Firmware Contracts in the South East

Firmware
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 186 242
Rank change year-on-year +63 +56 -36
Contract jobs citing Firmware 75 30 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.37% 0.54% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 9.68% 3.76% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 18 19
10th Percentile - £158 £363
25th Percentile £205 £161 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £186 £450
Median % change year-on-year +168.46% -58.61% +27.66%
75th Percentile £575 £483 £511
90th Percentile - £527 £540
England median daily rate £400 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -13.51% -7.50% +34.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 0
10th Percentile £50.84 £15.21 -
25th Percentile £51.06 £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% +2.04%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 775 798 1,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.18% 14.26% 16.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 553 874
10th Percentile £203 £205 £165
25th Percentile £363 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +6.74%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £662
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 44 58
10th Percentile £17.11 £15.50 £12.54
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £54.88 £54.56 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% +172.80% -14.89%
75th Percentile £64.38 £70.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.66
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £18.68
% change year-on-year -58.00% +167.74% -6.63%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the South East over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firmware in the South East over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Thames Valley +40 41 £575 +10.58% 50
Berkshire +17 34 £575 +10.58% 13
Hampshire +20 28 £375 -21.05% 17
Oxfordshire +11 5 - - 19
Surrey +8 5 £375 +117.39% 15
Buckinghamshire - 2 - - 18
Kent - 1 - - 7
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (20.00%) Confluence
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (1.33%) AWS
1 1 (1.33%) Azure
1 1 (1.33%) GCP
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (33.33%) Software-Defined Radio
2 15 (20.00%) LAN
2 15 (20.00%) SNMP
3 5 (6.67%) Firewall
3 5 (6.67%) SAN
3 5 (6.67%) Wireless
4 4 (5.33%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (5.33%) iSCSI
4 4 (5.33%) NAS
4 4 (5.33%) SSL
4 4 (5.33%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.33%) VLAN
4 4 (5.33%) VoIP
4 4 (5.33%) VPN
5 1 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 21 (28.00%) Git
2 19 (25.33%) JIRA
3 16 (21.33%) Eclipse
4 15 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 15 (20.00%) GoogleTest
4 15 (20.00%) Robot Framework
5 4 (5.33%) Subversion
6 1 (1.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 36 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 11 (14.67%) Aerospace
4 4 (5.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 18 (24.00%) Build Engineer
2 18 (24.00%) Windows Build Engineer
2 18 (24.00%) Windows Engineer
3 17 (22.67%) Embedded Engineer
3 17 (22.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 15 (20.00%) Hardware Engineer
5 11 (14.67%) C++ Software Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Java Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Break Fix Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Analyst
9 3 (4.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Firmware Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) DSP Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) Systems Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) Test Analyst
10 2 (2.67%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.33%) CSS
1 16 (21.33%) HTML
2 1 (1.33%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 7 (9.33%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.33%) Device Driver
4 3 (4.00%) VHDL
5 2 (2.67%) FMCG
5 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.33%) FPGA
6 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 42 (56.00%) Windows
2 33 (44.00%) Windows 10
3 21 (28.00%) Linux
4 18 (24.00%) Windows NT
4 18 (24.00%) Windows Server
4 18 (24.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 18 (24.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 18 (24.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (20.00%) Windows 7
6 4 (5.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.00%) Customer Service
1 33 (44.00%) ITIL
2 29 (38.67%) Software Engineering
3 26 (34.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 19 (25.33%) Validation
5 18 (24.00%) Deployment Automation
5 18 (24.00%) Release Management
5 18 (24.00%) Service Management
5 18 (24.00%) Software Testing
5 18 (24.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (22.67%) SysML
6 17 (22.67%) UML
7 15 (20.00%) Agile
7 15 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
7 15 (20.00%) Scrum
7 15 (20.00%) Service Delivery
7 15 (20.00%) Software Deployment
7 15 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
8 12 (16.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 22 (29.33%) C++
2 16 (21.33%) JavaScript
3 10 (13.33%) C
4 9 (12.00%) Java
5 6 (8.00%) MATLAB
6 4 (5.33%) Assembly Language
6 4 (5.33%) Embedded C
6 4 (5.33%) Python
6 4 (5.33%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.00%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 39 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (45.33%) DV Cleared
3 25 (33.33%) Degree
4 6 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.33%) CCNA
5 4 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.33%) Master's Degree
5 4 (5.33%) MCSE
5 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (5.33%) PhD
5 4 (5.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.33%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.33%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (24.00%) QA
2 4 (5.33%) JTAG
3 2 (2.67%) SLA
4 1 (1.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (24.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.67%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (44.00%) SCCM
2 18 (24.00%) Sysprep
2 18 (24.00%) WSUS
3 1 (1.33%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 38 (50.67%) Microsoft
2 16 (21.33%) Google
3 15 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 15 (20.00%) HP
4 4 (5.33%) VMware
5 1 (1.33%) Brocade
5 1 (1.33%) EMC
5 1 (1.33%) IBM
5 1 (1.33%) Isilon
5 1 (1.33%) NetApp
5 1 (1.33%) Veritas
5 1 (1.33%) Xilinx