Firmware Contracts in London

Firmware
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 329 462 550
Rank change year-on-year +133 +88 -88
Contract jobs citing Firmware 61 31 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 3.44% 1.05% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 19 36
10th Percentile £200 £400 £323
25th Percentile £262 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -27.88% +0.39% +40.00%
75th Percentile £434 £538 £591
90th Percentile £584 £570 £635
England median daily rate £400 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -13.51% -7.50% +36.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile - £44.38 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £45.31 -
Median hourly rate £22.59 £48.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -53.66% - -
75th Percentile £24.18 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £25.00 £51.13 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% +1.52%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,774 2,961 4,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.16% 11.44% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,271 2,172 3,764
10th Percentile £219 £243 £313
25th Percentile £370 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £619 £683 £672
90th Percentile £725 £775 £743
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 37 41
10th Percentile £17.14 £18.10 £14.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £60.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.50% +118.18% -43.30%
75th Percentile £25.00 £75.00 £46.50
90th Percentile £49.23 £87.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -5.00%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in London

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in London

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in London

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in London

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the London 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
Central London +37 3 £375 -25.45% 1
West London +23 3 £650 - 4
East London -4 2 £380 -20.00% 3
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 12 (19.67%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (13.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.39%) Azure
2 6 (9.84%) AWS
2 6 (9.84%) GCP
3 5 (8.20%) OpenShift
4 4 (6.56%) SaaS
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon Alexa
5 1 (1.64%) Azure App Service
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.64%) Firebase
5 1 (1.64%) GitHub
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.67%) Firewall
1 12 (19.67%) Wireless
2 10 (16.39%) VPN
3 9 (14.75%) MPLS
4 8 (13.11%) WAN
5 6 (9.84%) BGP
5 6 (9.84%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (9.84%) Internet
5 6 (9.84%) IPsec
5 6 (9.84%) LAN
5 6 (9.84%) OSPF
5 6 (9.84%) SD-WAN
5 6 (9.84%) VXLAN
6 4 (6.56%) Cisco Wireless
6 4 (6.56%) DNS
7 3 (4.92%) VoIP
8 2 (3.28%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (1.64%) MQTT
9 1 (1.64%) RTSP
9 1 (1.64%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.64%) JIRA
General
1 18 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.31%) Finance
3 8 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.48%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Electronics
6 1 (1.64%) Local Government
6 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.64%) Marketing
6 1 (1.64%) Military
6 1 (1.64%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.64%) Retail
6 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (14.75%) Audio Visual Engineer
2 7 (11.48%) Analyst
3 6 (9.84%) Administrator
3 6 (9.84%) Network Engineer
3 6 (9.84%) Server Administrator
3 6 (9.84%) Support Analyst
3 6 (9.84%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Desktop Analyst
4 5 (8.20%) Desktop Support
4 5 (8.20%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 5 (8.20%) Support Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Windows Administrator
4 5 (8.20%) Windows Server Administrator
5 4 (6.56%) Cisco Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Lead
6 3 (4.92%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Server Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.56%) SAML
2 1 (1.64%) .NET
2 1 (1.64%) GStreamer
2 1 (1.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (6.56%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.92%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.64%) CMDB
4 1 (1.64%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.64%) Digital Signage
4 1 (1.64%) IoT
4 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (26.23%) Linux
2 14 (22.95%) Windows
3 6 (9.84%) Windows Server
4 5 (8.20%) VMS
5 1 (1.64%) CentOS
5 1 (1.64%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (29.51%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (19.67%) Server Management
3 8 (13.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (13.11%) Performance Tuning
4 7 (11.48%) Containerisation
4 7 (11.48%) High Availability
4 7 (11.48%) ITSM
4 7 (11.48%) Problem Management
5 6 (9.84%) Inventory Management
5 6 (9.84%) Kalman Filter
5 6 (9.84%) Open Source
5 6 (9.84%) Predictive Analysis
5 6 (9.84%) Runbook
5 6 (9.84%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (8.20%) Performance Improvement
6 5 (8.20%) Preventative Maintenance
7 4 (6.56%) Proactive Monitoring
7 4 (6.56%) Systems Engineering
7 4 (6.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.48%) Python
2 5 (8.20%) C
3 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.92%) C++
5 2 (3.28%) Bash
6 1 (1.64%) C#
6 1 (1.64%) Go
6 1 (1.64%) Java
6 1 (1.64%) Perl
6 1 (1.64%) PHP
6 1 (1.64%) Ruby
6 1 (1.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (11.48%) Degree
2 6 (9.84%) CCNP
2 6 (9.84%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (8.20%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.28%) CCIE
5 2 (3.28%) CCNA
5 2 (3.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) SLA
2 1 (1.64%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (13.11%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (11.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (9.84%) Active Directory
3 6 (9.84%) Docker
4 2 (3.28%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.28%) vSphere
5 1 (1.64%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (9.84%) Ansible
1 6 (9.84%) Kubernetes
1 6 (9.84%) WSUS
2 5 (8.20%) Dell DRAC
2 5 (8.20%) Progress Chef
2 5 (8.20%) Puppet
2 5 (8.20%) Terraform
3 4 (6.56%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.28%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.64%) SCOM
5 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.64%) VxRail
5 1 (1.64%) yum
Vendors
1 14 (22.95%) Cisco
2 13 (21.31%) Dell
3 11 (18.03%) Microsoft
4 8 (13.11%) VMware
5 6 (9.84%) F5
5 6 (9.84%) Infoblox
6 5 (8.20%) Veeam
7 4 (6.56%) Logitech
7 4 (6.56%) Okta
7 4 (6.56%) ServiceNow
8 3 (4.92%) Polycom
9 2 (3.28%) Fortinet
9 2 (3.28%) Palo Alto
9 2 (3.28%) Remedy
10 1 (1.64%) Apple
10 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
10 1 (1.64%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (1.64%) Google
10 1 (1.64%) Intel
10 1 (1.64%) SAP