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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 423 304
Rank change year-on-year +10 -119 +256
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 263 190 721
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.52% 0.91%
As % of the System Software category 6.38% 4.03% 6.70%
Number of salaries quoted 207 129 540
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,100 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,384 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% +5.49% +11.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,500 £82,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% +9.95%

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 4,123 4,716 10,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.77% 12.89% 13.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,999 3,653 9,011
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +13.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,425 £56,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.75% +13.00% -9.09%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 +1 70 £58,000 -3.33% 71
North of England -14 67 £55,000 -4.35% 31
Yorkshire -17 42 £55,000 -26.67% 12
London +2 40 £62,000 +3.33% 29
South West -42 35 £60,000 -17.24% 32
Midlands -51 27 £54,000 +4.10% 33
East of England -34 20 £50,000 -9.09% 43
North West -16 19 £57,500 +14.43% 15
West Midlands -18 17 £62,500 +16.62% 20
East Midlands -48 9 £54,000 +13.68% 13
North East -21 6 £56,500 -7.38% 4
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 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.38%) Kinematics
2 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.52%) Simulink
2 2 (0.76%) OrCAD
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.04%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (10.27%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (6.46%) Azure
3 11 (4.18%) Entra ID
4 8 (3.04%) AWS
5 4 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.14%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.14%) SaaS
6 3 (1.14%) Serverless
7 1 (0.38%) AWS IoT
7 1 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.38%) GCP
7 1 (0.38%) GitHub
7 1 (0.38%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.38%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (13.31%) Firewall
2 17 (6.46%) Wi-Fi
2 17 (6.46%) Wireless
3 14 (5.32%) Cisco IOS
3 14 (5.32%) WAN
4 13 (4.94%) Bluetooth
4 13 (4.94%) Cisco ISE
4 13 (4.94%) DNS
5 12 (4.56%) NX-OS
6 11 (4.18%) Ethernet
6 11 (4.18%) LAN
6 11 (4.18%) TCP/IP
7 10 (3.80%) VLAN
8 9 (3.42%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (3.42%) Junos
8 9 (3.42%) VPN
9 8 (3.04%) Modbus
10 6 (2.28%) DHCP
10 6 (2.28%) RFID
11 5 (1.90%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.38%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.38%) MySQL
3 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (4.18%) Rational DOORS
2 8 (3.04%) Git
3 6 (2.28%) Eclipse
3 6 (2.28%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.52%) Subversion
5 3 (1.14%) JIRA
6 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.38%) GitLab
6 1 (0.38%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.38%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.38%) Selenium
6 1 (0.38%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (27.38%) Electronics
2 46 (17.49%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.37%) Manufacturing
4 20 (7.60%) Finance
5 14 (5.32%) Aerospace
6 11 (4.18%) Automotive
6 11 (4.18%) Military
7 6 (2.28%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.90%) Law
9 4 (1.52%) Avionics
9 4 (1.52%) Marketing
9 4 (1.52%) Retail
10 3 (1.14%) Games
11 2 (0.76%) Aviation
11 2 (0.76%) Banking
11 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 95 (36.12%) Embedded Engineer
2 76 (28.90%) Software Engineer
3 54 (20.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 39 (14.83%) Senior
5 36 (13.69%) Firmware Engineer
6 29 (11.03%) Network Engineer
7 26 (9.89%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
8 20 (7.60%) Electronics Engineer
9 16 (6.08%) Design Engineer
10 13 (4.94%) FPGA Engineer
10 13 (4.94%) Lead
10 13 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (4.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.56%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 11 (4.18%) Electronics Design Engineer
12 11 (4.18%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 10 (3.80%) Systems Engineer
14 9 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (3.42%) Senior Firmware Engineer
14 9 (3.42%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.04%) .NET
2 5 (1.90%) WebSockets
3 4 (1.52%) Node.js
3 4 (1.52%) React
4 3 (1.14%) .NET Framework
4 3 (1.14%) Avalonia
4 3 (1.14%) OpenCV
4 3 (1.14%) WPF
5 2 (0.76%) Middleware
5 2 (0.76%) Next.js
5 2 (0.76%) Yocto
6 1 (0.38%) Django
6 1 (0.38%) Flash
6 1 (0.38%) React Native
6 1 (0.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.73%) IoT
2 32 (12.17%) Embedded Systems
3 21 (7.98%) FPGA
4 17 (6.46%) Algorithms
5 15 (5.70%) Analogue Electronics
6 14 (5.32%) Management Information System
6 14 (5.32%) PCIe
7 11 (4.18%) Driving Licence
7 11 (4.18%) VHDL
8 10 (3.80%) PKI
9 9 (3.42%) Onboarding
10 8 (3.04%) NVMe
10 8 (3.04%) Raspberry Pi
11 7 (2.66%) Data Centre
12 6 (2.28%) ARM Cortex
12 6 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (2.28%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (1.90%) CMDB
13 5 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (1.90%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.65%) Linux
2 27 (10.27%) Windows
3 13 (4.94%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.56%) FreeRTOS
5 10 (3.80%) Android
6 4 (1.52%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.38%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.38%) SafeRTOS
7 1 (0.38%) ThreadX
7 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (32.32%) Software Engineering
2 33 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (9.13%) Mentoring
3 24 (9.13%) Roadmaps
4 22 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (7.98%) Validation
6 19 (7.22%) Kalman Filter
7 18 (6.84%) Change Management
8 17 (6.46%) Software Testing
9 16 (6.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (5.70%) Change Control
11 14 (5.32%) AI
11 14 (5.32%) Embedded Software Development
11 14 (5.32%) ITSM
11 14 (5.32%) Root Cause Analysis
11 14 (5.32%) Task Automation
12 13 (4.94%) Service Management
12 13 (4.94%) System Testing
12 13 (4.94%) Technology Roadmap
13 12 (4.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (28.90%) C
2 63 (23.95%) C++
3 36 (13.69%) Python
4 30 (11.41%) Embedded C
5 19 (7.22%) C#
6 16 (6.08%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.32%) Embedded C++
8 8 (3.04%) Assembly Language
9 6 (2.28%) Java
9 6 (2.28%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.52%) Bash
10 4 (1.52%) SQL
10 4 (1.52%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.14%) PHP
11 3 (1.14%) Rust
12 2 (0.76%) Go
13 1 (0.38%) Groovy
13 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (15.59%) Degree
2 37 (14.07%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.75%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.46%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.56%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (4.18%) CCNP
7 10 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.66%) CCNA
8 7 (2.66%) Network+ Certification
9 6 (2.28%) PhD
10 5 (1.90%) CCIE
10 5 (1.90%) DBS Check
10 5 (1.90%) JNCIA
10 5 (1.90%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.52%) HND
11 4 (1.52%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.14%) HNC
13 2 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.42%) ISO 9001
1 9 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.28%) MISRA
3 5 (1.90%) GRC
3 5 (1.90%) IEC 61508
3 5 (1.90%) SLA
4 4 (1.52%) MISRA C
4 4 (1.52%) QA
5 3 (1.14%) GDPR
5 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (0.76%) JTAG
6 2 (0.76%) NCSC
6 2 (0.76%) NIST
7 1 (0.38%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.38%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.38%) DO-254
7 1 (0.38%) HAZOP
7 1 (0.38%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (27.38%) Embedded Firmware
2 21 (7.98%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.42%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.04%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (2.28%) Docker
7 1 (0.38%) NFS
7 1 (0.38%) QEMU
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (5.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (4.18%) Ansible
3 9 (3.42%) SCCM
3 9 (3.42%) vCenter Server
4 7 (2.66%) Terraform
5 5 (1.90%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.52%) Puppet
7 3 (1.14%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.76%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.38%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 51 (19.39%) Cisco
2 24 (9.13%) Microsoft
3 23 (8.75%) Juniper
4 21 (7.98%) Fortinet
5 15 (5.70%) EMC
6 13 (4.94%) SolarWinds
6 13 (4.94%) VMware
7 12 (4.56%) Altera
8 9 (3.42%) Broadcom
9 8 (3.04%) Xilinx
10 7 (2.66%) Dell
11 4 (1.52%) Apple
11 4 (1.52%) Atmel
11 4 (1.52%) ConnectWise
11 4 (1.52%) Draytek
11 4 (1.52%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.52%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.52%) SAP
11 4 (1.52%) Veeam
12 3 (1.14%) Adobe