Firmware Jobs in England

Firmware
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Firmware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firmware over the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 309 554
Rank change year-on-year -132 +245 +27
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 222 756 444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.89% 0.47%
As % of the System Software category 4.37% 6.86% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 158 559 301
10th Percentile £36,025 £32,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% +10.53% -13.64%

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 5,076 11,013 14,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.00% 13.00% 15.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,672 8,937 9,837
10th Percentile £28,275 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -3.51%
75th Percentile £79,000 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -3.51%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in England

Firmware
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firmware in England.

Salary trend for Firmware in England

Firmware
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

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 25 April 2025. 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 West +66 40 £70,000 +27.27% 73
South East -80 40 £61,250 +22.50% 161
Midlands -11 38 £50,000 -9.09% 33
East of England -7 37 £53,500 -4.04% 135
North of England -16 33 £47,683 -9.18% 81
London +65 30 £66,250 +17.78% 122
North West -6 23 £47,683 -13.30% 36
West Midlands -4 21 £51,251 -16.67% 20
East Midlands +24 17 £47,500 -5.00% 10
Yorkshire +43 6 £62,500 +47.06% 36
North East +42 4 £61,000 +10.91% 10
Firmware
UK

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (1.35%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 28 (12.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.25%) Simulink
3 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.90%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (8.11%) Azure
2 12 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (3.60%) AWS
4 5 (2.25%) GitHub
5 4 (1.80%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.35%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.90%) IaaS
7 2 (0.90%) PaaS
7 2 (0.90%) SaaS
8 1 (0.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.61%) Firewall
2 26 (11.71%) Wireless
3 24 (10.81%) Wi-Fi
4 19 (8.56%) WAN
5 16 (7.21%) VPN
6 14 (6.31%) Bluetooth
6 14 (6.31%) SD-WAN
7 13 (5.86%) LAN
8 11 (4.95%) DNS
8 11 (4.95%) ZigBee
9 10 (4.50%) DHCP
9 10 (4.50%) Network Security
10 9 (4.05%) Modbus
10 9 (4.05%) RS-232
10 9 (4.05%) TCP/IP
11 8 (3.60%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (3.60%) Internet
11 8 (3.60%) RS-485
11 8 (3.60%) VLAN
12 7 (3.15%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (5.86%) JIRA
2 11 (4.95%) Git
3 6 (2.70%) Eclipse
4 3 (1.35%) GDB
5 2 (0.90%) Subversion
6 1 (0.45%) Appium
6 1 (0.45%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.45%) TestRail
General
1 92 (41.44%) Electronics
2 77 (34.68%) Social Skills
3 18 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (8.11%) Aviation
3 18 (8.11%) Finance
4 15 (6.76%) Manufacturing
5 13 (5.86%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.25%) Automotive
8 5 (2.25%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.80%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.80%) Police
9 4 (1.80%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.80%) Wearables
10 3 (1.35%) Banking
10 3 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.90%) Marketing
12 1 (0.45%) Law
12 1 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 82 (36.94%) Senior
2 40 (18.02%) Embedded Engineer
3 35 (15.77%) Electronics Engineer
4 31 (13.96%) Senior Electronics Engineer
5 30 (13.51%) Software Engineer
6 28 (12.61%) Design Engineer
7 26 (11.71%) Electronics Design Engineer
8 25 (11.26%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 24 (10.81%) Network Engineer
10 22 (9.91%) Senior Design Engineer
10 22 (9.91%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
11 21 (9.46%) Lead
11 21 (9.46%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 20 (9.01%) Hardware Engineer
13 19 (8.56%) Firmware Engineer
14 18 (8.11%) FPGA Engineer
14 18 (8.11%) Senior Software Engineer
15 17 (7.66%) Radar Engineer
16 15 (6.76%) Analyst
16 15 (6.76%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.05%) .NET
2 4 (1.80%) REST
3 3 (1.35%) OpenCL
3 3 (1.35%) OpenEmbedded
3 3 (1.35%) SAML
3 3 (1.35%) Yocto
4 2 (0.90%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.90%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.90%) Middleware
5 1 (0.45%) HTML
5 1 (0.45%) JSON
5 1 (0.45%) Laravel
5 1 (0.45%) RESTful
5 1 (0.45%) Vue
5 1 (0.45%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.67%) FPGA
2 36 (16.22%) VHDL
3 35 (15.77%) Embedded Systems
4 22 (9.91%) Optoelectronics
5 15 (6.76%) Analogue Electronics
5 15 (6.76%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.50%) Verilog
7 9 (4.05%) MicroBlaze
8 8 (3.60%) GNSS
8 8 (3.60%) Life Science
8 8 (3.60%) Satnav
9 7 (3.15%) IoT
10 6 (2.70%) ARM Cortex
10 6 (2.70%) Device Driver
10 6 (2.70%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.80%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.35%) CUDA
12 3 (1.35%) iPad
12 3 (1.35%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 44 (19.82%) Windows
2 37 (16.67%) Linux
3 15 (6.76%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.60%) FreeRTOS
5 7 (3.15%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (2.25%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.90%) Android
9 1 (0.45%) CentOS
9 1 (0.45%) Rocky
9 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.45%) Unix
9 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (23.87%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (19.37%) Software Engineering
3 39 (17.57%) Prototyping
3 39 (17.57%) Schematic Capture
4 30 (13.51%) Requirements Analysis
5 22 (9.91%) Stress Analysis
6 21 (9.46%) Change Management
6 21 (9.46%) Mentoring
7 20 (9.01%) FPGA Design
8 17 (7.66%) Agile
8 17 (7.66%) Safety Engineering
8 17 (7.66%) Systems Engineering
8 17 (7.66%) Validation
9 15 (6.76%) Scrum
10 14 (6.31%) Signal Processing
11 13 (5.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 12 (5.41%) Innovative Thinking
12 12 (5.41%) ITIL
12 12 (5.41%) Verification and Validation
13 11 (4.95%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (33.78%) C
2 53 (23.87%) C++
3 19 (8.56%) C#
4 18 (8.11%) Python
5 15 (6.76%) MATLAB
6 8 (3.60%) Perl
6 8 (3.60%) Tcl
6 8 (3.60%) VB
7 7 (3.15%) Embedded C
7 7 (3.15%) Java
7 7 (3.15%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.70%) Ada
8 6 (2.70%) Embedded C++
9 5 (2.25%) SQL
10 3 (1.35%) Assembly Language
10 3 (1.35%) Bash
11 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.45%) R
11 1 (0.45%) Rust
11 1 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 70 (31.53%) Degree
2 17 (7.66%) BPSS Clearance
2 17 (7.66%) CEH
3 12 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (4.50%) CCNA
4 10 (4.50%) CCNP
5 8 (3.60%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.25%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.35%) MCSA
7 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.90%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.90%) MCP
8 2 (0.90%) PhD
8 2 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.45%) MCITP
9 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.45%) PMP
9 1 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.11%) DO-254
2 9 (4.05%) QA
3 5 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.80%) AUTOSAR
5 3 (1.35%) Automotive SPICE
5 3 (1.35%) JTAG
5 3 (1.35%) SLA
6 2 (0.90%) MISRA
6 2 (0.90%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 67 (30.18%) Embedded Firmware
2 13 (5.86%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.70%) BitLocker
4 4 (1.80%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.90%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.90%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.90%) vSphere
6 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (4.05%) SCCM
1 9 (4.05%) WSUS
2 4 (1.80%) Ansible
3 3 (1.35%) Dell DRAC
3 3 (1.35%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.90%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (0.90%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.90%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.90%) vRealize
4 2 (0.90%) VxRail
5 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (17.57%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.81%) Cisco
3 14 (6.31%) Meraki
3 14 (6.31%) Xilinx
4 12 (5.41%) CheckPoint
4 12 (5.41%) EMC
4 12 (5.41%) Fortinet
5 11 (4.95%) HP
5 11 (4.95%) SolarWinds
6 9 (4.05%) VMware
7 8 (3.60%) Altera
7 8 (3.60%) Apple
7 8 (3.60%) Dell
7 8 (3.60%) Green Hills
8 7 (3.15%) Infoblox
9 6 (2.70%) MobileIron
9 6 (2.70%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.25%) Cadence
10 5 (2.25%) McAfee
11 4 (1.80%) Aruba