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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 417 305
Rank change year-on-year +5 -112 +254
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 298 207 760
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.55% 0.91%
As % of the System Software category 7.14% 4.15% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 241 144 562
10th Percentile £40,000 £34,975 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,923 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,192 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.09% +5.13% +16.02%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £64,688
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £74,875
UK median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 4,173 4,987 10,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.24% 13.18% 12.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,007 3,618 8,859
10th Percentile £28,482 £28,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,625 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £87,100
UK median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% +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 28 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 28 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 +4 85 £60,000 -4.00% 75
North of England -5 68 £55,000 -7.17% 37
South West -45 45 £60,000 -14.29% 34
Yorkshire -27 40 £55,000 -12.00% 4
London +3 37 £62,000 -6.42% 23
Midlands -41 34 £54,000 +6.67% 24
East of England -35 26 £61,500 +14.95% 47
North West -11 23 £46,500 -4.79% 30
West Midlands -20 22 £56,250 +7.40% 9
East Midlands -50 11 £54,000 +13.68% 15
North East -40 5 £56,500 -7.38% 3
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 2 (0.67%) Confluence
2 1 (0.34%) Kinematics
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Simulink
2 2 (0.67%) OrCAD
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (4.03%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (7.05%) Azure
2 18 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (3.36%) Entra ID
4 9 (3.02%) AWS
5 3 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (1.01%) Amazon S3
5 3 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (1.01%) SaaS
5 3 (1.01%) Serverless
6 2 (0.67%) AWS IoT
7 1 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.34%) GCP
7 1 (0.34%) GitHub
7 1 (0.34%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.34%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 36 (12.08%) Firewall
2 20 (6.71%) Bluetooth
3 18 (6.04%) Wireless
4 15 (5.03%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (4.36%) Cisco IOS
5 13 (4.36%) Ethernet
6 12 (4.03%) Cisco ISE
6 12 (4.03%) Modbus
6 12 (4.03%) WAN
7 11 (3.69%) TCP/IP
8 10 (3.36%) NX-OS
8 10 (3.36%) VPN
9 9 (3.02%) DNS
9 9 (3.02%) VLAN
10 8 (2.68%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (2.68%) Junos
11 7 (2.35%) LAN
12 6 (2.01%) RFID
13 5 (1.68%) DHCP
13 5 (1.68%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.34%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.34%) MySQL
3 1 (0.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (4.36%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (3.69%) Git
3 5 (1.68%) Eclipse
3 5 (1.68%) Subversion
4 4 (1.34%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.01%) JIRA
5 3 (1.01%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.67%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.67%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.34%) GitLab
7 1 (0.34%) GoogleTest
7 1 (0.34%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.34%) Polyspace
7 1 (0.34%) Selenium
7 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.34%) VectorCAST
7 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.34%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 85 (28.52%) Electronics
2 42 (14.09%) Social Skills
3 26 (8.72%) Manufacturing
4 17 (5.70%) Automotive
5 15 (5.03%) Finance
6 14 (4.70%) Aerospace
7 11 (3.69%) Military
8 6 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.01%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.68%) Law
10 4 (1.34%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.34%) Avionics
10 4 (1.34%) Marketing
10 4 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.34%) Retail
11 3 (1.01%) Games
12 2 (0.67%) Advertising
12 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 120 (40.27%) Embedded Engineer
2 108 (36.24%) Software Engineer
3 79 (26.51%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 55 (18.46%) Senior
5 44 (14.77%) Firmware Engineer
6 28 (9.40%) Network Engineer
7 27 (9.06%) Senior Software Engineer
8 25 (8.39%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
8 25 (8.39%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 24 (8.05%) Electronics Engineer
9 24 (8.05%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 23 (7.72%) Design Engineer
11 18 (6.04%) FPGA Engineer
12 14 (4.70%) Electronics Design Engineer
12 14 (4.70%) Lead
13 13 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (4.03%) Senior Firmware Engineer
15 9 (3.02%) Hardware Engineer
15 9 (3.02%) Systems Engineer
16 8 (2.68%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.68%) .NET
2 6 (2.01%) WebSockets
3 4 (1.34%) Node.js
3 4 (1.34%) React
4 3 (1.01%) .NET Framework
4 3 (1.01%) Avalonia
4 3 (1.01%) OpenCV
4 3 (1.01%) WPF
5 2 (0.67%) Middleware
5 2 (0.67%) Next.js
5 2 (0.67%) Yocto
6 1 (0.34%) Django
6 1 (0.34%) Flash
6 1 (0.34%) pytest
6 1 (0.34%) React Native
6 1 (0.34%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.11%) IoT
2 41 (13.76%) Embedded Systems
3 25 (8.39%) Algorithms
3 25 (8.39%) FPGA
4 19 (6.38%) Analogue Electronics
4 19 (6.38%) PCIe
5 17 (5.70%) VHDL
6 14 (4.70%) Management Information System
7 13 (4.36%) Data Centre
8 12 (4.03%) Driving Licence
8 12 (4.03%) NVMe
9 9 (3.02%) Onboarding
9 9 (3.02%) PKI
10 8 (2.68%) Raspberry Pi
11 7 (2.35%) ARM Cortex
11 7 (2.35%) Enterprise Storage
11 7 (2.35%) iSeries
11 7 (2.35%) Replication
12 6 (2.01%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (1.68%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.05%) FreeRTOS
2 23 (7.72%) Linux
3 19 (6.38%) Windows
4 10 (3.36%) Android
5 9 (3.02%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.01%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.67%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.34%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.34%) SafeRTOS
8 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (39.60%) Software Engineering
2 34 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (9.73%) Roadmaps
4 23 (7.72%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (7.72%) Validation
5 22 (7.38%) Software Testing
6 21 (7.05%) Mentoring
7 20 (6.71%) Embedded Software Development
7 20 (6.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 19 (6.38%) Kalman Filter
9 17 (5.70%) AI
9 17 (5.70%) System Testing
9 17 (5.70%) Technology Roadmap
10 16 (5.37%) Signal Processing
11 15 (5.03%) Change Control
11 15 (5.03%) Change Management
11 15 (5.03%) Computer Science
11 15 (5.03%) Disaster Recovery
11 15 (5.03%) Schematic Capture
12 14 (4.70%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 99 (33.22%) C
2 77 (25.84%) C++
3 51 (17.11%) Python
4 39 (13.09%) Embedded C
5 18 (6.04%) C#
6 15 (5.03%) Embedded C++
6 15 (5.03%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.03%) Assembly Language
8 8 (2.68%) MATLAB
9 5 (1.68%) Bash
9 5 (1.68%) Java
9 5 (1.68%) Rust
10 4 (1.34%) SQL
10 4 (1.34%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.01%) PHP
12 2 (0.67%) Go
13 1 (0.34%) Groovy
13 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (13.76%) Degree
2 37 (12.42%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.38%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.70%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (3.69%) CCNP
7 10 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.35%) CCNA
8 7 (2.35%) Network+ Certification
9 6 (2.01%) PhD
10 5 (1.68%) CCIE
10 5 (1.68%) JNCIA
10 5 (1.68%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.34%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.01%) HND
13 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.67%) HNC
14 1 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.02%) ISO 9001
1 9 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.35%) IEC 61508
3 5 (1.68%) GRC
3 5 (1.68%) MISRA
3 5 (1.68%) MISRA C
3 5 (1.68%) SLA
4 4 (1.34%) QA
5 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (0.67%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.67%) JTAG
6 2 (0.67%) NCSC
6 2 (0.67%) NIST
7 1 (0.34%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.34%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.34%) DO-254
7 1 (0.34%) HAZOP
7 1 (0.34%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 96 (32.21%) Embedded Firmware
2 12 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.69%) Hyper-V
4 10 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.68%) VMware NSX
6 6 (2.01%) Docker
7 3 (1.01%) QEMU
8 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (4.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (3.69%) Ansible
3 8 (2.68%) SCCM
3 8 (2.68%) vCenter Server
4 6 (2.01%) Terraform
5 5 (1.68%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.34%) Puppet
7 2 (0.67%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.67%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.67%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 44 (14.77%) Cisco
2 23 (7.72%) Microsoft
3 21 (7.05%) Fortinet
3 21 (7.05%) Juniper
4 20 (6.71%) EMC
5 16 (5.37%) Altera
6 13 (4.36%) VMware
7 12 (4.03%) Xilinx
8 11 (3.69%) SolarWinds
9 8 (2.68%) Broadcom
9 8 (2.68%) HP
10 7 (2.35%) Commvault
10 7 (2.35%) IBM
10 7 (2.35%) Veeam
11 6 (2.01%) Dell
12 4 (1.34%) Atmel
12 4 (1.34%) ConnectWise
12 4 (1.34%) Draytek
12 4 (1.34%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.34%) SAP