Firmware Contracts in Essex

Firmware
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 22 51
Rank change year-on-year -9 +29 -
Contract jobs citing Firmware 1 16 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 0.43% 6.37% 1.00%
As % of the System Software category 6.67% 32.65% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £500
East of England median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.75 - -
Median hourly rate £70.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £64.00 £70.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -8.57% +40.00% +2.04%

All System Software Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 15 49 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 6.47% 19.52% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 43
10th Percentile £194 £295 £166
25th Percentile £236 £438 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% - +42.86%
75th Percentile £501 £521 £609
90th Percentile £550 £621 £631
East of England median daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £13.44 £22.30 -
25th Percentile £14.31 £23.79 £18.55
Median hourly rate £15.76 £24.62 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.99% -5.31% +41.50%
75th Percentile £44.51 £34.90 £28.41
90th Percentile £61.75 £53.41 -
East of England median hourly rate £14.16 £57.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year -75.37% +270.97% -15.16%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Essex

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in Essex

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in Essex

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Essex region over the 6 months to 13 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
Basildon - 1 - -
Firmware
East of England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (100.00%) Software-Defined Radio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
1 1 (100.00%) Verilog
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Design Automation
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) DO-254
1 1 (100.00%) IEC 61508
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Actel
1 1 (100.00%) Lattice Semiconductor
1 1 (100.00%) Microsemi
1 1 (100.00%) Siemens
1 1 (100.00%) Xilinx