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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 422 304
Rank change year-on-year +59 -118 +228
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 398 240 815
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.58% 0.88%
As % of the System Software category 8.07% 4.36% 7.76%
Number of salaries quoted 319 163 586
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,850 £32,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,688 £52,501
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +2.26% +15.39%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,250 £73,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.64% +16.19% +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 4,933 5,499 10,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.75% 13.35% 11.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,660 3,470 8,261
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,313 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.06% -10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £86,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -10.00%

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 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 1 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 +18 148 £65,000 - 77
North of England +17 76 £54,875 +18.01% 36
South West -16 58 £60,000 +14.29% 41
East of England 0 54 £80,000 +33.33% 44
Midlands -34 45 £54,000 +13.68% 30
Yorkshire -4 41 £55,000 +19.57% 6
West Midlands -23 28 £65,000 +44.21% 14
North West +14 26 £52,375 +7.23% 25
East Midlands -29 16 £54,000 +13.68% 16
London -48 14 £70,000 -12.50% 38
North East - 9 £51,000 - 5
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 (0.75%) Confluence
2 1 (0.25%) Kinematics
Applications
1 14 (3.52%) Simulink
2 5 (1.26%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.50%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (3.02%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (6.28%) Azure
2 13 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (3.02%) AWS
4 5 (1.26%) SaaS
5 3 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (0.75%) Amazon S3
5 3 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (0.75%) Serverless
6 1 (0.25%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.25%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.25%) AWS IoT
6 1 (0.25%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.25%) GCP
6 1 (0.25%) GitHub
6 1 (0.25%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.29%) Wireless
2 28 (7.04%) Bluetooth
3 25 (6.28%) Firewall
4 20 (5.03%) Modbus
5 13 (3.27%) Ethernet
5 13 (3.27%) RS-232
5 13 (3.27%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.02%) TCP/IP
7 11 (2.76%) RS-485
7 11 (2.76%) VPN
7 11 (2.76%) WAN
8 10 (2.51%) Profibus
8 10 (2.51%) VLAN
9 9 (2.26%) ZigBee
10 8 (2.01%) LTE
11 7 (1.76%) SAN
11 7 (1.76%) Software-Defined Radio
12 6 (1.51%) RFID
13 5 (1.26%) Cisco ISE
14 4 (1.01%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (4.77%) Git
2 15 (3.77%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (1.51%) Eclipse
3 6 (1.51%) JIRA
3 6 (1.51%) LabVIEW
3 6 (1.51%) Subversion
4 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.50%) MLflow
5 2 (0.50%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (0.50%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.25%) GitLab
6 1 (0.25%) GoogleTest
6 1 (0.25%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.25%) Polyspace
6 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.25%) VectorCAST
6 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 124 (31.16%) Electronics
2 48 (12.06%) Social Skills
3 44 (11.06%) Manufacturing
4 33 (8.29%) Automotive
5 21 (5.28%) Aerospace
6 10 (2.51%) Military
6 10 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.51%) Finance
8 5 (1.26%) Marketing
8 5 (1.26%) Retail
8 5 (1.26%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.01%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (0.75%) Games
10 3 (0.75%) Law
10 3 (0.75%) Wearables
11 2 (0.50%) Advertising
11 2 (0.50%) Aviation
11 2 (0.50%) Avionics
11 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 146 (36.68%) Software Engineer
2 141 (35.43%) Embedded Engineer
3 98 (24.62%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 71 (17.84%) Senior
5 51 (12.81%) Firmware Engineer
6 44 (11.06%) Senior Software Engineer
7 37 (9.30%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 34 (8.54%) Lead
8 34 (8.54%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 30 (7.54%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
10 28 (7.04%) FPGA Engineer
11 24 (6.03%) Electronics Engineer
12 22 (5.53%) Systems Engineer
13 19 (4.77%) Design Engineer
14 17 (4.27%) Technical Leader
15 15 (3.77%) Test Engineer
16 14 (3.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 14 (3.52%) Senior Firmware Engineer
17 13 (3.27%) Network Engineer
18 12 (3.02%) QA Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.02%) .NET
2 5 (1.26%) WPF
3 4 (1.01%) Node.js
3 4 (1.01%) React
3 4 (1.01%) WebSockets
4 3 (0.75%) .NET Framework
4 3 (0.75%) Avalonia
4 3 (0.75%) OpenCV
5 2 (0.50%) LangChain
5 2 (0.50%) React Native
5 2 (0.50%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.50%) Yocto
6 1 (0.25%) Flash
6 1 (0.25%) GStreamer
6 1 (0.25%) Micronaut
6 1 (0.25%) Middleware
6 1 (0.25%) pytest
6 1 (0.25%) Spring
6 1 (0.25%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.25%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 82 (20.60%) Embedded Systems
2 50 (12.56%) FPGA
3 47 (11.81%) IoT
4 45 (11.31%) Algorithms
5 27 (6.78%) VHDL
6 23 (5.78%) PCIe
7 20 (5.03%) Analogue Electronics
8 16 (4.02%) Data Centre
8 16 (4.02%) Driving Licence
9 15 (3.77%) Enterprise Storage
10 13 (3.27%) ARM Cortex
10 13 (3.27%) Raspberry Pi
11 12 (3.02%) NVMe
11 12 (3.02%) Verilog
12 11 (2.76%) iSeries
12 11 (2.76%) Replication
13 9 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (2.01%) Management Information System
15 6 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
16 5 (1.26%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.29%) Linux
2 30 (7.54%) FreeRTOS
3 18 (4.52%) Windows
4 13 (3.27%) Embedded Linux
5 5 (1.26%) Android
6 2 (0.50%) ThreadX
6 2 (0.50%) Unix
6 2 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.25%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.25%) SafeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (41.21%) Software Engineering
2 43 (10.80%) Validation
3 42 (10.55%) Signal Processing
4 39 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
5 36 (9.05%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (7.04%) Collaborative Culture
6 28 (7.04%) Software Testing
7 25 (6.28%) Roadmaps
7 25 (6.28%) Test Automation
8 24 (6.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 24 (6.03%) Mentoring
9 23 (5.78%) AI
9 23 (5.78%) Digital Signal Processing
9 23 (5.78%) Technical Leadership
10 22 (5.53%) Embedded Software Development
11 21 (5.28%) Computer Science
12 19 (4.77%) System Testing
13 18 (4.52%) DevOps
13 18 (4.52%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (4.52%) Schematic Capture
Programming Languages
1 135 (33.92%) C
2 97 (24.37%) C++
3 59 (14.82%) Python
4 45 (11.31%) Embedded C
5 26 (6.53%) C#
6 20 (5.03%) MATLAB
7 15 (3.77%) Assembly Language
8 12 (3.02%) Embedded C++
9 8 (2.01%) Rust
10 7 (1.76%) Java
11 4 (1.01%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.75%) PHP
12 3 (0.75%) SQL
13 2 (0.50%) Bash
13 2 (0.50%) Go
13 2 (0.50%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.25%) Groovy
14 1 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 58 (14.57%) Degree
2 51 (12.81%) Security Cleared
3 34 (8.54%) SC Cleared
4 24 (6.03%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.26%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.26%) PhD
6 4 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.01%) HND
7 3 (0.75%) CCNA
7 3 (0.75%) CCNP
8 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.50%) HNC
8 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.50%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.25%) CCA
9 1 (0.25%) ISEB
9 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.77%) QA
2 8 (2.01%) ISO 9001
2 8 (2.01%) MISRA
3 7 (1.76%) IEC 61508
4 6 (1.51%) SLA
5 5 (1.26%) MISRA C
6 4 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 2 (0.50%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.50%) JTAG
8 2 (0.50%) NCSC
9 1 (0.25%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.25%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.25%) DO-254
9 1 (0.25%) HAZOP
9 1 (0.25%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.25%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 141 (35.43%) Embedded Firmware
2 17 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.77%) Active Directory
4 13 (3.27%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.51%) Docker
6 3 (0.75%) QEMU
7 2 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (1.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.01%) Puppet
3 3 (0.75%) Dell DRAC
3 3 (0.75%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.75%) Terraform
4 2 (0.50%) Ansible
4 2 (0.50%) Functional Safety
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (6.53%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.53%) EMC
3 18 (4.52%) Cisco
4 17 (4.27%) VMware
5 16 (4.02%) Altera
6 14 (3.52%) Xilinx
7 12 (3.02%) HP
8 11 (2.76%) Commvault
8 11 (2.76%) IBM
8 11 (2.76%) Veeam
9 10 (2.51%) Fortinet
10 8 (2.01%) Dell
11 6 (1.51%) Freshdesk
12 4 (1.01%) Atmel
12 4 (1.01%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.01%) SAP
13 3 (0.75%) Google
13 3 (0.75%) Meraki
13 3 (0.75%) SolarWinds
14 2 (0.50%) Broadcom