++
2 25 (12.95%) Python
3 21 (10.88%) C
4 16 (8.29%) JavaScript
5 13 (6.74%) Perl
5 13 (6.74%) Tcl
6 10 (5.18%) Java
7 8 (4.15%) MATLAB
8 5 (2.59%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.07%) Assembly Language
9 4 (2.07%) Embedded C
9 4 (2.07%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.55%) Bash
10 3 (1.55%) Embedded C++
11 2 (1.04%) SQL
12 1 (0.52%) C#
12 1 (0.52%) Go
12 1 (0.52%) PHP
12 1 (0.52%) Ruby
12 1 (0.52%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 62 (32.12%) Security Cleared
2 38 (19.69%) Degree
3 35 (18.13%) DV Cleared
4 27 (13.99%) SC Cleared
5 22 (11.40%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (9.33%) CCNA
6 18 (9.33%) CCNP
7 6 (3.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.07%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.07%) MCSE
9 4 (2.07%) PhD
10 2 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.04%) CCIE
10 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.52%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.88%) QA
2 8 (4.15%) SLA
3 4 (2.07%) JTAG
4 3 (1.55%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.55%) DO-178B
4 3 (1.55%) MISRA
5 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.04%) NCSC
6 1 (0.52%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.52%) NIST
6 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
System Software
1 27 (13.99%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.66%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (3.63%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (3.63%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (3.11%) Docker
5 6 (3.11%) vSphere
6 2 (1.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (17.62%) SCCM
2 25 (12.95%) WSUS
3 19 (9.84%) Sysprep
4 18 (9.33%) Ansible
5 7 (3.63%) vCenter Server
6 6 (3.11%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (3.11%) Kubernetes
7 5 (2.59%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.59%) Puppet
7 5 (2.59%) Terraform
8 4 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.04%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.52%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.52%) SCOM
10 1 (0.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.52%) VxRail
10 1 (0.52%) yum
Vendors
1 51 (26.42%) Microsoft
2 37 (19.17%) Cisco
3 19 (9.84%) VMware
4 17 (8.81%) Google
5 16 (8.29%) Atlassian
6 15 (7.77%) HP
6 15 (7.77%) Palo Alto
7 14 (7.25%) Dell
8 13 (6.74%) Citrix
8 13 (6.74%) SolarWinds
9 6 (3.11%) F5
9 6 (3.11%) Infoblox
10 5 (2.59%) Veeam
10 5 (2.59%) Xilinx
11 4 (2.07%) IBM
11 4 (2.07%) Logitech
11 4 (2.07%) Okta
11 4 (2.07%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.55%) Brocade
12 3 (1.55%) Polycom