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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 437 324 515
Rank change year-on-year -113 +191 +111
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 275 745 391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.80% 0.50%
As % of the System Software category 4.48% 7.11% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 196 577 297
10th Percentile £36,625 £32,000 £27,650
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +20.00% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70,313 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.71% +5.00% -9.09%

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 6,143 10,473 12,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.78% 11.29% 15.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,591 8,163 8,800
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £27,764
25th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £49,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% -

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 July 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 July 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 -33 102 £60,250 +20.50% 126
Midlands -3 42 £47,500 -9.52% 40
North of England -26 40 £47,683 -9.18% 50
East of England -25 39 £60,000 +6.19% 104
London +73 30 £68,500 +14.17% 121
North West -26 28 £47,683 -13.30% 27
West Midlands +31 21 £45,074 -24.88% 27
East Midlands +5 21 £47,500 +11.76% 12
South West +27 19 £52,500 -19.23% 71
Yorkshire +28 12 £46,000 +2.22% 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 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.09%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.82%) Simulink
3 2 (0.73%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (6.91%) Azure
2 15 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (4.73%) AWS
4 7 (2.55%) Entra ID
5 5 (1.82%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (0.73%) Firebase
6 2 (0.73%) GCP
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Alexa
7 1 (0.36%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.36%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.36%) BigCommerce
7 1 (0.36%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 50 (18.18%) Software-Defined Radio
2 35 (12.73%) Wireless
3 34 (12.36%) Firewall
4 27 (9.82%) Wi-Fi
5 17 (6.18%) DHCP
6 16 (5.82%) VPN
6 16 (5.82%) WAN
7 14 (5.09%) Cisco Firepower
7 14 (5.09%) VLAN
8 13 (4.73%) DNS
8 13 (4.73%) Modbus
8 13 (4.73%) RS-485
9 12 (4.36%) LAN
9 12 (4.36%) NX-OS
10 11 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
10 11 (4.00%) Cisco ISE
11 10 (3.64%) TCP/IP
12 8 (2.91%) OSPF
12 8 (2.91%) SD-WAN
12 8 (2.91%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.36%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (6.55%) JIRA
2 14 (5.09%) Git
3 3 (1.09%) GDB
3 3 (1.09%) Subversion
4 2 (0.73%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.36%) Appium
5 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.36%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.36%) Postman
5 1 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.36%) TestRail
5 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 78 (28.36%) Electronics
2 75 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 47 (17.09%) Finance
4 28 (10.18%) Manufacturing
5 23 (8.36%) Aviation
6 10 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.64%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.55%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.18%) Marketing
9 5 (1.82%) Automotive
9 5 (1.82%) Banking
10 4 (1.45%) Military
10 4 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.45%) Retail
11 3 (1.09%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.09%) Law
11 3 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.09%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 57 (20.73%) Embedded Engineer
2 49 (17.82%) Senior
3 42 (15.27%) Software Engineer
4 37 (13.45%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 35 (12.73%) Electronics Engineer
6 29 (10.55%) Firmware Engineer
6 29 (10.55%) Network Engineer
6 29 (10.55%) Systems Engineer
7 27 (9.82%) Design Engineer
8 26 (9.45%) Lead
9 24 (8.73%) Radio Engineer
10 22 (8.00%) Radar Engineer
11 19 (6.91%) Senior Electronics Engineer
12 18 (6.55%) Electronics Design Engineer
13 16 (5.82%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
13 16 (5.82%) FPGA Engineer
14 15 (5.45%) Analyst
15 14 (5.09%) Support Analyst
16 13 (4.73%) Hardware Engineer
17 11 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.82%) REST
2 3 (1.09%) Middleware
2 3 (1.09%) OpenCL
2 3 (1.09%) OpenEmbedded
2 3 (1.09%) Yocto
3 2 (0.73%) FreeSWITCH
3 2 (0.73%) GraphQL
3 2 (0.73%) HTML
3 2 (0.73%) Laravel
3 2 (0.73%) Node.js
3 2 (0.73%) React
4 1 (0.36%) .NET
4 1 (0.36%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.36%) CSS
4 1 (0.36%) React Native
4 1 (0.36%) RESTful
4 1 (0.36%) SAML
4 1 (0.36%) Vue
4 1 (0.36%) WSH
4 1 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (18.91%) FPGA
2 50 (18.18%) Embedded Systems
3 31 (11.27%) VHDL
4 25 (9.09%) e-Learning
5 22 (8.00%) MicroBlaze
5 22 (8.00%) RISC-V
6 20 (7.27%) Analogue Electronics
7 17 (6.18%) Data Centre
8 16 (5.82%) Verilog
9 14 (5.09%) Management Information System
10 12 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (3.64%) IoT
12 9 (3.27%) CAN bus
13 8 (2.91%) Optoelectronics
14 6 (2.18%) Device Driver
15 5 (1.82%) Algorithms
15 5 (1.82%) Driving Licence
15 5 (1.82%) PKI
16 4 (1.45%) Mobile App
16 4 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (17.45%) Linux
2 36 (13.09%) Windows
3 35 (12.73%) Embedded Linux
4 15 (5.45%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.82%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.09%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.73%) Android
7 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Rocky
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.36%) Unix
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (20.36%) Signal Processing
3 53 (19.27%) Software Engineering
4 52 (18.91%) Digital Signal Processing
5 50 (18.18%) Innovative Thinking
6 40 (14.55%) Agile
7 32 (11.64%) Physics
8 27 (9.82%) Systems Engineering
9 26 (9.45%) Change Management
10 24 (8.73%) Safety Engineering
10 24 (8.73%) Schematic Capture
10 24 (8.73%) Validation
11 23 (8.36%) Mentoring
12 21 (7.64%) Prototyping
13 17 (6.18%) Customer Service
13 17 (6.18%) FPGA Design
13 17 (6.18%) Verification and Validation
14 15 (5.45%) Asset Management
14 15 (5.45%) Incident Management
15 14 (5.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 77 (28.00%) C
2 55 (20.00%) C++
3 30 (10.91%) MATLAB
4 14 (5.09%) Embedded C
4 14 (5.09%) Python
5 10 (3.64%) C#
6 6 (2.18%) Ada
7 4 (1.45%) Embedded C++
7 4 (1.45%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.45%) SQL
8 3 (1.09%) Assembly Language
8 3 (1.09%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.73%) Bash
9 2 (0.73%) PHP
10 1 (0.36%) Java
10 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 70 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 61 (22.18%) Degree
3 60 (21.82%) SC Cleared
4 22 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (8.00%) CEH
5 13 (4.73%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.82%) CCNA
7 5 (1.82%) CCNP
7 5 (1.82%) HND
8 4 (1.45%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.09%) HNC
9 3 (1.09%) PhD
10 2 (0.73%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.36%) DO-254
2 7 (2.55%) SLA
3 5 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 5 (1.82%) QA
4 3 (1.09%) JTAG
5 2 (0.73%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.73%) HAZOP
5 2 (0.73%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.36%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.36%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.36%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.36%) MISRA
6 1 (0.36%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.36%) NIST
System Software
1 101 (36.73%) Embedded Firmware
2 12 (4.36%) BitLocker
3 10 (3.64%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.82%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (5.45%) SCCM
2 5 (1.82%) vCenter Server
3 4 (1.45%) Functional Safety
4 3 (1.09%) Ansible
4 3 (1.09%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.73%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.73%) WSUS
6 1 (0.36%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 29 (10.55%) Cisco
3 19 (6.91%) Fortinet
4 15 (5.45%) EMC
4 15 (5.45%) HP
4 15 (5.45%) SolarWinds
5 14 (5.09%) Apple
5 14 (5.09%) CheckPoint
6 12 (4.36%) MobileIron
7 11 (4.00%) Juniper
7 11 (4.00%) Meraki
8 10 (3.64%) VMware
9 9 (3.27%) Infoblox
10 8 (2.91%) McAfee
10 8 (2.91%) Remedy
11 5 (1.82%) Broadcom
11 5 (1.82%) Dell
11 5 (1.82%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.82%) SAP
11 5 (1.82%) Xilinx