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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 425 302
Rank change year-on-year +17 -123 +258
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 260 188 715
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.51% 0.91%
As % of the System Software category 6.36% 3.98% 6.68%
Number of salaries quoted 207 126 538
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,563 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% +5.00%

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 4,091 4,726 10,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.81% 12.93% 13.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,977 3,638 8,999
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 1 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 1 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 -2 70 £58,000 -3.33% 71
North of England -9 64 £55,000 -4.35% 31
London +9 43 £62,000 -0.80% 29
Yorkshire -16 40 £55,000 -26.67% 12
South West -49 33 £57,500 -23.33% 32
Midlands -35 25 £54,000 +2.86% 33
East of England -31 21 £52,500 -4.55% 43
North West -11 19 £57,500 +14.43% 15
West Midlands -16 16 £60,000 +11.95% 20
East Midlands -46 8 £54,000 +13.68% 13
North East -27 5 £56,500 -7.38% 4
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 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.38%) Kinematics
2 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.54%) Simulink
2 2 (0.77%) OrCAD
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.08%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (10.77%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (6.54%) Azure
3 12 (4.62%) Entra ID
4 8 (3.08%) AWS
5 5 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.15%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.15%) SaaS
6 3 (1.15%) Serverless
7 1 (0.38%) AWS IoT
7 1 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.38%) GCP
7 1 (0.38%) GitHub
7 1 (0.38%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.38%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 36 (13.85%) Firewall
2 18 (6.92%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (6.54%) Wireless
4 16 (6.15%) WAN
5 14 (5.38%) Cisco IOS
5 14 (5.38%) DNS
5 14 (5.38%) NX-OS
6 13 (5.00%) Bluetooth
6 13 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
6 13 (5.00%) LAN
7 11 (4.23%) Ethernet
7 11 (4.23%) TCP/IP
8 10 (3.85%) VLAN
8 10 (3.85%) VPN
9 9 (3.46%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (3.46%) Junos
10 8 (3.08%) Modbus
11 7 (2.69%) DHCP
12 5 (1.92%) Internet
12 5 (1.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.38%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.38%) MySQL
3 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (4.23%) Rational DOORS
2 8 (3.08%) Git
3 6 (2.31%) Eclipse
3 6 (2.31%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.54%) Subversion
5 3 (1.15%) JIRA
6 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.38%) GitLab
6 1 (0.38%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.38%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.38%) Selenium
6 1 (0.38%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (28.08%) Electronics
2 47 (18.08%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.46%) Finance
3 22 (8.46%) Manufacturing
4 14 (5.38%) Aerospace
5 12 (4.62%) Automotive
6 8 (3.08%) Military
7 5 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.92%) Law
8 4 (1.54%) Avionics
8 4 (1.54%) Banking
9 3 (1.15%) Games
9 3 (1.15%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.77%) Advertising
10 2 (0.77%) Aviation
10 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.77%) Wearables
11 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (35.77%) Embedded Engineer
2 73 (28.08%) Software Engineer
3 51 (19.62%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 37 (14.23%) Firmware Engineer
4 37 (14.23%) Senior
5 30 (11.54%) Network Engineer
6 27 (10.38%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 20 (7.69%) Electronics Engineer
8 16 (6.15%) Design Engineer
9 13 (5.00%) FPGA Engineer
9 13 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (5.00%) Lead
10 12 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (4.23%) Electronics Design Engineer
11 11 (4.23%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 10 (3.85%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 10 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
13 9 (3.46%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.46%) Senior Firmware Engineer
14 8 (3.08%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.08%) .NET
2 5 (1.92%) WebSockets
3 4 (1.54%) Node.js
3 4 (1.54%) React
4 3 (1.15%) .NET Framework
4 3 (1.15%) Avalonia
4 3 (1.15%) OpenCV
4 3 (1.15%) WPF
5 2 (0.77%) Flash
5 2 (0.77%) Middleware
5 2 (0.77%) Next.js
5 2 (0.77%) Yocto
6 1 (0.38%) Django
6 1 (0.38%) React Native
6 1 (0.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.92%) IoT
2 33 (12.69%) Embedded Systems
3 21 (8.08%) FPGA
4 17 (6.54%) Algorithms
5 15 (5.77%) Analogue Electronics
6 14 (5.38%) PCIe
7 11 (4.23%) Driving Licence
7 11 (4.23%) Management Information System
7 11 (4.23%) VHDL
8 10 (3.85%) PKI
9 9 (3.46%) Onboarding
10 8 (3.08%) NVMe
10 8 (3.08%) Raspberry Pi
11 7 (2.69%) Data Centre
12 6 (2.31%) ARM Cortex
12 6 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (2.31%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (1.92%) CMDB
13 5 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.92%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.77%) Linux
1 28 (10.77%) Windows
2 14 (5.38%) Windows Server
3 11 (4.23%) FreeRTOS
4 10 (3.85%) Android
5 4 (1.54%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.38%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.38%) SafeRTOS
6 1 (0.38%) ThreadX
6 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (31.54%) Software Engineering
2 33 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (9.23%) Mentoring
3 24 (9.23%) Roadmaps
4 22 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (8.08%) Kalman Filter
5 21 (8.08%) Validation
6 20 (7.69%) Change Management
7 17 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (6.54%) Software Testing
8 15 (5.77%) Change Control
8 15 (5.77%) Task Automation
9 14 (5.38%) AI
9 14 (5.38%) Embedded Software Development
9 14 (5.38%) ITSM
9 14 (5.38%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (5.00%) Schematic Capture
10 13 (5.00%) Service Management
10 13 (5.00%) System Testing
10 13 (5.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 77 (29.62%) C
2 64 (24.62%) C++
3 36 (13.85%) Python
4 32 (12.31%) Embedded C
5 19 (7.31%) C#
6 17 (6.54%) PowerShell
7 15 (5.77%) Embedded C++
8 8 (3.08%) Assembly Language
9 6 (2.31%) Java
9 6 (2.31%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.54%) Bash
10 4 (1.54%) SQL
10 4 (1.54%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.15%) PHP
11 3 (1.15%) Rust
12 2 (0.77%) Go
13 1 (0.38%) Groovy
13 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (15.00%) Degree
2 36 (13.85%) Security Cleared
3 22 (8.46%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.54%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.62%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (4.23%) CCNP
7 10 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.69%) CCNA
8 7 (2.69%) Network+ Certification
9 6 (2.31%) PhD
10 5 (1.92%) CCIE
10 5 (1.92%) DBS Check
10 5 (1.92%) JNCIA
10 5 (1.92%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.54%) HND
11 4 (1.54%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.15%) HNC
13 2 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.46%) ISO 9001
1 9 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.92%) GRC
2 5 (1.92%) MISRA
2 5 (1.92%) SLA
3 4 (1.54%) IEC 61508
3 4 (1.54%) QA
4 3 (1.15%) GDPR
4 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 3 (1.15%) MISRA C
5 2 (0.77%) JTAG
5 2 (0.77%) NCSC
5 2 (0.77%) NIST
6 1 (0.38%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.38%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.38%) DO-254
6 1 (0.38%) HAZOP
6 1 (0.38%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.38%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (27.69%) Embedded Firmware
2 22 (8.46%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.46%) VMware NSX
4 7 (2.69%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.31%) Docker
5 6 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.38%) NFS
6 1 (0.38%) QEMU
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (5.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (4.23%) Ansible
3 10 (3.85%) SCCM
4 9 (3.46%) vCenter Server
5 8 (3.08%) Terraform
6 5 (1.92%) Kubernetes
7 4 (1.54%) Puppet
8 3 (1.15%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.77%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.38%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 53 (20.38%) Cisco
2 24 (9.23%) Juniper
3 23 (8.85%) Microsoft
4 22 (8.46%) Fortinet
5 15 (5.77%) EMC
6 13 (5.00%) SolarWinds
7 12 (4.62%) Altera
7 12 (4.62%) VMware
8 9 (3.46%) Broadcom
9 8 (3.08%) Xilinx
10 7 (2.69%) Dell
11 5 (1.92%) CheckPoint
11 5 (1.92%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.54%) Apple
12 4 (1.54%) Atmel
12 4 (1.54%) ConnectWise
12 4 (1.54%) Draytek
12 4 (1.54%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.54%) SAP
13 3 (1.15%) WatchGuard