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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 373 328
Rank change year-on-year +38 -45 +89
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 537 293 538
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 0.68% 0.78%
As % of the System Software category 9.88% 5.43% 7.54%
Number of salaries quoted 418 202 355
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,725 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,688 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,375 £81,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%

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 5,433 5,398 7,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.47% 12.44% 10.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,032 3,312 4,587
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £53,818
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -11.74% -2.15%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £88,975 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +2 160 £65,000 +18.18% 129
Midlands +7 104 £55,000 +29.41% 64
North of England +17 102 £57,500 +23.66% 50
East of England +17 89 £65,000 +10.64% 144
South West -25 63 £60,000 +14.29% 62
West Midlands -7 53 £65,000 +66.67% 29
East Midlands -7 48 £54,000 +13.68% 35
North West +20 44 £57,500 +23.66% 36
North East - 30 £55,000 - 8
Yorkshire -32 28 £50,000 +8.70% 8
London -91 14 £67,500 +12.50% 102
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 (0.56%) Confluence
1 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (3.54%) Simulink
2 7 (1.30%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.37%) OrCAD
3 2 (0.37%) Weka
4 1 (0.19%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) MicroStation
4 1 (0.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (1.86%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (9.12%) Azure
2 25 (4.66%) AWS
3 17 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (1.12%) Entra ID
4 6 (1.12%) SaaS
5 5 (0.93%) GCP
6 4 (0.74%) Azure Stack
6 4 (0.74%) Nutanix
7 3 (0.56%) AWS IoT
7 3 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.56%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (0.56%) Cohesity
7 3 (0.56%) GitHub
7 3 (0.56%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.37%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.19%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.19%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.45%) Wireless
2 32 (5.96%) Firewall
3 24 (4.47%) Bluetooth
4 23 (4.28%) VPN
5 22 (4.10%) Modbus
5 22 (4.10%) WAN
6 19 (3.54%) TCP/IP
7 18 (3.35%) VLAN
7 18 (3.35%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (2.98%) SAN
9 15 (2.79%) RS-232
10 14 (2.61%) LTE
10 14 (2.61%) RS-485
11 12 (2.23%) Ethernet
11 12 (2.23%) LAN
12 11 (2.05%) SD-WAN
12 11 (2.05%) ZigBee
13 10 (1.86%) DNS
13 10 (1.86%) Profibus
14 9 (1.68%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.56%) NoSQL
1 3 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.37%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 21 (3.91%) Git
2 16 (2.98%) Rational DOORS
3 13 (2.42%) JIRA
4 11 (2.05%) LabVIEW
5 8 (1.49%) Eclipse
6 6 (1.12%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.93%) GitLab
8 3 (0.56%) Postman
8 3 (0.56%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.37%) GDB
9 2 (0.37%) MLflow
9 2 (0.37%) Rational Rhapsody
9 2 (0.37%) Subversion
10 1 (0.19%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.19%) Polyspace
10 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.19%) VectorCAST
10 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 183 (34.08%) Electronics
2 92 (17.13%) Social Skills
3 66 (12.29%) Manufacturing
4 41 (7.64%) Aerospace
5 39 (7.26%) Automotive
6 36 (6.70%) Finance
7 26 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
8 22 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.86%) Military
11 10 (1.86%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.49%) Law
13 7 (1.30%) Retail
14 5 (0.93%) Legal
14 5 (0.93%) Marketing
15 3 (0.56%) Games
15 3 (0.56%) Wearables
16 2 (0.37%) Advertising
16 2 (0.37%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 169 (31.47%) Software Engineer
2 148 (27.56%) Embedded Engineer
3 117 (21.79%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 107 (19.93%) Senior
5 67 (12.48%) Lead
6 55 (10.24%) Senior Software Engineer
7 52 (9.68%) Electronics Engineer
8 51 (9.50%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 49 (9.12%) Firmware Engineer
10 44 (8.19%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 39 (7.26%) Design Engineer
12 32 (5.96%) FPGA Engineer
13 28 (5.21%) Systems Engineer
14 22 (4.10%) Electronics Design Engineer
14 22 (4.10%) Technical Leader
15 21 (3.91%) Test Engineer
16 19 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 18 (3.35%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
18 17 (3.17%) Senior Firmware Engineer
19 16 (2.98%) Senior Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.86%) Terraform
2 9 (1.68%) .NET
3 5 (0.93%) Node.js
3 5 (0.93%) React
3 5 (0.93%) WPF
4 4 (0.74%) REST
4 4 (0.74%) WebSockets
4 4 (0.74%) Yocto
5 3 (0.56%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.56%) Avalonia
5 3 (0.56%) OpenCV
6 2 (0.37%) LangChain
6 2 (0.37%) React Native
6 2 (0.37%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.19%) JWT
7 1 (0.19%) Micronaut
7 1 (0.19%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.19%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.19%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 98 (18.25%) Embedded Systems
2 54 (10.06%) FPGA
3 43 (8.01%) Analogue Electronics
4 42 (7.82%) Algorithms
5 36 (6.70%) IoT
6 27 (5.03%) VHDL
7 25 (4.66%) Data Centre
8 24 (4.47%) Driving Licence
9 20 (3.72%) Enterprise Storage
10 17 (3.17%) Raspberry Pi
11 16 (2.98%) ARM Cortex
11 16 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (2.79%) PCIe
13 13 (2.42%) Verilog
14 12 (2.23%) Replication
15 11 (2.05%) iSeries
15 11 (2.05%) Management Information System
16 10 (1.86%) NVMe
17 9 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
17 9 (1.68%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 43 (8.01%) Linux
2 35 (6.52%) Windows
3 34 (6.33%) FreeRTOS
4 17 (3.17%) Embedded Linux
5 12 (2.23%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.37%) OpenWrt
7 2 (0.37%) ThreadX
7 2 (0.37%) Unix
7 2 (0.37%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.19%) Android
8 1 (0.19%) Debian
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.19%) SafeRTOS
8 1 (0.19%) SUSE
8 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (37.62%) Software Engineering
2 83 (15.46%) Validation
3 65 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (9.50%) Mentoring
6 45 (8.38%) Signal Processing
7 42 (7.82%) Test Automation
8 39 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
8 39 (7.26%) Software Testing
9 34 (6.33%) Root Cause Analysis
9 34 (6.33%) Technical Leadership
10 32 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 29 (5.40%) Digital Signal Processing
12 28 (5.21%) Disaster Recovery
13 26 (4.84%) Collaborative Culture
13 26 (4.84%) Project Delivery
13 26 (4.84%) Schematic Capture
14 25 (4.66%) Agile
14 25 (4.66%) Computer Science
14 25 (4.66%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 166 (30.91%) C
2 110 (20.48%) C++
3 69 (12.85%) Python
4 58 (10.80%) Embedded C
5 27 (5.03%) MATLAB
6 17 (3.17%) C#
7 14 (2.61%) Rust
8 13 (2.42%) Assembly Language
8 13 (2.42%) Java
9 11 (2.05%) Embedded C++
10 7 (1.30%) PowerShell
11 5 (0.93%) SQL
12 4 (0.74%) Go
13 3 (0.56%) Bash
13 3 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.56%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.37%) Ada
15 1 (0.19%) Perl
15 1 (0.19%) PHP
15 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 102 (18.99%) Degree
2 73 (13.59%) Security Cleared
3 47 (8.75%) SC Cleared
4 38 (7.08%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.68%) HND
9 8 (1.49%) CCNP
10 7 (1.30%) CCNA
10 7 (1.30%) HNC
11 6 (1.12%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.56%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
14 1 (0.19%) CCA
14 1 (0.19%) ISEB
14 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.17%) QA
2 16 (2.98%) Accessibility
2 16 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.86%) MISRA
4 7 (1.30%) IEC 61508
5 6 (1.12%) SLA
6 5 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.93%) GDPR
6 5 (0.93%) ISO 9001
6 5 (0.93%) MISRA C
7 3 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 3 (0.56%) JTAG
8 2 (0.37%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.37%) NCSC
9 1 (0.19%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.19%) HAZOP
9 1 (0.19%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 159 (29.61%) Embedded Firmware
2 28 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.91%) Hyper-V
4 20 (3.72%) Active Directory
5 7 (1.30%) QEMU
5 7 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.93%) Docker
6 5 (0.93%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.93%) vSphere
7 1 (0.19%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.19%) NFS
7 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (1.86%) Ansible
2 6 (1.12%) FortiGate
3 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.93%) VxRail
4 4 (0.74%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.74%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.37%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (0.37%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.37%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.19%) Grafana
6 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (7.26%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.89%) EMC
3 31 (5.77%) VMware
4 25 (4.66%) Cisco
5 16 (2.98%) Fortinet
5 16 (2.98%) Veeam
6 15 (2.79%) Xilinx
7 13 (2.42%) HP
8 12 (2.23%) Dell
9 11 (2.05%) Commvault
9 11 (2.05%) IBM
10 10 (1.86%) Altera
11 7 (1.30%) Meraki
12 6 (1.12%) Freshdesk
13 5 (0.93%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.74%) F5
14 4 (0.74%) Infoblox
14 4 (0.74%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.74%) SolarWinds
14 4 (0.74%) WatchGuard