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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 366 339
Rank change year-on-year +60 -27 +69
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 615 293 501
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 0.68% 0.79%
As % of the System Software category 11.08% 5.76% 7.16%
Number of salaries quoted 477 197 285
10th Percentile £38,650 £37,300 £35,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,500 £40,013
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £71,250 £63,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.90% +4.72%

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 5,553 5,091 6,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.32% 11.88% 10.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,986 3,096 4,046
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £94,875
UK median annual salary £55,000 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +20 200 £62,500 +13.64% 83
Midlands +20 126 £55,000 +15.79% 38
North of England +8 103 £57,500 +25.00% 39
East of England +33 97 £65,000 -4.41% 111
East Midlands +13 68 £54,000 +13.68% 23
South West -16 67 £60,000 +14.29% 40
West Midlands -14 56 £65,000 +48.57% 15
North West +9 49 £57,500 +23.66% 24
North East -40 34 £65,000 +15.04% 9
Yorkshire -33 20 £50,000 +8.70% 6
London -82 20 £42,500 -29.17% 73
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 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.49%) Confluence
3 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (3.74%) Simulink
2 12 (1.95%) SOLIDWORKS
3 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.49%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.33%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.33%) MicroStation
5 2 (0.33%) Revit
5 2 (0.33%) Weka
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.46%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 46 (7.48%) Azure
2 24 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (3.25%) AWS
4 12 (1.95%) Entra ID
5 5 (0.81%) GitHub
5 5 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (0.81%) SaaS
6 4 (0.65%) Azure Stack
6 4 (0.65%) GCP
6 4 (0.65%) Nutanix
7 3 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.49%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (0.49%) Cohesity
8 2 (0.33%) AWS IoT
8 2 (0.33%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.16%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.16%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.16%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.16%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.16%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 48 (7.80%) Wireless
2 31 (5.04%) VLAN
3 28 (4.55%) Firewall
3 28 (4.55%) WAN
4 27 (4.39%) TCP/IP
5 26 (4.23%) Bluetooth
6 25 (4.07%) VPN
7 21 (3.41%) Modbus
7 21 (3.41%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (2.93%) LAN
9 17 (2.76%) LTE
10 16 (2.60%) DNS
10 16 (2.60%) SAN
11 13 (2.11%) RS-232
12 12 (1.95%) DHCP
12 12 (1.95%) RS-485
12 12 (1.95%) SD-WAN
13 11 (1.79%) Ethernet
13 11 (1.79%) Network Security
14 9 (1.46%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.16%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (3.09%) Git
2 16 (2.60%) JIRA
3 14 (2.28%) Rational DOORS
4 13 (2.11%) LabVIEW
5 10 (1.63%) Eclipse
6 8 (1.30%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.14%) GitLab
8 4 (0.65%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.49%) Postman
10 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.33%) GDB
10 2 (0.33%) MLflow
10 2 (0.33%) Rational Rhapsody
10 2 (0.33%) Subversion
11 1 (0.16%) GoogleTest
11 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 224 (36.42%) Electronics
2 122 (19.84%) Social Skills
3 87 (14.15%) Manufacturing
4 45 (7.32%) Aerospace
5 44 (7.15%) Automotive
6 40 (6.50%) Analytical Skills
7 38 (6.18%) Finance
8 23 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.76%) Legal
10 11 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.14%) Military
12 7 (1.14%) Music Industry
13 6 (0.98%) Advertising
13 6 (0.98%) Law
13 6 (0.98%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.49%) Retail
14 3 (0.49%) Social Housing
15 2 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.33%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 148 (24.07%) Software Engineer
2 132 (21.46%) Embedded Engineer
3 106 (17.24%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 101 (16.42%) Electronics Engineer
4 101 (16.42%) Senior
5 75 (12.20%) Lead
6 62 (10.08%) Design Engineer
7 52 (8.46%) Firmware Engineer
8 44 (7.15%) FPGA Engineer
9 42 (6.83%) Electronics Design Engineer
10 41 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
11 38 (6.18%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 31 (5.04%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 29 (4.72%) Systems Engineer
14 23 (3.74%) Senior Electronics Engineer
15 22 (3.58%) Technical Leader
16 21 (3.41%) Test Engineer
17 18 (2.93%) Cybersecurity Engineer
17 18 (2.93%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
17 18 (2.93%) QA Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.14%) Terraform
2 6 (0.98%) .NET
2 6 (0.98%) Yocto
3 4 (0.65%) REST
4 3 (0.49%) Node.js
4 3 (0.49%) React
5 2 (0.33%) LangChain
5 2 (0.33%) React Native
5 2 (0.33%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.33%) WPF
6 1 (0.16%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.16%) GStreamer
6 1 (0.16%) JWT
6 1 (0.16%) Micronaut
6 1 (0.16%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.16%) QML
6 1 (0.16%) Qt
6 1 (0.16%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.16%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.16%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 110 (17.89%) Embedded Systems
2 73 (11.87%) FPGA
3 68 (11.06%) Analogue Electronics
4 42 (6.83%) Algorithms
5 40 (6.50%) VHDL
6 35 (5.69%) IoT
7 32 (5.20%) Driving Licence
8 21 (3.41%) Raspberry Pi
9 18 (2.93%) PCIe
10 17 (2.76%) Data Centre
10 17 (2.76%) Verilog
11 13 (2.11%) ARM Cortex
11 13 (2.11%) Enterprise Storage
11 13 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (2.11%) Robotics
12 11 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (1.63%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.46%) Acoustics
14 9 (1.46%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 53 (8.62%) Windows
2 46 (7.48%) Linux
3 27 (4.39%) FreeRTOS
4 22 (3.58%) Windows Server
5 17 (2.76%) Embedded Linux
6 8 (1.30%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.65%) Android
9 3 (0.49%) VxWorks
10 2 (0.33%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.16%) Debian
11 1 (0.16%) macOS
11 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.16%) SUSE
11 1 (0.16%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.16%) ThreadX
11 1 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (30.24%) Software Engineering
2 96 (15.61%) Validation
3 79 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
4 67 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 65 (10.57%) Mentoring
6 54 (8.78%) Test Automation
7 51 (8.29%) Signal Processing
8 49 (7.97%) Schematic Capture
9 45 (7.32%) Cybersecurity
9 45 (7.32%) Root Cause Analysis
10 43 (6.99%) Technical Leadership
11 37 (6.02%) Customer Service
12 36 (5.85%) Software Testing
13 35 (5.69%) Prototyping
14 33 (5.37%) Digital Signal Processing
15 32 (5.20%) Disaster Recovery
16 31 (5.04%) FPGA Design
17 30 (4.88%) Agile
17 30 (4.88%) CAD
18 27 (4.39%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 190 (30.89%) C
2 121 (19.67%) C++
3 63 (10.24%) Embedded C
4 61 (9.92%) Python
5 30 (4.88%) MATLAB
6 15 (2.44%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.28%) Java
7 14 (2.28%) Rust
8 13 (2.11%) Assembly Language
8 13 (2.11%) Embedded C++
9 12 (1.95%) C#
10 3 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.49%) SQL
11 2 (0.33%) Ada
11 2 (0.33%) Bash
11 2 (0.33%) Go
11 2 (0.33%) Perl
12 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.16%) Tcl
12 1 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 133 (21.63%) Degree
2 81 (13.17%) Security Cleared
3 49 (7.97%) SC Cleared
4 42 (6.83%) DV Cleared
5 18 (2.93%) HND
6 17 (2.76%) HNC
7 16 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.95%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.30%) CCNP
10 6 (0.98%) CCNA
11 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.49%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.49%) PhD
14 2 (0.33%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 1 (0.16%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.41%) QA
2 17 (2.76%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.46%) GDPR
5 8 (1.30%) MISRA
6 6 (0.98%) SLA
7 5 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.65%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.65%) JTAG
9 3 (0.49%) DO-254
10 1 (0.16%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.16%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.16%) HAZOP
10 1 (0.16%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 191 (31.06%) Embedded Firmware
2 32 (5.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (4.72%) Active Directory
4 26 (4.23%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.95%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (1.30%) vSphere
7 5 (0.81%) QEMU
7 5 (0.81%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.49%) Docker
9 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.16%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (1.46%) Ansible
2 6 (0.98%) FortiGate
3 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.81%) VxRail
4 4 (0.65%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.33%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (0.33%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.33%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.16%) Grafana
6 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (7.64%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.67%) EMC
3 35 (5.69%) VMware
4 34 (5.53%) Cisco
5 20 (3.25%) Fortinet
5 20 (3.25%) Xilinx
6 12 (1.95%) Dell
7 10 (1.63%) Altera
8 9 (1.46%) Meraki
8 9 (1.46%) Veeam
9 6 (0.98%) Freshdesk
9 6 (0.98%) HP
10 5 (0.81%) Motorola
10 5 (0.81%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.81%) SonicWALL
11 4 (0.65%) F5
11 4 (0.65%) Infoblox
11 4 (0.65%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.65%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.65%) WatchGuard