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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 410 333
Rank change year-on-year +36 -77 +185
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 406 257 720
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.60% 0.80%
As % of the System Software category 8.06% 4.58% 7.02%
Number of salaries quoted 323 178 572
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,100 £32,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% +18.03%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,625 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +10.48% +5.00%

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 5,039 5,608 10,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.82% 13.19% 11.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,750 3,559 8,107
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,313 £33,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,058 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.82% +3.15% -10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £86,100
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.91%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +20 153 £65,000 +7.88% 66
North of England +15 77 £54,750 +17.74% 34
South West -20 56 £60,000 +14.29% 32
East of England -7 55 £80,000 +33.33% 41
Midlands -18 49 £54,000 +13.68% 27
Yorkshire -1 39 £55,000 +19.57% 6
West Midlands -9 28 £65,000 +43.97% 11
North West +10 27 £54,750 +14.82% 25
East Midlands -26 20 £54,000 +13.68% 16
London -47 13 £70,000 +12.90% 36
North East - 11 £51,000 - 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 (0.74%) Confluence
2 1 (0.25%) Kinematics
Applications
1 14 (3.45%) Simulink
2 5 (1.23%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.49%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (2.96%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (6.65%) Azure
2 13 (3.20%) AWS
2 13 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (1.23%) SaaS
4 3 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (0.74%) Amazon S3
4 3 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (0.74%) Serverless
5 2 (0.49%) AWS IoT
5 2 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (0.49%) GCP
5 2 (0.49%) GitHub
5 2 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.25%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.25%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.25%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 31 (7.64%) Wireless
2 29 (7.14%) Bluetooth
3 24 (5.91%) Firewall
4 21 (5.17%) Modbus
5 15 (3.69%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (3.20%) Ethernet
6 13 (3.20%) RS-232
7 12 (2.96%) TCP/IP
8 11 (2.71%) RS-485
8 11 (2.71%) VPN
8 11 (2.71%) WAN
9 10 (2.46%) Profibus
9 10 (2.46%) VLAN
9 10 (2.46%) ZigBee
10 9 (2.22%) LTE
11 7 (1.72%) SAN
11 7 (1.72%) Software-Defined Radio
12 6 (1.48%) RFID
13 4 (0.99%) BGP
13 4 (0.99%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.49%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (5.17%) Git
2 15 (3.69%) Rational DOORS
3 8 (1.97%) JIRA
4 6 (1.48%) Eclipse
4 6 (1.48%) LabVIEW
4 6 (1.48%) Subversion
5 4 (0.99%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.74%) GitLab
6 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.49%) MLflow
7 2 (0.49%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.49%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.25%) GDB
8 1 (0.25%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.25%) Polyspace
8 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.25%) VectorCAST
8 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 131 (32.27%) Electronics
2 49 (12.07%) Social Skills
3 45 (11.08%) Manufacturing
4 33 (8.13%) Automotive
5 21 (5.17%) Aerospace
6 10 (2.46%) Military
6 10 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (1.72%) Finance
8 6 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.48%) Retail
9 5 (1.23%) Marketing
9 5 (1.23%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (0.74%) Games
11 3 (0.74%) Law
11 3 (0.74%) Wearables
12 2 (0.49%) Advertising
12 2 (0.49%) Aviation
12 2 (0.49%) Avionics
12 2 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (35.96%) Software Engineer
2 139 (34.24%) Embedded Engineer
3 98 (24.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 75 (18.47%) Senior
5 52 (12.81%) Firmware Engineer
6 44 (10.84%) Senior Software Engineer
7 38 (9.36%) Lead
7 38 (9.36%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 34 (8.37%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 28 (6.90%) FPGA Engineer
10 27 (6.65%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
11 25 (6.16%) Electronics Engineer
12 24 (5.91%) Systems Engineer
13 20 (4.93%) Design Engineer
13 20 (4.93%) Technical Leader
14 16 (3.94%) Senior Firmware Engineer
14 16 (3.94%) Test Engineer
15 14 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (3.20%) Hardware Engineer
17 12 (2.96%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.20%) .NET
2 5 (1.23%) WPF
3 4 (0.99%) Node.js
3 4 (0.99%) React
3 4 (0.99%) WebSockets
3 4 (0.99%) Yocto
4 3 (0.74%) .NET Framework
4 3 (0.74%) Avalonia
4 3 (0.74%) OpenCV
5 2 (0.49%) LangChain
5 2 (0.49%) React Native
5 2 (0.49%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.25%) Flash
6 1 (0.25%) GStreamer
6 1 (0.25%) Middleware
6 1 (0.25%) pytest
6 1 (0.25%) Spring
6 1 (0.25%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.25%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 87 (21.43%) Embedded Systems
2 50 (12.32%) FPGA
3 46 (11.33%) Algorithms
3 46 (11.33%) IoT
4 27 (6.65%) VHDL
5 23 (5.67%) Analogue Electronics
5 23 (5.67%) PCIe
6 16 (3.94%) Data Centre
6 16 (3.94%) Driving Licence
7 15 (3.69%) Enterprise Storage
8 14 (3.45%) ARM Cortex
8 14 (3.45%) Raspberry Pi
9 12 (2.96%) NVMe
9 12 (2.96%) Verilog
10 11 (2.71%) iSeries
10 11 (2.71%) Replication
11 10 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.97%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.23%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 34 (8.37%) Linux
2 32 (7.88%) FreeRTOS
3 17 (4.19%) Windows
4 15 (3.69%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (0.99%) Android
6 2 (0.49%) ThreadX
6 2 (0.49%) Unix
6 2 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.25%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.25%) SafeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (41.38%) Software Engineering
2 49 (12.07%) Validation
3 43 (10.59%) Signal Processing
4 40 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 40 (9.85%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
5 29 (7.14%) Software Testing
6 28 (6.90%) Test Automation
7 25 (6.16%) Mentoring
7 25 (6.16%) Roadmaps
8 24 (5.91%) Digital Signal Processing
8 24 (5.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 23 (5.67%) Embedded Software Development
9 23 (5.67%) Technical Leadership
10 22 (5.42%) AI
10 22 (5.42%) Computer Science
11 20 (4.93%) DevOps
12 19 (4.68%) Schematic Capture
12 19 (4.68%) System Testing
13 18 (4.43%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 139 (34.24%) C
2 99 (24.38%) C++
3 60 (14.78%) Python
4 47 (11.58%) Embedded C
5 26 (6.40%) C#
6 20 (4.93%) MATLAB
7 15 (3.69%) Assembly Language
8 12 (2.96%) Embedded C++
9 8 (1.97%) Rust
10 6 (1.48%) Java
11 3 (0.74%) PHP
11 3 (0.74%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.74%) SQL
12 2 (0.49%) Bash
12 2 (0.49%) Go
12 2 (0.49%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 62 (15.27%) Degree
2 49 (12.07%) Security Cleared
3 34 (8.37%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.42%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.48%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.23%) PhD
7 4 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.99%) HND
8 3 (0.74%) CCNA
8 3 (0.74%) CCNP
9 2 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.49%) HNC
9 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.25%) CCA
10 1 (0.25%) ISEB
10 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.19%) QA
2 8 (1.97%) ISO 9001
2 8 (1.97%) MISRA
3 7 (1.72%) IEC 61508
4 6 (1.48%) SLA
5 5 (1.23%) MISRA C
6 4 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 3 (0.74%) JTAG
8 2 (0.49%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.49%) NCSC
9 1 (0.25%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.25%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.25%) DO-254
9 1 (0.25%) HAZOP
9 1 (0.25%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.25%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 142 (34.98%) Embedded Firmware
2 17 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.69%) Active Directory
4 13 (3.20%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.72%) Docker
6 3 (0.74%) QEMU
7 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (1.48%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.99%) Puppet
2 4 (0.99%) Terraform
3 3 (0.74%) Ansible
3 3 (0.74%) Dell DRAC
3 3 (0.74%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.49%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.25%) Grafana
5 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (6.40%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.42%) EMC
3 17 (4.19%) Cisco
3 17 (4.19%) VMware
4 16 (3.94%) Altera
5 14 (3.45%) Xilinx
6 12 (2.96%) HP
7 11 (2.71%) Commvault
7 11 (2.71%) IBM
7 11 (2.71%) Veeam
8 10 (2.46%) Fortinet
9 8 (1.97%) Dell
10 6 (1.48%) Freshdesk
11 4 (0.99%) Atmel
11 4 (0.99%) Google
11 4 (0.99%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.99%) SAP
12 3 (0.74%) Meraki
13 2 (0.49%) NVIDIA
13 2 (0.49%) Palo Alto