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 6 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 305 584
Rank change year-on-year -134 +279 -33
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 253 660 443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.92% 0.45%
As % of the System Software category 4.40% 6.44% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 108 488 266
10th Percentile £43,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £32,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.10% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,938
90th Percentile £79,000 £75,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -4.55%

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 5,753 10,251 15,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.66% 14.31% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,631 8,546 10,471
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.67% -9.09% -3.51%
75th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -1.79%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 East -80 72 £55,000 +8.91% 104
South West +57 54 £72,500 +38.10% 46
Midlands -28 44 £55,000 - 36
East of England -30 36 £55,000 - 62
West Midlands -8 26 £56,250 -10.00% 21
North of England -35 25 £56,750 +8.10% 43
London +31 20 £57,500 +9.52% 35
East Midlands +14 18 £47,500 -5.00% 14
North West -19 9 £51,500 -1.90% 21
North East +30 8 £61,000 +10.91% 5
Yorkshire +18 8 £75,000 +76.47% 19
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 5 (1.98%) Confluence
2 3 (1.19%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.79%) OpenStack
Applications
1 32 (12.65%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.98%) OrCAD
3 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.79%) Simulink
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (9.88%) Azure
2 10 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (2.77%) AWS
4 6 (2.37%) GitHub
5 5 (1.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (1.58%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.58%) SaaS
7 3 (1.19%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.19%) IaaS
7 3 (1.19%) PaaS
8 2 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.40%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (13.44%) Firewall
2 26 (10.28%) Bluetooth
2 26 (10.28%) Wireless
3 25 (9.88%) Wi-Fi
4 18 (7.11%) VPN
5 15 (5.93%) WAN
6 14 (5.53%) Network Security
7 13 (5.14%) VLAN
8 12 (4.74%) DNS
8 12 (4.74%) RS-232
8 12 (4.74%) SD-WAN
9 10 (3.95%) Ethernet
10 9 (3.56%) DHCP
10 9 (3.56%) RS-485
10 9 (3.56%) ZigBee
11 8 (3.16%) LAN
11 8 (3.16%) TCP/IP
12 7 (2.77%) GSM
12 7 (2.77%) Internet
12 7 (2.77%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.58%) Power BI
2 2 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (4.74%) JIRA
2 10 (3.95%) Git
3 5 (1.98%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.79%) LabVIEW
4 2 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.79%) Subversion
5 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.40%) GitLab
5 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 118 (46.64%) Electronics
2 64 (25.30%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (8.30%) Manufacturing
4 19 (7.51%) Automotive
5 13 (5.14%) Military
5 13 (5.14%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.16%) Finance
8 6 (2.37%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.58%) Legal
10 4 (1.58%) Tech for Good
11 3 (1.19%) Police
12 2 (0.79%) Aviation
12 2 (0.79%) Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Law
13 1 (0.40%) Marketing
13 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (34.39%) Senior
2 70 (27.67%) Embedded Engineer
3 56 (22.13%) Software Engineer
4 42 (16.60%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 34 (13.44%) Electronics Engineer
6 30 (11.86%) Senior Electronics Engineer
7 29 (11.46%) Design Engineer
8 27 (10.67%) Electronics Design Engineer
8 27 (10.67%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 25 (9.88%) Senior Design Engineer
9 25 (9.88%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
10 24 (9.49%) Network Engineer
11 23 (9.09%) Firmware Engineer
11 23 (9.09%) Hardware Engineer
12 19 (7.51%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
13 18 (7.11%) Senior Software Engineer
14 17 (6.72%) Lead
15 15 (5.93%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
16 14 (5.53%) Senior Hardware Engineer
16 14 (5.53%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.32%) .NET
2 13 (5.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 7 (2.77%) SAML
4 3 (1.19%) Middleware
4 3 (1.19%) REST
5 2 (0.79%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.79%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.79%) OpenCL
5 2 (0.79%) Yocto
6 1 (0.40%) Bazel
6 1 (0.40%) Flash
6 1 (0.40%) HTML
6 1 (0.40%) Laravel
6 1 (0.40%) RESTful
6 1 (0.40%) Sphinx
6 1 (0.40%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 44 (17.39%) Embedded Systems
2 40 (15.81%) FPGA
3 38 (15.02%) VHDL
4 25 (9.88%) Optoelectronics
5 22 (8.70%) Analogue Electronics
6 18 (7.11%) Data Centre
7 14 (5.53%) Life Science
8 11 (4.35%) Algorithms
9 10 (3.95%) MicroBlaze
10 9 (3.56%) GNSS
10 9 (3.56%) Satnav
11 7 (2.77%) CAN bus
11 7 (2.77%) Device Driver
12 6 (2.37%) ARM Cortex
12 6 (2.37%) IoT
13 5 (1.98%) Cloud Native
13 5 (1.98%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.98%) Verilog
14 4 (1.58%) Solar Power
15 3 (1.19%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 71 (28.06%) Linux
2 52 (20.55%) Windows
3 20 (7.91%) Embedded Linux
4 19 (7.51%) Windows Server
5 14 (5.53%) FreeRTOS
6 6 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.98%) Android
7 5 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.58%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.58%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.19%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.79%) Unix
11 1 (0.40%) CentOS
11 1 (0.40%) Rocky
11 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.40%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (30.04%) Software Engineering
2 44 (17.39%) Schematic Capture
3 41 (16.21%) Prototyping
4 36 (14.23%) Signal Processing
5 35 (13.83%) Requirements Analysis
6 32 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (10.67%) Agile
8 25 (9.88%) Stress Analysis
9 23 (9.09%) Computer Science
10 20 (7.91%) CAD
11 19 (7.51%) DevOps
12 18 (7.11%) Mentoring
12 18 (7.11%) Scrum
13 17 (6.72%) ITIL
14 15 (5.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 14 (5.53%) Architectural Design
15 14 (5.53%) Change Management
15 14 (5.53%) Open Source
15 14 (5.53%) Test Automation
15 14 (5.53%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 123 (48.62%) C
2 105 (41.50%) C++
3 48 (18.97%) Python
4 38 (15.02%) C#
5 34 (13.44%) Java
6 26 (10.28%) Embedded C
7 18 (7.11%) MATLAB
8 12 (4.74%) PowerShell
9 11 (4.35%) Embedded C++
9 11 (4.35%) VB
10 9 (3.56%) Perl
10 9 (3.56%) Tcl
11 8 (3.16%) SQL
12 5 (1.98%) Ada
13 4 (1.58%) Bash
14 2 (0.79%) R
14 2 (0.79%) Rust
15 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
15 1 (0.40%) PHP
15 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (29.64%) Degree
2 32 (12.65%) Security Cleared
3 20 (7.91%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (7.11%) CCNA
5 17 (6.72%) CCNP
6 13 (5.14%) DV Cleared
6 13 (5.14%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.37%) MCSA
7 6 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.19%) MCP
9 2 (0.79%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.79%) HND
9 2 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.40%) HNC
10 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.40%) PMP
10 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.40%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.16%) AUTOSAR
1 8 (3.16%) QA
2 7 (2.77%) Automotive SPICE
3 5 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.98%) MISRA
3 5 (1.98%) MISRA C
4 3 (1.19%) ISO 13485
4 3 (1.19%) SLA
5 2 (0.79%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.79%) JTAG
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 91 (35.97%) Embedded Firmware
2 26 (10.28%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.56%) Hyper-V
4 8 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (2.77%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.58%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.19%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.19%) vSphere
9 2 (0.79%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.40%) Docker
10 1 (0.40%) NFS
10 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (3.95%) Ansible
1 10 (3.95%) WSUS
2 5 (1.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 5 (1.98%) Dell DRAC
2 5 (1.98%) SCCM
2 5 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (1.98%) Terraform
3 4 (1.58%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (0.79%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.79%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.79%) vRealize
4 2 (0.79%) VxRail
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 51 (20.16%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.88%) EMC
3 21 (8.30%) Cisco
4 15 (5.93%) VMware
5 14 (5.53%) Dell
5 14 (5.53%) Palo Alto
6 13 (5.14%) Veeam
7 11 (4.35%) HP
7 11 (4.35%) Xilinx
8 9 (3.56%) Altera
8 9 (3.56%) Green Hills
8 9 (3.56%) Meraki
9 6 (2.37%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.98%) Cadence
10 5 (1.98%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.58%) Aruba
11 4 (1.58%) Red Hat
12 3 (1.19%) F5
12 3 (1.19%) MobileIron
12 3 (1.19%) Rapid7