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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 392 335
Rank change year-on-year +29 -57 +158
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 413 278 638
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.64% 0.78%
As % of the System Software category 8.14% 4.90% 7.06%
Number of salaries quoted 330 191 506
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,000 £40,003
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -3.67% +14.74%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +6.48% +8.00%

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 5,073 5,671 9,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.71% 13.09% 11.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,812 3,571 7,030
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,258 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -6 145 £65,000 +12.55% 69
North of England +30 82 £54,875 +18.65% 33
East of England +12 57 £76,250 +27.08% 50
Midlands -7 57 £54,000 +13.68% 30
South West -31 57 £60,000 +14.29% 20
Yorkshire -13 38 £57,500 +25.00% 5
North West +15 30 £55,375 +16.13% 20
West Midlands -6 29 £65,000 +46.07% 9
East Midlands -19 27 £54,000 +13.68% 20
North East - 14 £51,000 - 9
London -52 12 £70,000 +16.67% 45
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 (0.73%) Confluence
2 1 (0.24%) Kinematics
Applications
1 12 (2.91%) Simulink
2 5 (1.21%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.48%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (2.66%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (7.02%) Azure
2 16 (3.87%) AWS
3 13 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (1.21%) SaaS
5 3 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (0.73%) Amazon S3
5 3 (0.73%) AWS IoT
5 3 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (0.73%) GCP
5 3 (0.73%) Serverless
6 2 (0.48%) Entra ID
6 2 (0.48%) GitHub
6 2 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.24%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.24%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.24%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.23%) Wireless
2 29 (7.02%) Bluetooth
3 25 (6.05%) Firewall
4 20 (4.84%) Modbus
5 16 (3.87%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (3.39%) WAN
7 13 (3.15%) RS-232
7 13 (3.15%) TCP/IP
7 13 (3.15%) VLAN
8 12 (2.91%) RS-485
9 11 (2.66%) Ethernet
9 11 (2.66%) VPN
9 11 (2.66%) ZigBee
10 10 (2.42%) Profibus
11 9 (2.18%) LTE
12 7 (1.69%) SAN
12 7 (1.69%) Software-Defined Radio
13 6 (1.45%) Network Security
13 6 (1.45%) RFID
13 6 (1.45%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (5.08%) Git
2 14 (3.39%) Rational DOORS
3 9 (2.18%) JIRA
4 6 (1.45%) LabVIEW
5 5 (1.21%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.97%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.97%) GitLab
6 4 (0.97%) Subversion
7 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.48%) GDB
8 2 (0.48%) MLflow
8 2 (0.48%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.48%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.24%) GoogleTest
9 1 (0.24%) Polyspace
9 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.24%) VectorCAST
9 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 132 (31.96%) Electronics
2 55 (13.32%) Social Skills
3 46 (11.14%) Manufacturing
4 32 (7.75%) Automotive
5 21 (5.08%) Aerospace
6 10 (2.42%) Finance
6 10 (2.42%) Military
6 10 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (1.45%) Retail
9 5 (1.21%) Marketing
9 5 (1.21%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.97%) Law
11 3 (0.73%) Games
11 3 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.73%) Wearables
12 2 (0.48%) Advertising
12 2 (0.48%) Aviation
12 2 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (36.08%) Software Engineer
2 136 (32.93%) Embedded Engineer
3 101 (24.46%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 81 (19.61%) Senior
5 50 (12.11%) Firmware Engineer
6 44 (10.65%) Senior Software Engineer
7 42 (10.17%) Lead
8 39 (9.44%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 34 (8.23%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 27 (6.54%) Electronics Engineer
11 25 (6.05%) FPGA Engineer
12 24 (5.81%) Systems Engineer
13 23 (5.57%) Design Engineer
14 22 (5.33%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
15 21 (5.08%) Technical Leader
16 19 (4.60%) Senior Firmware Engineer
17 16 (3.87%) Test Engineer
18 14 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 13 (3.15%) Hardware Engineer
20 12 (2.91%) QA Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.66%) .NET
2 5 (1.21%) WPF
3 4 (0.97%) Node.js
3 4 (0.97%) React
3 4 (0.97%) WebSockets
3 4 (0.97%) Yocto
4 3 (0.73%) .NET Framework
4 3 (0.73%) Avalonia
4 3 (0.73%) OpenCV
5 2 (0.48%) LangChain
5 2 (0.48%) React Native
5 2 (0.48%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.24%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.24%) Flash
6 1 (0.24%) GStreamer
6 1 (0.24%) Middleware
6 1 (0.24%) pytest
6 1 (0.24%) Spring
6 1 (0.24%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.24%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 89 (21.55%) Embedded Systems
2 47 (11.38%) FPGA
3 44 (10.65%) Algorithms
4 40 (9.69%) IoT
5 26 (6.30%) Analogue Electronics
5 26 (6.30%) VHDL
6 20 (4.84%) PCIe
7 17 (4.12%) Driving Licence
8 16 (3.87%) ARM Cortex
9 15 (3.63%) Enterprise Storage
10 14 (3.39%) Data Centre
10 14 (3.39%) Raspberry Pi
11 12 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (2.91%) Verilog
12 11 (2.66%) iSeries
12 11 (2.66%) NVMe
12 11 (2.66%) Replication
13 9 (2.18%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
15 5 (1.21%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.72%) Linux
2 35 (8.47%) FreeRTOS
3 21 (5.08%) Windows
4 16 (3.87%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (0.97%) Android
6 3 (0.73%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.48%) ThreadX
7 2 (0.48%) Unix
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.24%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.24%) SafeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (42.13%) Software Engineering
2 53 (12.83%) Validation
3 43 (10.41%) Signal Processing
4 42 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (9.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (7.02%) Collaborative Culture
6 29 (7.02%) Mentoring
6 29 (7.02%) Test Automation
7 26 (6.30%) Digital Signal Processing
7 26 (6.30%) Software Testing
8 24 (5.81%) Roadmaps
8 24 (5.81%) Technical Leadership
9 23 (5.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 22 (5.33%) AI
10 22 (5.33%) Computer Science
11 21 (5.08%) DevOps
11 21 (5.08%) Embedded Software Development
11 21 (5.08%) Root Cause Analysis
12 19 (4.60%) Schematic Capture
12 19 (4.60%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 142 (34.38%) C
2 97 (23.49%) C++
3 58 (14.04%) Python
4 50 (12.11%) Embedded C
5 22 (5.33%) C#
6 18 (4.36%) MATLAB
7 14 (3.39%) Assembly Language
8 12 (2.91%) Embedded C++
9 10 (2.42%) Rust
10 6 (1.45%) Java
11 4 (0.97%) SQL
12 3 (0.73%) PHP
12 3 (0.73%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.48%) Bash
13 2 (0.48%) Go
13 2 (0.48%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 65 (15.74%) Degree
2 52 (12.59%) Security Cleared
3 37 (8.96%) SC Cleared
4 25 (6.05%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (1.45%) HND
7 4 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.97%) CCNA
7 4 (0.97%) CCNP
7 4 (0.97%) HNC
8 3 (0.73%) PhD
9 2 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.24%) CCA
10 1 (0.24%) ISEB
10 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.12%) QA
2 8 (1.94%) MISRA
3 7 (1.69%) IEC 61508
4 6 (1.45%) SLA
5 5 (1.21%) ISO 9001
5 5 (1.21%) MISRA C
6 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.73%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 3 (0.73%) JTAG
8 2 (0.48%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.48%) NCSC
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.24%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.24%) DO-254
9 1 (0.24%) GDPR
9 1 (0.24%) HAZOP
9 1 (0.24%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 143 (34.62%) Embedded Firmware
2 18 (4.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.63%) Active Directory
4 14 (3.39%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.69%) Docker
6 5 (1.21%) QEMU
7 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (1.45%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.21%) FortiGate
3 4 (0.97%) Ansible
3 4 (0.97%) Puppet
3 4 (0.97%) Terraform
4 3 (0.73%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.48%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.24%) Grafana
6 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.24%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 29 (7.02%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.57%) EMC
3 19 (4.60%) Cisco
4 18 (4.36%) VMware
5 13 (3.15%) Altera
5 13 (3.15%) Xilinx
6 12 (2.91%) HP
7 11 (2.66%) Commvault
7 11 (2.66%) IBM
7 11 (2.66%) Veeam
8 9 (2.18%) Fortinet
9 8 (1.94%) Dell
10 6 (1.45%) Freshdesk
11 4 (0.97%) Google
11 4 (0.97%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.97%) SAP
12 2 (0.48%) Adobe
12 2 (0.48%) Atmel
12 2 (0.48%) Motorola
12 2 (0.48%) Palo Alto