Firmware Contracts in the UK excluding London

Firmware
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 250 340 417
Rank change year-on-year +90 +77 -69
Contract jobs citing Firmware 149 110 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.73% 0.48% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 6.22% 3.16% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 49 58
10th Percentile £205 £161 £259
25th Percentile £286 £256 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £538
90th Percentile - £530 £571
UK median daily rate £425 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -12.82% +2.63% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 22 3
10th Percentile £49.45 £47.50 £21.25
25th Percentile £51.16 £49.00 £23.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £58.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +113.64% -44.72%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £39.13
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £45.35
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +10.00% +1.52%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,394 3,486 4,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.80% 15.15% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,625 2,497 3,265
10th Percentile £179 £181 £158
25th Percentile £299 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +6.67% +6.16%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £553
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 176 233
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.53 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.17 £44.93 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -57.33% +154.69% -3.45%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £74.38 £49.35
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South East +62 75 £525 +181.88% 113
North of England +39 27 £500 +11.11% 23
North West +33 24 £508 +12.94% 16
Scotland +49 15 £388 -22.50% 19
South West +14 14 - - 40
East of England -20 12 £450 -1.37% 62
Midlands +16 4 £275 -42.11% 46
East Midlands +9 3 £270 -24.21% 27
North East - 3 £425 - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
West Midlands +19 1 £550 +6.80% 19
Firmware
UK

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 15 (10.07%) Confluence
2 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (10.07%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.34%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (1.34%) IaaS
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (0.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (0.67%) AWS
2 1 (0.67%) Azure
2 1 (0.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 27 (18.12%) SNMP
2 25 (16.78%) Software-Defined Radio
3 18 (12.08%) Firewall
4 17 (11.41%) LAN
5 15 (10.07%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (8.72%) BGP
6 13 (8.72%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (8.72%) Cisco Firepower
6 13 (8.72%) Cisco ISE
6 13 (8.72%) EIGRP
6 13 (8.72%) HSRP
6 13 (8.72%) IPsec
6 13 (8.72%) NetScaler
6 13 (8.72%) OSPF
7 12 (8.05%) Spanning Tree
8 11 (7.38%) SAN
9 7 (4.70%) VLAN
9 7 (4.70%) VoIP
9 7 (4.70%) Wireless
10 5 (3.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (14.77%) Git
2 20 (13.42%) JIRA
3 16 (10.74%) Eclipse
4 15 (10.07%) Bitbucket
4 15 (10.07%) GoogleTest
4 15 (10.07%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.68%) Subversion
6 3 (2.01%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.67%) CMake
7 1 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 48 (32.21%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.07%) Organisational Skills
3 11 (7.38%) Aerospace
3 11 (7.38%) Electronics
4 7 (4.70%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.36%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.36%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.01%) Finance
7 2 (1.34%) Banking
7 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.67%) French Language
8 1 (0.67%) German Language
8 1 (0.67%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.67%) Law
8 1 (0.67%) Marketing
8 1 (0.67%) Military
8 1 (0.67%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.67%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 30 (20.13%) Hardware Engineer
2 29 (19.46%) Software Engineer
3 21 (14.09%) Embedded Engineer
3 21 (14.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 20 (13.42%) Network Engineer
4 20 (13.42%) Windows Engineer
5 19 (12.75%) Build Engineer
5 19 (12.75%) Windows Build Engineer
6 11 (7.38%) C++ Software Engineer
6 11 (7.38%) Developer
7 9 (6.04%) Senior
7 9 (6.04%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (5.37%) Firmware Developer
8 8 (5.37%) VMware Engineer
9 7 (4.70%) Digital Hardware Engineer
9 7 (4.70%) Java Engineer
9 7 (4.70%) Java Software Engineer
9 7 (4.70%) SAN Engineer
9 7 (4.70%) SAN Storage Engineer
9 7 (4.70%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.74%) CSS
1 16 (10.74%) HTML
2 12 (8.05%) Jinja
3 4 (2.68%) Yocto
4 1 (0.67%) Flash
4 1 (0.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.75%) Driving Licence
2 12 (8.05%) Device Driver
3 11 (7.38%) VHDL
4 9 (6.04%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.37%) Algorithms
6 7 (4.70%) Embedded Systems
6 7 (4.70%) FPGA
7 5 (3.36%) Verilog
8 4 (2.68%) IoT
8 4 (2.68%) PCIe
9 3 (2.01%) Digital TV
9 3 (2.01%) STB
10 2 (1.34%) CMDB
10 2 (1.34%) FMCG
10 2 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.34%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.34%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.67%) Augmented Reality
11 1 (0.67%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 48 (32.21%) Windows
2 34 (22.82%) Windows 10
3 33 (22.15%) Linux
4 20 (13.42%) Windows Server
5 19 (12.75%) Windows NT
5 19 (12.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 19 (12.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (12.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (10.07%) Windows 7
7 5 (3.36%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (2.68%) Unix
8 4 (2.68%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (31.54%) ITIL
2 34 (22.82%) Customer Service
2 34 (22.82%) Software Engineering
3 28 (18.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 26 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (16.78%) Agile
6 23 (15.44%) Validation
7 20 (13.42%) UML
8 19 (12.75%) Deployment Automation
8 19 (12.75%) Release Management
8 19 (12.75%) Service Management
8 19 (12.75%) Software Testing
8 19 (12.75%) User Acceptance Testing
9 18 (12.08%) Verification and Validation
10 17 (11.41%) Change Management
10 17 (11.41%) SysML
11 15 (10.07%) Customer Requirements
11 15 (10.07%) Scrum
11 15 (10.07%) Service Delivery
11 15 (10.07%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.44%) C++
2 22 (14.77%) Python
3 21 (14.09%) C
4 16 (10.74%) JavaScript
5 14 (9.40%) Perl
6 13 (8.72%) Tcl
7 9 (6.04%) Embedded C
7 9 (6.04%) Java
8 8 (5.37%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.68%) Assembly Language
9 4 (2.68%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.01%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.67%) Bash
11 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.67%) SQL
11 1 (0.67%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 57 (38.26%) Security Cleared
2 35 (23.49%) DV Cleared
3 33 (22.15%) Degree
4 23 (15.44%) SC Cleared
5 16 (10.74%) CCNA
5 16 (10.74%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (8.05%) CCNP
7 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.68%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.68%) MCSE
8 4 (2.68%) PhD
8 4 (2.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.34%) HND
10 1 (0.67%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.09%) QA
2 7 (4.70%) MISRA
3 4 (2.68%) JTAG
3 4 (2.68%) MISRA C
4 3 (2.01%) Def Stans
4 3 (2.01%) DO-178B
5 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.34%) SLA
6 1 (0.67%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.67%) NCSC
6 1 (0.67%) NIST
6 1 (0.67%) NIST 800
System Software
1 21 (14.09%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.70%) Embedded Firmware
2 7 (4.70%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.68%) vSphere
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (22.82%) SCCM
2 19 (12.75%) Sysprep
2 19 (12.75%) WSUS
3 12 (8.05%) Ansible
4 6 (4.03%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.67%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (0.67%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 40 (26.85%) Microsoft
2 25 (16.78%) Cisco
3 19 (12.75%) Atlassian
4 16 (10.74%) Google
5 15 (10.07%) HP
6 13 (8.72%) Citrix
6 13 (8.72%) Palo Alto
6 13 (8.72%) SolarWinds
7 11 (7.38%) VMware
8 5 (3.36%) Xilinx
9 4 (2.68%) IBM
9 4 (2.68%) Intel
10 3 (2.01%) Brocade
10 3 (2.01%) EMC
11 2 (1.34%) Broadcom
11 2 (1.34%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.34%) Isilon
11 2 (1.34%) Meraki
11 2 (1.34%) Nortel
12 1 (0.67%) Dell