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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 368 300
Rank change year-on-year -31 -68 +269
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 226 345 463
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.72% 0.94%
As % of the System Software category 6.01% 5.59% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 175 146 306
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,256 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £49,125 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,938 £60,938
90th Percentile £81,500 £80,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -3.64%

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 3,760 6,177 7,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.12% 12.83% 16.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,748 3,693 6,511
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,790 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -

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 January 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 January 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
North of England +30 57 £55,000 -0.90% 35
South East -16 53 £55,000 - 92
London +81 51 £60,000 +9.09% 23
Yorkshire +10 29 £55,000 +35.72% 19
Midlands -11 26 £50,000 -22.18% 29
North West +27 20 £46,500 -9.71% 12
West Midlands +16 20 £52,500 -17.32% 11
East of England +3 19 £71,250 +34.43% 50
South West -44 19 £52,500 -19.23% 50
North East +4 8 £56,500 -0.44% 4
East Midlands -35 6 £25,750 -63.21% 17
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 6 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.44%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.44%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 36 (15.93%) Microsoft 365
2 29 (12.83%) Azure
3 22 (9.73%) Entra ID
4 12 (5.31%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (1.77%) AWS
5 4 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.33%) GCP
7 1 (0.44%) AWS IoT
7 1 (0.44%) GitHub
7 1 (0.44%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.44%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.44%) Rubrik
7 1 (0.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (15.93%) Firewall
2 18 (7.96%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (7.52%) DNS
3 17 (7.52%) Wireless
4 16 (7.08%) WAN
5 15 (6.64%) Software-Defined Radio
6 14 (6.19%) Cisco IOS
7 13 (5.75%) NX-OS
8 12 (5.31%) Cisco ISE
9 11 (4.87%) DHCP
9 11 (4.87%) LAN
10 10 (4.42%) TCP/IP
10 10 (4.42%) VLAN
10 10 (4.42%) VPN
11 9 (3.98%) Cisco Firepower
11 9 (3.98%) Junos
12 8 (3.54%) Internet
13 6 (2.65%) Network Security
13 6 (2.65%) RS-232
14 5 (2.21%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.88%) Big Data
2 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.44%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.44%) MySQL
3 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (4.87%) Visual Studio
2 7 (3.10%) Git
3 5 (2.21%) GitLab
4 3 (1.33%) Eclipse
4 3 (1.33%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.88%) JIRA
6 1 (0.44%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.44%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.44%) Selenium
6 1 (0.44%) Subversion
6 1 (0.44%) WebDriver
General
1 53 (23.45%) Electronics
2 50 (22.12%) Social Skills
3 31 (13.72%) Finance
4 22 (9.73%) Manufacturing
5 14 (6.19%) Automotive
6 13 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.75%) Law
7 7 (3.10%) Legal
8 6 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.65%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.21%) Military
10 4 (1.77%) Banking
11 3 (1.33%) Advertising
11 3 (1.33%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.88%) Avionics
13 1 (0.44%) Back Office
13 1 (0.44%) Billing
13 1 (0.44%) Games
13 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 71 (31.42%) Embedded Engineer
2 48 (21.24%) Software Engineer
3 34 (15.04%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 33 (14.60%) Firmware Engineer
5 31 (13.72%) Network Engineer
6 23 (10.18%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 21 (9.29%) Electronics Engineer
8 20 (8.85%) Senior
9 18 (7.96%) Design Engineer
10 14 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (5.75%) IT Support
12 12 (5.31%) C++ Software Engineer
13 11 (4.87%) Electronics Design Engineer
13 11 (4.87%) IT Engineer
13 11 (4.87%) Lead
14 10 (4.42%) C# Software Engineer
14 10 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (4.42%) IT Support Engineer
14 10 (4.42%) Support Engineer
14 10 (4.42%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.98%) Flash
2 2 (0.88%) .NET
2 2 (0.88%) Next.js
2 2 (0.88%) Node.js
2 2 (0.88%) React
2 2 (0.88%) WebSockets
3 1 (0.44%) Django
3 1 (0.44%) Middleware
3 1 (0.44%) React Native
3 1 (0.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 39 (17.26%) Embedded Systems
2 26 (11.50%) IoT
3 13 (5.75%) RISC-V
4 11 (4.87%) e-Learning
4 11 (4.87%) MicroBlaze
4 11 (4.87%) Onboarding
5 10 (4.42%) Analogue Electronics
6 9 (3.98%) FPGA
6 9 (3.98%) PKI
7 7 (3.10%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.10%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (2.65%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.65%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.65%) SCADA
9 5 (2.21%) CMDB
9 5 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.77%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 44 (19.47%) Windows
2 33 (14.60%) Linux
3 16 (7.08%) Windows Server
4 15 (6.64%) Embedded Linux
5 7 (3.10%) Android
6 5 (2.21%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (27.88%) Software Engineering
2 33 (14.60%) Mentoring
3 28 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (10.62%) Agile
5 23 (10.18%) Signal Processing
6 22 (9.73%) Digital Signal Processing
7 19 (8.41%) Innovative Thinking
8 18 (7.96%) Vulnerability Management
9 17 (7.52%) ITSM
9 17 (7.52%) Task Automation
9 17 (7.52%) Validation
10 16 (7.08%) Change Management
10 16 (7.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (7.08%) Service Management
11 15 (6.64%) AI
11 15 (6.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (6.64%) ITIL
11 15 (6.64%) Kalman Filter
12 14 (6.19%) Change Control
12 14 (6.19%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 74 (32.74%) C
2 57 (25.22%) C++
3 35 (15.49%) Embedded C
4 27 (11.95%) Python
5 23 (10.18%) PowerShell
6 16 (7.08%) Embedded C++
7 14 (6.19%) C#
8 7 (3.10%) SQL
9 5 (2.21%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.77%) Bash
10 4 (1.77%) Java
11 2 (0.88%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.44%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.44%) Groovy
12 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 43 (19.03%) Security Cleared
2 33 (14.60%) SC Cleared
3 32 (14.16%) Degree
4 13 (5.75%) CCNP
4 13 (5.75%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (5.31%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.65%) NVQ Level 3
9 5 (2.21%) CCIE
9 5 (2.21%) CCNA
9 5 (2.21%) DBS Check
9 5 (2.21%) JNCIA
9 5 (2.21%) JNCIP
9 5 (2.21%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (1.77%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.88%) HNC
11 2 (0.88%) PhD
12 1 (0.44%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.65%) MISRA
3 5 (2.21%) GRC
3 5 (2.21%) SLA
4 4 (1.77%) GDPR
5 3 (1.33%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.33%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.88%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.88%) ISO 9000
6 2 (0.88%) JTAG
6 2 (0.88%) NIST
7 1 (0.44%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.44%) GxP
7 1 (0.44%) QA
System Software
1 79 (34.96%) Embedded Firmware
2 29 (12.83%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.98%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.21%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.77%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.88%) Docker
8 1 (0.44%) NFS
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (10.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (7.08%) SCCM
3 10 (4.42%) Ansible
3 10 (4.42%) Terraform
3 10 (4.42%) vCenter Server
4 4 (1.77%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (1.33%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.33%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.44%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 55 (24.34%) Cisco
2 29 (12.83%) Microsoft
3 26 (11.50%) Juniper
4 20 (8.85%) Fortinet
5 17 (7.52%) EMC
6 16 (7.08%) SolarWinds
6 16 (7.08%) VMware
7 10 (4.42%) Palo Alto
8 9 (3.98%) Broadcom
9 8 (3.54%) Apple
10 5 (2.21%) Dell
10 5 (2.21%) HP
11 4 (1.77%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.77%) MobileIron
12 3 (1.33%) Adobe
12 3 (1.33%) ConnectWise
12 3 (1.33%) Draytek
12 3 (1.33%) Meraki
12 3 (1.33%) Zscaler
13 2 (0.88%) WatchGuard