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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 402 303
Rank change year-on-year -20 -99 +263
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 277 198 741
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.53% 0.90%
As % of the System Software category 6.63% 4.00% 6.82%
Number of salaries quoted 222 136 552
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,125 £32,050
25th Percentile £46,938 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,875 £82,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% +10.53%

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 4,179 4,944 10,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.49% 13.34% 13.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3,024 3,611 9,052
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,938 £37,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,860 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £51,125 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.05% +10.00% -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 16 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 16 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 0 77 £60,000 -4.00% 65
North of England -10 66 £55,000 -4.35% 39
Yorkshire -16 41 £55,000 -26.67% 10
London +8 40 £62,000 +1.22% 23
South West -61 39 £60,000 -14.29% 26
Midlands -47 28 £54,000 +2.86% 35
East of England -38 24 £55,000 +2.80% 38
North West -18 19 £56,000 +12.00% 28
West Midlands -14 18 £60,000 +12.15% 12
East Midlands -57 9 £54,000 +13.68% 23
North East -31 6 £56,500 -7.38% 1
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 1 (0.36%) Confluence
1 1 (0.36%) Kinematics
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.44%) Simulink
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.72%) OrCAD
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (3.61%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (7.58%) Azure
1 21 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (3.97%) Entra ID
3 9 (3.25%) AWS
4 4 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (1.08%) Amazon S3
5 3 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (1.08%) SaaS
5 3 (1.08%) Serverless
6 2 (0.72%) AWS IoT
7 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.36%) GCP
7 1 (0.36%) GitHub
7 1 (0.36%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.36%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 37 (13.36%) Firewall
2 17 (6.14%) Bluetooth
2 17 (6.14%) Wi-Fi
2 17 (6.14%) Wireless
3 14 (5.05%) Cisco IOS
4 13 (4.69%) Cisco ISE
5 12 (4.33%) Ethernet
6 11 (3.97%) DNS
6 11 (3.97%) Modbus
6 11 (3.97%) NX-OS
6 11 (3.97%) WAN
7 9 (3.25%) Cisco Firepower
7 9 (3.25%) Junos
7 9 (3.25%) TCP/IP
8 8 (2.89%) LAN
8 8 (2.89%) VLAN
8 8 (2.89%) VPN
9 6 (2.17%) DHCP
9 6 (2.17%) RFID
10 5 (1.81%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.72%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.36%) MySQL
3 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (4.33%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (3.61%) Git
3 6 (2.17%) Eclipse
4 5 (1.81%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.44%) Subversion
6 3 (1.08%) JIRA
7 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.72%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.72%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.36%) GitLab
8 1 (0.36%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.36%) IDA Disassembler
8 1 (0.36%) Polyspace
8 1 (0.36%) Selenium
8 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.36%) VectorCAST
8 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.36%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 79 (28.52%) Electronics
2 44 (15.88%) Social Skills
3 23 (8.30%) Manufacturing
4 17 (6.14%) Finance
5 14 (5.05%) Automotive
6 13 (4.69%) Aerospace
7 11 (3.97%) Military
8 6 (2.17%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.81%) Law
10 4 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.44%) Avionics
10 4 (1.44%) Marketing
10 4 (1.44%) Retail
11 3 (1.08%) Games
11 3 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.72%) Aviation
12 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.72%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 108 (38.99%) Embedded Engineer
2 91 (32.85%) Software Engineer
3 67 (24.19%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 47 (16.97%) Senior
5 39 (14.08%) Firmware Engineer
6 29 (10.47%) Network Engineer
7 25 (9.03%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
8 22 (7.94%) Electronics Engineer
9 21 (7.58%) Senior Software Engineer
10 20 (7.22%) Design Engineer
10 20 (7.22%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 19 (6.86%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 15 (5.42%) FPGA Engineer
13 14 (5.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (4.69%) Electronics Design Engineer
14 13 (4.69%) Lead
15 11 (3.97%) Senior Firmware Engineer
16 10 (3.61%) Systems Engineer
17 9 (3.25%) Cloud Engineer
17 9 (3.25%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.89%) .NET
2 5 (1.81%) WebSockets
3 4 (1.44%) Node.js
3 4 (1.44%) React
4 3 (1.08%) .NET Framework
4 3 (1.08%) Avalonia
4 3 (1.08%) OpenCV
4 3 (1.08%) WPF
5 2 (0.72%) Middleware
5 2 (0.72%) Next.js
5 2 (0.72%) Yocto
6 1 (0.36%) Django
6 1 (0.36%) pytest
6 1 (0.36%) React Native
6 1 (0.36%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.97%) IoT
2 36 (13.00%) Embedded Systems
3 22 (7.94%) FPGA
4 19 (6.86%) Algorithms
5 17 (6.14%) Analogue Electronics
6 16 (5.78%) PCIe
7 14 (5.05%) Management Information System
8 13 (4.69%) VHDL
9 12 (4.33%) Data Centre
10 11 (3.97%) Driving Licence
11 10 (3.61%) NVMe
11 10 (3.61%) PKI
12 9 (3.25%) Onboarding
13 8 (2.89%) Enterprise Storage
13 8 (2.89%) Raspberry Pi
13 8 (2.89%) Replication
14 7 (2.53%) ARM Cortex
14 7 (2.53%) iSeries
15 6 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.66%) Linux
2 22 (7.94%) Windows
3 20 (7.22%) FreeRTOS
4 11 (3.97%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.61%) Android
6 5 (1.81%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.72%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.36%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.36%) SafeRTOS
8 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (36.10%) Software Engineering
2 34 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (9.75%) Roadmaps
4 23 (8.30%) Mentoring
4 23 (8.30%) Validation
5 22 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (7.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (6.86%) Software Testing
8 18 (6.50%) Kalman Filter
9 17 (6.14%) Change Management
10 16 (5.78%) Embedded Software Development
11 15 (5.42%) AI
11 15 (5.42%) Change Control
11 15 (5.42%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (5.42%) System Testing
11 15 (5.42%) Technology Roadmap
12 14 (5.05%) Computer Science
12 14 (5.05%) ITSM
12 14 (5.05%) Root Cause Analysis
12 14 (5.05%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 87 (31.41%) C
2 70 (25.27%) C++
3 44 (15.88%) Python
4 34 (12.27%) Embedded C
5 18 (6.50%) C#
6 16 (5.78%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.05%) Embedded C++
8 10 (3.61%) Assembly Language
9 7 (2.53%) MATLAB
10 6 (2.17%) Java
11 5 (1.81%) Bash
12 4 (1.44%) Rust
12 4 (1.44%) SQL
12 4 (1.44%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.08%) PHP
14 2 (0.72%) Go
15 1 (0.36%) Groovy
15 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
15 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (14.44%) Degree
2 37 (13.36%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.30%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.14%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.33%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (3.97%) CCNP
7 10 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.53%) CCNA
8 7 (2.53%) Network+ Certification
9 6 (2.17%) PhD
10 5 (1.81%) CCIE
10 5 (1.81%) JNCIA
10 5 (1.81%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.44%) HND
11 4 (1.44%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.08%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.08%) HNC
13 1 (0.36%) ISEB
13 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.25%) ISO 9001
1 9 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.53%) IEC 61508
3 6 (2.17%) MISRA
4 5 (1.81%) GRC
4 5 (1.81%) MISRA C
4 5 (1.81%) SLA
5 4 (1.44%) QA
6 3 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 2 (0.72%) ISO 26262
7 2 (0.72%) JTAG
7 2 (0.72%) NCSC
7 2 (0.72%) NIST
8 1 (0.36%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.36%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.36%) DO-254
8 1 (0.36%) GDPR
8 1 (0.36%) HAZOP
8 1 (0.36%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 84 (30.32%) Embedded Firmware
2 15 (5.42%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.97%) Hyper-V
4 10 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (3.25%) VMware NSX
6 6 (2.17%) Docker
7 2 (0.72%) QEMU
8 1 (0.36%) NFS
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (5.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (3.97%) Ansible
3 9 (3.25%) SCCM
3 9 (3.25%) vCenter Server
4 7 (2.53%) Terraform
5 5 (1.81%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.44%) Puppet
7 2 (0.72%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.72%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 47 (16.97%) Cisco
2 24 (8.66%) Microsoft
3 23 (8.30%) Juniper
4 20 (7.22%) EMC
4 20 (7.22%) Fortinet
5 14 (5.05%) Altera
5 14 (5.05%) VMware
6 13 (4.69%) SolarWinds
7 10 (3.61%) Xilinx
8 9 (3.25%) Broadcom
9 8 (2.89%) HP
10 7 (2.53%) Commvault
10 7 (2.53%) Dell
10 7 (2.53%) IBM
10 7 (2.53%) Veeam
11 4 (1.44%) Atmel
11 4 (1.44%) ConnectWise
11 4 (1.44%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.44%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.44%) SAP