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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 431 303
Rank change year-on-year +29 -128 +263
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 256 187 714
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.51% 0.92%
As % of the System Software category 6.26% 3.94% 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 202 119 537
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,183 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £57,500 £52,501
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,250 £78,500 £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 4,089 4,748 10,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.91% 13.00% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,976 3,632 8,981
10th Percentile £27,825 £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 28 March 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 28 March 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 68 £58,000 -3.33% 71
North of England -10 64 £55,000 -4.35% 31
London +25 43 £62,000 +3.33% 29
Yorkshire -24 40 £55,000 -26.67% 12
South West -52 32 £55,000 -26.67% 32
Midlands -36 24 £54,000 +4.10% 33
East of England -34 21 £52,500 -4.55% 43
North West -12 18 £56,750 +12.38% 15
West Midlands -14 15 £55,000 +2.62% 20
East Midlands -48 8 £54,000 +13.68% 13
North East -25 6 £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 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.39%) Kinematics
2 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.56%) Simulink
2 2 (0.78%) OrCAD
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (3.13%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (10.94%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (6.25%) Azure
3 12 (4.69%) Entra ID
4 8 (3.13%) AWS
5 5 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.17%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.17%) SaaS
6 3 (1.17%) Serverless
7 1 (0.39%) AWS IoT
7 1 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.39%) GCP
7 1 (0.39%) GitHub
7 1 (0.39%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.39%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (13.67%) Firewall
2 18 (7.03%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (6.64%) Wireless
4 16 (6.25%) WAN
5 14 (5.47%) Cisco IOS
5 14 (5.47%) DNS
5 14 (5.47%) NX-OS
6 13 (5.08%) Bluetooth
6 13 (5.08%) Cisco ISE
6 13 (5.08%) LAN
7 12 (4.69%) TCP/IP
8 10 (3.91%) VLAN
8 10 (3.91%) VPN
9 9 (3.52%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (3.52%) Ethernet
9 9 (3.52%) Junos
10 8 (3.13%) Modbus
11 7 (2.73%) DHCP
12 5 (1.95%) Internet
12 5 (1.95%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.39%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.39%) MySQL
3 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (4.30%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (2.73%) Git
2 7 (2.73%) Visual Studio
3 6 (2.34%) Eclipse
4 4 (1.56%) Subversion
5 3 (1.17%) JIRA
6 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.39%) GitLab
6 1 (0.39%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.39%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.39%) Selenium
6 1 (0.39%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (28.13%) Electronics
2 49 (19.14%) Social Skills
3 22 (8.59%) Finance
3 22 (8.59%) Manufacturing
4 14 (5.47%) Aerospace
5 12 (4.69%) Automotive
6 8 (3.13%) Military
7 6 (2.34%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.56%) Avionics
9 4 (1.56%) Banking
9 4 (1.56%) Law
10 3 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.78%) Advertising
11 2 (0.78%) Aviation
11 2 (0.78%) Games
11 2 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Wearables
12 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (35.55%) Embedded Engineer
2 72 (28.13%) Software Engineer
3 50 (19.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 36 (14.06%) Firmware Engineer
5 35 (13.67%) Senior
6 30 (11.72%) Network Engineer
7 27 (10.55%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
8 19 (7.42%) Electronics Engineer
9 15 (5.86%) Design Engineer
10 13 (5.08%) FPGA Engineer
10 13 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.69%) Lead
12 11 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (3.91%) Electronics Design Engineer
13 10 (3.91%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 9 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (3.52%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
14 9 (3.52%) Systems Engineer
15 8 (3.13%) Senior Firmware Engineer
15 8 (3.13%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.73%) .NET
2 4 (1.56%) Node.js
2 4 (1.56%) React
2 4 (1.56%) WebSockets
3 2 (0.78%) .NET Framework
3 2 (0.78%) Avalonia
3 2 (0.78%) Flash
3 2 (0.78%) Middleware
3 2 (0.78%) Next.js
3 2 (0.78%) OpenCV
3 2 (0.78%) WPF
3 2 (0.78%) Yocto
4 1 (0.39%) Django
4 1 (0.39%) React Native
4 1 (0.39%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 44 (17.19%) IoT
2 33 (12.89%) Embedded Systems
3 21 (8.20%) FPGA
4 17 (6.64%) Algorithms
5 14 (5.47%) Analogue Electronics
5 14 (5.47%) PCIe
6 11 (4.30%) Driving Licence
6 11 (4.30%) Management Information System
6 11 (4.30%) VHDL
7 10 (3.91%) PKI
8 9 (3.52%) Onboarding
9 8 (3.13%) NVMe
9 8 (3.13%) Raspberry Pi
10 6 (2.34%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.34%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (1.95%) ARM Cortex
11 5 (1.95%) CMDB
11 5 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.72%) Linux
1 30 (11.72%) Windows
2 14 (5.47%) Windows Server
3 10 (3.91%) Android
3 10 (3.91%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (1.95%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.39%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.39%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.39%) SafeRTOS
5 1 (0.39%) ThreadX
5 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (31.64%) Software Engineering
2 33 (12.89%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (10.16%) Mentoring
4 24 (9.38%) Roadmaps
5 21 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (8.20%) Kalman Filter
6 20 (7.81%) Change Management
7 19 (7.42%) Validation
8 17 (6.64%) Software Testing
9 16 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (5.86%) Change Control
10 15 (5.86%) Task Automation
11 14 (5.47%) AI
11 14 (5.47%) ITSM
11 14 (5.47%) Root Cause Analysis
12 13 (5.08%) Embedded Software Development
12 13 (5.08%) Service Management
12 13 (5.08%) System Testing
12 13 (5.08%) Technology Roadmap
13 12 (4.69%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 77 (30.08%) C
2 65 (25.39%) C++
3 34 (13.28%) Python
4 31 (12.11%) Embedded C
5 19 (7.42%) C#
6 17 (6.64%) PowerShell
7 16 (6.25%) Embedded C++
8 8 (3.13%) Assembly Language
9 6 (2.34%) Java
10 5 (1.95%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.56%) Bash
11 4 (1.56%) SQL
11 4 (1.56%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.17%) PHP
12 3 (1.17%) Rust
13 2 (0.78%) Go
14 1 (0.39%) Groovy
14 1 (0.39%) JavaScript
14 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (15.63%) Degree
2 36 (14.06%) Security Cleared
3 22 (8.59%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.64%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (4.30%) CCNP
7 10 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.73%) CCNA
8 7 (2.73%) Network+ Certification
9 6 (2.34%) PhD
10 5 (1.95%) CCIE
10 5 (1.95%) DBS Check
10 5 (1.95%) JNCIA
10 5 (1.95%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.56%) HND
11 4 (1.56%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.17%) HNC
13 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.52%) ISO 9001
1 9 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.95%) GRC
2 5 (1.95%) MISRA
2 5 (1.95%) SLA
3 4 (1.56%) QA
4 3 (1.17%) GDPR
4 3 (1.17%) IEC 61508
4 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (0.78%) JTAG
5 2 (0.78%) MISRA C
5 2 (0.78%) NCSC
5 2 (0.78%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.39%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.39%) DO-254
6 1 (0.39%) HAZOP
6 1 (0.39%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 73 (28.52%) Embedded Firmware
2 22 (8.59%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.52%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.34%) Docker
4 6 (2.34%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.39%) NFS
6 1 (0.39%) QEMU
6 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (5.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (4.30%) Ansible
3 10 (3.91%) SCCM
4 9 (3.52%) vCenter Server
5 8 (3.13%) Terraform
6 5 (1.95%) Kubernetes
7 4 (1.56%) Puppet
8 3 (1.17%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.78%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 53 (20.70%) Cisco
2 24 (9.38%) Juniper
3 22 (8.59%) Fortinet
3 22 (8.59%) Microsoft
4 14 (5.47%) EMC
5 13 (5.08%) SolarWinds
6 12 (4.69%) Altera
7 11 (4.30%) VMware
8 9 (3.52%) Broadcom
9 8 (3.13%) Xilinx
10 7 (2.73%) Dell
11 5 (1.95%) CheckPoint
11 5 (1.95%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.56%) Apple
12 4 (1.56%) Atmel
12 4 (1.56%) ConnectWise
12 4 (1.56%) Draytek
12 4 (1.56%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.56%) SAP
13 3 (1.17%) WatchGuard