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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 381 346
Rank change year-on-year +26 -35 +93
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 484 294 532
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 0.67% 0.73%
As % of the System Software category 9.14% 5.20% 7.00%
Number of salaries quoted 380 201 406
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £34,125
25th Percentile £49,313 £43,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,125 £80,000 £73,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.11% +0.91% +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 5,297 5,650 7,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.63% 12.90% 10.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,910 3,558 5,572
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -11.50%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +8 155 £65,000 +18.18% 92
North of England +25 90 £55,000 +18.92% 48
East of England +23 83 £65,000 +4.00% 99
Midlands -4 82 £54,000 +13.68% 33
South West -17 59 £60,000 +14.29% 47
East Midlands -9 43 £54,000 +13.68% 16
West Midlands -12 37 £65,000 +55.69% 17
North West +26 36 £56,000 +17.44% 21
Yorkshire -2 33 £54,500 +18.48% 14
North East - 21 £55,000 - 15
London -85 12 £67,500 +12.50% 56
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 (0.62%) Confluence
1 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (2.48%) Simulink
2 7 (1.45%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.41%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) MicroStation
4 1 (0.21%) Revit
4 1 (0.21%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (2.07%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 3 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (8.88%) Azure
2 24 (4.96%) AWS
3 17 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (1.45%) Entra ID
4 7 (1.45%) SaaS
5 4 (0.83%) GCP
6 3 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (0.62%) Amazon S3
6 3 (0.62%) AWS IoT
6 3 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (0.62%) Serverless
7 2 (0.41%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (0.41%) Azure Stack
7 2 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.41%) GitHub
7 2 (0.41%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.41%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.21%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.21%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 38 (7.85%) Wireless
2 28 (5.79%) Firewall
3 27 (5.58%) Bluetooth
4 21 (4.34%) Modbus
5 20 (4.13%) WAN
6 19 (3.93%) TCP/IP
7 18 (3.72%) VPN
8 17 (3.51%) VLAN
9 16 (3.31%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (2.89%) RS-232
11 13 (2.69%) RS-485
12 12 (2.48%) SAN
13 11 (2.27%) LTE
13 11 (2.27%) ZigBee
14 10 (2.07%) Ethernet
14 10 (2.07%) LAN
14 10 (2.07%) Profibus
15 9 (1.86%) Network Security
15 9 (1.86%) SD-WAN
16 7 (1.45%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (0.62%) NoSQL
1 3 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (3.93%) Git
2 16 (3.31%) Rational DOORS
3 11 (2.27%) JIRA
4 9 (1.86%) LabVIEW
5 5 (1.03%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.83%) GitLab
7 3 (0.62%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.41%) GDB
8 2 (0.41%) MLflow
8 2 (0.41%) Postman
8 2 (0.41%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.41%) Subversion
8 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.41%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.21%) GoogleTest
9 1 (0.21%) Polyspace
9 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.21%) VectorCAST
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 156 (32.23%) Electronics
2 77 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 56 (11.57%) Manufacturing
4 40 (8.26%) Aerospace
5 38 (7.85%) Automotive
6 30 (6.20%) Finance
7 18 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (2.07%) Military
11 9 (1.86%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.24%) Retail
13 5 (1.03%) Marketing
14 4 (0.83%) Law
15 3 (0.62%) Games
15 3 (0.62%) Wearables
16 2 (0.41%) Aviation
16 2 (0.41%) Avionics
16 2 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 163 (33.68%) Software Engineer
2 143 (29.55%) Embedded Engineer
3 112 (23.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 100 (20.66%) Senior
5 56 (11.57%) Lead
6 50 (10.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 48 (9.92%) Firmware Engineer
8 45 (9.30%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 39 (8.06%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 32 (6.61%) Electronics Engineer
11 29 (5.99%) Design Engineer
12 28 (5.79%) Systems Engineer
13 25 (5.17%) FPGA Engineer
14 22 (4.55%) Technical Leader
15 19 (3.93%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
15 19 (3.93%) Test Engineer
16 18 (3.72%) Senior Firmware Engineer
17 17 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 15 (3.10%) Electronics Design Engineer
19 14 (2.89%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.86%) .NET
2 5 (1.03%) Node.js
2 5 (1.03%) React
2 5 (1.03%) WPF
3 4 (0.83%) WebSockets
4 3 (0.62%) .NET Framework
4 3 (0.62%) Avalonia
4 3 (0.62%) OpenCV
4 3 (0.62%) Yocto
5 2 (0.41%) LangChain
5 2 (0.41%) React Native
5 2 (0.41%) REST
5 2 (0.41%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.21%) Flash
6 1 (0.21%) GStreamer
6 1 (0.21%) pytest
6 1 (0.21%) Spring
6 1 (0.21%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.21%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 88 (18.18%) Embedded Systems
2 48 (9.92%) FPGA
3 44 (9.09%) Algorithms
4 38 (7.85%) IoT
5 29 (5.99%) Analogue Electronics
6 28 (5.79%) VHDL
7 21 (4.34%) Driving Licence
8 17 (3.51%) ARM Cortex
8 17 (3.51%) Enterprise Storage
9 16 (3.31%) Data Centre
9 16 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (3.31%) PCIe
9 16 (3.31%) Raspberry Pi
10 13 (2.69%) Verilog
11 12 (2.48%) Replication
12 11 (2.27%) iSeries
12 11 (2.27%) Management Information System
13 10 (2.07%) NVMe
13 10 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 44 (9.09%) Linux
2 34 (7.02%) FreeRTOS
3 33 (6.82%) Windows
4 15 (3.10%) Embedded Linux
5 10 (2.07%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.83%) Android
6 4 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.41%) ThreadX
7 2 (0.41%) Unix
7 2 (0.41%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.21%) SafeRTOS
8 1 (0.21%) SUSE
8 1 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (40.50%) Software Engineering
2 68 (14.05%) Validation
3 55 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 48 (9.92%) Mentoring
6 43 (8.88%) Signal Processing
7 34 (7.02%) Test Automation
8 31 (6.40%) Cybersecurity
8 31 (6.40%) Technical Leadership
9 30 (6.20%) Software Testing
10 29 (5.99%) Collaborative Culture
11 27 (5.58%) Digital Signal Processing
11 27 (5.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 26 (5.37%) Root Cause Analysis
12 26 (5.37%) Systems Engineering
13 24 (4.96%) Disaster Recovery
13 24 (4.96%) Roadmaps
14 23 (4.75%) Project Delivery
15 22 (4.55%) AI
15 22 (4.55%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 147 (30.37%) C
2 97 (20.04%) C++
3 64 (13.22%) Python
4 51 (10.54%) Embedded C
5 20 (4.13%) MATLAB
6 17 (3.51%) C#
7 13 (2.69%) Assembly Language
7 13 (2.69%) Rust
8 12 (2.48%) Embedded C++
9 7 (1.45%) Java
10 6 (1.24%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.03%) SQL
12 3 (0.62%) Bash
12 3 (0.62%) Go
12 3 (0.62%) PHP
12 3 (0.62%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.41%) Ada
13 2 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.21%) Bicep
14 1 (0.21%) Perl
Qualifications
1 91 (18.80%) Degree
2 71 (14.67%) Security Cleared
3 49 (10.12%) SC Cleared
4 41 (8.47%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.86%) HND
8 7 (1.45%) CCNA
8 7 (1.45%) HNC
9 6 (1.24%) CCNP
10 5 (1.03%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.62%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.41%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.21%) HP ASE
13 1 (0.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.21%) NVQ Level 3
13 1 (0.21%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.51%) QA
2 16 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.07%) MISRA
4 7 (1.45%) IEC 61508
5 6 (1.24%) SLA
6 5 (1.03%) MISRA C
7 4 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.83%) GDPR
8 3 (0.62%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 2 (0.41%) ISO 26262
9 2 (0.41%) JTAG
9 2 (0.41%) NCSC
10 1 (0.21%) AUTOSAR
10 1 (0.21%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.21%) DO-254
10 1 (0.21%) HAZOP
10 1 (0.21%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 147 (30.37%) Embedded Firmware
2 26 (5.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 20 (4.13%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.45%) Docker
4 7 (1.45%) QEMU
5 5 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.62%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.62%) vSphere
7 1 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.21%) NFS
7 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (1.45%) Ansible
1 7 (1.45%) Terraform
2 6 (1.24%) FortiGate
2 6 (1.24%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.62%) Puppet
4 3 (0.62%) VxRail
5 2 (0.41%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (0.41%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.41%) Proxmox
5 2 (0.41%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.21%) Grafana
6 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (7.64%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.20%) EMC
3 26 (5.37%) VMware
4 25 (5.17%) Cisco
5 14 (2.89%) Fortinet
5 14 (2.89%) Veeam
5 14 (2.89%) Xilinx
6 13 (2.69%) HP
7 11 (2.27%) Commvault
7 11 (2.27%) Dell
7 11 (2.27%) IBM
8 10 (2.07%) Altera
9 6 (1.24%) Freshdesk
10 5 (1.03%) Meraki
10 5 (1.03%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.83%) WatchGuard
12 3 (0.62%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.62%) SAP
12 3 (0.62%) SonicWALL
12 3 (0.62%) Sophos