Firmware Job Trends in England

Firmware
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 372 339
Rank change year-on-year +33 -33 +109
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 505 300 545
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 0.69% 0.75%
As % of the System Software category 9.46% 5.41% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 394 207 401
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,850 £36,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,875 £81,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%

All System Software Skills
England

Firmware falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,337 5,549 7,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.54% 12.68% 10.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,969 3,485 5,367
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,350 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.94% -8.18%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £87,500 £87,700
UK median annual salary £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.71%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firmware relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Firmware job vacancy trend in England

Firmware
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Firmware

Firmware
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in England over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Firmware in England

Firmware
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the England region over the 6 months to 26 August 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -12 157 £65,000 +18.18% 73
North of England +23 97 £55,000 +18.28% 34
Midlands +7 91 £55,000 +22.70% 43
East of England +23 85 £65,000 +10.64% 63
South West -34 57 £60,000 +14.29% 45
East Midlands 0 45 £54,000 +13.68% 19
West Midlands -10 43 £65,000 +66.67% 24
North West +21 39 £57,500 +22.10% 19
Yorkshire -20 32 £54,000 +17.39% 9
North East - 26 £55,000 - 8
London -86 13 £67,500 +12.50% 29
Firmware
UK

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (0.59%) Confluence
1 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (2.77%) Simulink
2 7 (1.39%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.40%) OrCAD
3 2 (0.40%) Weka
4 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) MicroStation
4 1 (0.20%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (1.98%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (9.11%) Azure
2 25 (4.95%) AWS
3 17 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (1.58%) SaaS
5 7 (1.39%) Entra ID
6 5 (0.99%) GCP
7 4 (0.79%) Azure Stack
7 4 (0.79%) Nutanix
8 3 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (0.59%) Amazon S3
8 3 (0.59%) AWS IoT
8 3 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.59%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (0.59%) Cohesity
8 3 (0.59%) GitHub
8 3 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (0.59%) Serverless
9 2 (0.40%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.20%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (7.33%) Wireless
2 29 (5.74%) Firewall
3 23 (4.55%) Bluetooth
4 21 (4.16%) Modbus
4 21 (4.16%) VPN
4 21 (4.16%) WAN
5 20 (3.96%) TCP/IP
6 17 (3.37%) VLAN
7 16 (3.17%) SAN
7 16 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (2.77%) RS-232
9 13 (2.57%) LTE
9 13 (2.57%) RS-485
10 11 (2.18%) LAN
10 11 (2.18%) ZigBee
11 10 (1.98%) Ethernet
11 10 (1.98%) Profibus
12 9 (1.78%) Network Security
12 9 (1.78%) SD-WAN
13 8 (1.58%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (0.59%) NoSQL
1 3 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (3.96%) Git
2 16 (3.17%) Rational DOORS
3 12 (2.38%) JIRA
4 9 (1.78%) LabVIEW
5 6 (1.19%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.99%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.99%) GitLab
7 3 (0.59%) Postman
7 3 (0.59%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.40%) GDB
8 2 (0.40%) MLflow
8 2 (0.40%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.40%) Subversion
9 1 (0.20%) GoogleTest
9 1 (0.20%) Polyspace
9 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.20%) VectorCAST
9 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 163 (32.28%) Electronics
2 86 (17.03%) Social Skills
3 58 (11.49%) Manufacturing
4 39 (7.72%) Aerospace
5 38 (7.52%) Automotive
6 33 (6.53%) Finance
7 20 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.98%) Military
12 9 (1.78%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.19%) Retail
14 5 (0.99%) Law
14 5 (0.99%) Marketing
15 3 (0.59%) Games
15 3 (0.59%) Wearables
16 2 (0.40%) Aviation
16 2 (0.40%) Avionics
17 1 (0.20%) Legal
Job Titles
1 168 (33.27%) Software Engineer
2 148 (29.31%) Embedded Engineer
3 116 (22.97%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 105 (20.79%) Senior
5 62 (12.28%) Lead
6 55 (10.89%) Senior Software Engineer
7 51 (10.10%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 47 (9.31%) Firmware Engineer
9 44 (8.71%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 34 (6.73%) Electronics Engineer
11 29 (5.74%) Design Engineer
12 28 (5.54%) FPGA Engineer
12 28 (5.54%) Systems Engineer
13 22 (4.36%) Technical Leader
14 19 (3.76%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
14 19 (3.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 19 (3.76%) Test Engineer
15 17 (3.37%) Senior Firmware Engineer
16 15 (2.97%) Electronics Design Engineer
17 14 (2.77%) Senior Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.78%) .NET
2 8 (1.58%) Terraform
3 5 (0.99%) Node.js
3 5 (0.99%) React
3 5 (0.99%) WPF
4 4 (0.79%) REST
4 4 (0.79%) WebSockets
4 4 (0.79%) Yocto
5 3 (0.59%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.59%) Avalonia
5 3 (0.59%) OpenCV
6 2 (0.40%) LangChain
6 2 (0.40%) React Native
6 2 (0.40%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.20%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.20%) JWT
7 1 (0.20%) Micronaut
7 1 (0.20%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.20%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.20%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 90 (17.82%) Embedded Systems
2 49 (9.70%) FPGA
3 43 (8.51%) Algorithms
4 39 (7.72%) IoT
5 31 (6.14%) Analogue Electronics
6 27 (5.35%) VHDL
7 22 (4.36%) Driving Licence
8 20 (3.96%) Data Centre
8 20 (3.96%) Enterprise Storage
9 17 (3.37%) ARM Cortex
10 16 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (2.97%) PCIe
11 15 (2.97%) Raspberry Pi
12 13 (2.57%) Verilog
13 12 (2.38%) Replication
14 11 (2.18%) iSeries
14 11 (2.18%) Management Information System
15 10 (1.98%) NVMe
16 9 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (1.58%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 43 (8.51%) Linux
2 35 (6.93%) Windows
3 33 (6.53%) FreeRTOS
4 16 (3.17%) Embedded Linux
5 12 (2.38%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.40%) Android
7 2 (0.40%) OpenWrt
7 2 (0.40%) ThreadX
7 2 (0.40%) Unix
7 2 (0.40%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.20%) Debian
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.20%) SafeRTOS
8 1 (0.20%) SUSE
8 1 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (39.80%) Software Engineering
2 71 (14.06%) Validation
3 57 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (9.90%) Mentoring
6 43 (8.51%) Signal Processing
7 37 (7.33%) Test Automation
8 36 (7.13%) Cybersecurity
9 34 (6.73%) Software Testing
10 33 (6.53%) Technical Leadership
11 32 (6.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 31 (6.14%) Root Cause Analysis
13 28 (5.54%) Collaborative Culture
14 27 (5.35%) Digital Signal Processing
15 26 (5.15%) Disaster Recovery
16 25 (4.95%) Computer Science
16 25 (4.95%) Project Delivery
16 25 (4.95%) Systems Engineering
17 23 (4.55%) AI
17 23 (4.55%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 150 (29.70%) C
2 99 (19.60%) C++
3 66 (13.07%) Python
4 52 (10.30%) Embedded C
5 22 (4.36%) MATLAB
6 17 (3.37%) C#
7 14 (2.77%) Rust
8 13 (2.57%) Assembly Language
9 11 (2.18%) Embedded C++
10 10 (1.98%) Java
11 8 (1.58%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.99%) SQL
13 4 (0.79%) Go
14 3 (0.59%) Bash
14 3 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.59%) PHP
14 3 (0.59%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.40%) Ada
16 1 (0.20%) Perl
16 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 96 (19.01%) Degree
2 73 (14.46%) Security Cleared
3 47 (9.31%) SC Cleared
4 38 (7.52%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.78%) HND
9 7 (1.39%) CCNA
9 7 (1.39%) HNC
10 6 (1.19%) CCNP
10 6 (1.19%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.59%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.40%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.20%) CCA
13 1 (0.20%) ISEB
13 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.76%) QA
2 16 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.98%) MISRA
5 7 (1.39%) IEC 61508
6 6 (1.19%) SLA
7 5 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.99%) GDPR
7 5 (0.99%) MISRA C
8 4 (0.79%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 3 (0.59%) JTAG
10 2 (0.40%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.40%) NCSC
11 1 (0.20%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.20%) DO-254
11 1 (0.20%) HAZOP
11 1 (0.20%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 151 (29.90%) Embedded Firmware
2 28 (5.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (4.16%) Hyper-V
4 20 (3.96%) Active Directory
5 7 (1.39%) Docker
5 7 (1.39%) QEMU
5 7 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.99%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.99%) vSphere
7 1 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.20%) NFS
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (1.58%) Ansible
2 6 (1.19%) FortiGate
2 6 (1.19%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.99%) VxRail
4 4 (0.79%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.40%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (0.40%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.40%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.20%) Grafana
6 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (7.33%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.14%) VMware
3 30 (5.94%) EMC
4 23 (4.55%) Cisco
5 16 (3.17%) Veeam
6 14 (2.77%) Fortinet
6 14 (2.77%) Xilinx
7 13 (2.57%) HP
8 12 (2.38%) Dell
9 11 (2.18%) Commvault
9 11 (2.18%) IBM
10 10 (1.98%) Altera
11 6 (1.19%) Freshdesk
12 5 (0.99%) Meraki
12 5 (0.99%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.79%) NetApp
13 4 (0.79%) WatchGuard
14 3 (0.59%) Google
14 3 (0.59%) SonicWALL
14 3 (0.59%) Sophos