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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 432 310
Rank change year-on-year +34 -122 +249
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 307 211 760
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.54% 0.91%
As % of the System Software category 7.39% 4.14% 7.09%
Number of salaries quoted 247 146 558
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,501
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +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 4,157 5,093 10,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.12% 13.09% 12.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,974 3,566 8,806
10th Percentile £28,325 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +21 89 £60,000 -4.00% 84
North of England -2 66 £55,000 -4.35% 33
South West -40 47 £60,000 -14.29% 29
Yorkshire -17 39 £55,000 -12.00% 2
London -24 36 £62,000 -0.80% 27
Midlands -38 36 £54,000 +8.00% 29
East of England -21 30 £61,500 +18.27% 44
North West -8 23 £46,500 -7.00% 27
West Midlands -20 23 £60,000 +14.56% 10
East Midlands -46 12 £54,000 +13.68% 19
North East -29 4 £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 2 (0.65%) Confluence
2 1 (0.33%) Kinematics
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Simulink
2 2 (0.65%) OrCAD
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (3.91%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (7.17%) Azure
2 17 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (3.26%) Entra ID
4 8 (2.61%) AWS
5 3 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (0.98%) Amazon S3
5 3 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (0.98%) SaaS
5 3 (0.98%) Serverless
6 1 (0.33%) AWS IoT
6 1 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.33%) GCP
6 1 (0.33%) GitHub
6 1 (0.33%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 37 (12.05%) Firewall
2 20 (6.51%) Bluetooth
3 19 (6.19%) Wireless
4 15 (4.89%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (4.23%) Ethernet
5 13 (4.23%) WAN
6 12 (3.91%) Cisco IOS
6 12 (3.91%) Modbus
6 12 (3.91%) TCP/IP
6 12 (3.91%) VPN
7 11 (3.58%) Cisco ISE
7 11 (3.58%) VLAN
8 9 (2.93%) DNS
8 9 (2.93%) NX-OS
9 7 (2.28%) Cisco Firepower
9 7 (2.28%) Junos
9 7 (2.28%) LAN
10 6 (1.95%) RFID
11 5 (1.63%) Profibus
11 5 (1.63%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.65%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.33%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.33%) MySQL
3 1 (0.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (4.23%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (3.58%) Git
3 5 (1.63%) Eclipse
3 5 (1.63%) LabVIEW
3 5 (1.63%) Subversion
4 3 (0.98%) JIRA
4 3 (0.98%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.65%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.33%) GitLab
6 1 (0.33%) GoogleTest
6 1 (0.33%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.33%) Polyspace
6 1 (0.33%) Selenium
6 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.33%) VectorCAST
6 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.33%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 88 (28.66%) Electronics
2 40 (13.03%) Social Skills
3 28 (9.12%) Manufacturing
4 18 (5.86%) Automotive
5 15 (4.89%) Aerospace
6 13 (4.23%) Finance
7 11 (3.58%) Military
8 6 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.95%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.63%) Law
10 4 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.30%) Avionics
10 4 (1.30%) Marketing
10 4 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.30%) Retail
11 3 (0.98%) Games
12 2 (0.65%) Aviation
12 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 120 (39.09%) Embedded Engineer
2 113 (36.81%) Software Engineer
3 81 (26.38%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 59 (19.22%) Senior
5 46 (14.98%) Firmware Engineer
6 29 (9.45%) Network Engineer
6 29 (9.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 25 (8.14%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 25 (8.14%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 24 (7.82%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 23 (7.49%) Electronics Engineer
10 22 (7.17%) Design Engineer
11 20 (6.51%) FPGA Engineer
12 14 (4.56%) Lead
13 13 (4.23%) Electronics Design Engineer
13 13 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (3.91%) Senior Firmware Engineer
15 10 (3.26%) Hardware Engineer
16 9 (2.93%) Systems Engineer
17 8 (2.61%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.61%) .NET
2 6 (1.95%) WebSockets
3 4 (1.30%) Node.js
3 4 (1.30%) React
3 4 (1.30%) WPF
4 3 (0.98%) .NET Framework
4 3 (0.98%) Avalonia
4 3 (0.98%) OpenCV
5 2 (0.65%) Middleware
5 2 (0.65%) Next.js
5 2 (0.65%) Yocto
6 1 (0.33%) Django
6 1 (0.33%) Flash
6 1 (0.33%) pytest
6 1 (0.33%) React Native
6 1 (0.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 48 (15.64%) IoT
2 42 (13.68%) Embedded Systems
3 28 (9.12%) FPGA
4 27 (8.79%) Algorithms
5 20 (6.51%) Analogue Electronics
5 20 (6.51%) PCIe
6 19 (6.19%) VHDL
7 14 (4.56%) Data Centre
7 14 (4.56%) Management Information System
8 13 (4.23%) Driving Licence
9 12 (3.91%) NVMe
10 9 (2.93%) Onboarding
11 8 (2.61%) Enterprise Storage
11 8 (2.61%) iSeries
11 8 (2.61%) PKI
11 8 (2.61%) Raspberry Pi
11 8 (2.61%) Replication
12 7 (2.28%) ARM Cortex
13 6 (1.95%) Video Conferencing
14 5 (1.63%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.82%) FreeRTOS
2 23 (7.49%) Linux
3 18 (5.86%) Windows
4 10 (3.26%) Android
5 8 (2.61%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.95%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (0.65%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.33%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.33%) SafeRTOS
8 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (40.07%) Software Engineering
2 34 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (9.12%) Roadmaps
4 26 (8.47%) Validation
5 25 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (8.14%) Software Testing
6 22 (7.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (6.51%) Embedded Software Development
7 20 (6.51%) Kalman Filter
8 19 (6.19%) AI
8 19 (6.19%) Mentoring
9 18 (5.86%) Signal Processing
10 17 (5.54%) Computer Science
10 17 (5.54%) Disaster Recovery
10 17 (5.54%) System Testing
10 17 (5.54%) Technology Roadmap
11 15 (4.89%) Change Management
11 15 (4.89%) Collaborative Culture
11 15 (4.89%) FPGA Design
11 15 (4.89%) Schematic Capture
Programming Languages
1 102 (33.22%) C
2 78 (25.41%) C++
3 53 (17.26%) Python
4 39 (12.70%) Embedded C
5 19 (6.19%) C#
6 15 (4.89%) PowerShell
7 14 (4.56%) Embedded C++
8 12 (3.91%) Assembly Language
9 9 (2.93%) MATLAB
10 5 (1.63%) Bash
10 5 (1.63%) Java
10 5 (1.63%) Rust
11 4 (1.30%) SQL
11 4 (1.30%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.98%) PHP
13 2 (0.65%) Go
14 1 (0.33%) Groovy
14 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
14 1 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (14.66%) Degree
2 39 (12.70%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.49%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.54%) DV Cleared
5 13 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (3.91%) CCNP
7 10 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.61%) CCNA
9 7 (2.28%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (1.95%) PhD
11 5 (1.63%) CCIE
11 5 (1.63%) JNCIA
11 5 (1.63%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.30%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.98%) HND
14 2 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.65%) HNC
15 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
15 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.93%) ISO 9001
1 9 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.28%) IEC 61508
3 5 (1.63%) GRC
3 5 (1.63%) MISRA
3 5 (1.63%) MISRA C
3 5 (1.63%) SLA
4 4 (1.30%) QA
5 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (0.65%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.65%) JTAG
6 2 (0.65%) NCSC
6 2 (0.65%) NIST
7 1 (0.33%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.33%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.33%) DO-254
7 1 (0.33%) HAZOP
7 1 (0.33%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 97 (31.60%) Embedded Firmware
2 12 (3.91%) Hyper-V
3 11 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.28%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.95%) Docker
6 3 (0.98%) QEMU
7 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (3.58%) Ansible
3 8 (2.61%) SCCM
4 7 (2.28%) vCenter Server
5 6 (1.95%) Terraform
6 5 (1.63%) Kubernetes
7 4 (1.30%) Puppet
8 3 (0.98%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.65%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.65%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 43 (14.01%) Cisco
2 24 (7.82%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.49%) Fortinet
4 21 (6.84%) EMC
5 20 (6.51%) Juniper
6 16 (5.21%) Altera
7 13 (4.23%) VMware
7 13 (4.23%) Xilinx
8 10 (3.26%) SolarWinds
9 9 (2.93%) HP
10 8 (2.61%) Commvault
10 8 (2.61%) IBM
10 8 (2.61%) Veeam
11 7 (2.28%) Broadcom
11 7 (2.28%) Dell
12 4 (1.30%) Atmel
12 4 (1.30%) Draytek
12 4 (1.30%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.30%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.30%) SAP