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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 329 381
Rank change year-on-year -33 +52 +242
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 283 471 336
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.65% 0.78% 0.70%
As % of the System Software category 5.94% 6.87% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 191 265 261
10th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,500 £43,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £63,125 £65,000 £60,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% -8.70%

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 4,765 6,853 8,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.93% 11.29% 17.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,157 3,964 6,754
10th Percentile £27,150 £30,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £49,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.45% - -

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 3 November 2025.

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 3 November 2025. 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 +4 118 £55,000 +11.20% 88
Midlands +3 42 £47,500 -20.83% 31
North of England -5 42 £46,500 -15.45% 37
London +83 41 £60,000 +9.09% 30
West Midlands +43 29 £50,000 -21.26% 13
Yorkshire +13 23 £46,000 -16.36% 8
East of England -19 21 £68,000 +34.65% 55
South West -23 18 £52,500 -19.23% 63
North West +3 14 £46,500 -9.71% 23
East Midlands -21 13 £42,500 -29.17% 18
North East 0 5 £56,500 +0.89% 6
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 6 (2.12%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.35%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (2.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 31 (10.95%) Azure
2 28 (9.89%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (6.01%) Entra ID
4 11 (3.89%) AWS
5 10 (3.53%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (1.77%) GCP
7 3 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.71%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.71%) Firebase
8 2 (0.71%) Serverless
9 1 (0.35%) Amazon Alexa
9 1 (0.35%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.35%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.35%) AWS IoT
9 1 (0.35%) BigCommerce
9 1 (0.35%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (21.91%) Software-Defined Radio
2 37 (13.07%) Wireless
3 32 (11.31%) Firewall
4 23 (8.13%) Wi-Fi
5 16 (5.65%) WAN
6 15 (5.30%) NX-OS
6 15 (5.30%) RS-485
7 14 (4.95%) DHCP
7 14 (4.95%) DNS
8 13 (4.59%) LAN
8 13 (4.59%) Modbus
9 12 (4.24%) Cisco ISE
9 12 (4.24%) VLAN
10 11 (3.89%) Cisco Firepower
10 11 (3.89%) TCP/IP
11 10 (3.53%) VPN
12 9 (3.18%) Cisco IOS
12 9 (3.18%) Internet
12 9 (3.18%) Junos
13 7 (2.47%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (0.71%) Big Data
1 2 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (3.89%) Visual Studio
2 10 (3.53%) Git
3 8 (2.83%) JIRA
4 4 (1.41%) GitLab
5 3 (1.06%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.71%) Postman
7 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.35%) Subversion
General
1 61 (21.55%) Electronics
2 55 (19.43%) Social Skills
3 53 (18.73%) Finance
4 35 (12.37%) Manufacturing
5 16 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.30%) Automotive
6 15 (5.30%) Law
7 12 (4.24%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.18%) Legal
9 7 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.12%) Banking
10 6 (2.12%) Military
11 5 (1.77%) Marketing
11 5 (1.77%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.41%) Retail
13 3 (1.06%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.71%) Advertising
14 2 (0.71%) Back Office
14 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (26.50%) Embedded Engineer
2 54 (19.08%) Software Engineer
3 44 (15.55%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 31 (10.95%) Firmware Engineer
4 31 (10.95%) Systems Engineer
5 29 (10.25%) Electronics Engineer
6 28 (9.89%) Network Engineer
6 28 (9.89%) Radio Engineer
7 23 (8.13%) Design Engineer
8 22 (7.77%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
9 19 (6.71%) Senior
10 15 (5.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (5.30%) IT Support
11 12 (4.24%) C++ Software Engineer
11 12 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.24%) Lead
12 11 (3.89%) Analyst
12 11 (3.89%) IT Engineer
12 11 (3.89%) Support Analyst
13 10 (3.53%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.18%) Flash
2 3 (1.06%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (1.06%) Node.js
3 2 (0.71%) React
3 2 (0.71%) XML
4 1 (0.35%) .NET
4 1 (0.35%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.35%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.35%) CSS
4 1 (0.35%) HTML
4 1 (0.35%) LAMP
4 1 (0.35%) Laravel
4 1 (0.35%) Middleware
4 1 (0.35%) React Native
4 1 (0.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 69 (24.38%) Embedded Systems
2 40 (14.13%) FPGA
3 35 (12.37%) RISC-V
4 33 (11.66%) e-Learning
4 33 (11.66%) MicroBlaze
5 20 (7.07%) Analogue Electronics
6 13 (4.59%) Data Centre
7 12 (4.24%) VHDL
8 11 (3.89%) IoT
8 11 (3.89%) Management Information System
8 11 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (3.18%) CAN bus
9 9 (3.18%) PKI
10 8 (2.83%) Renewable Energy
10 8 (2.83%) SCADA
11 7 (2.47%) Verilog
12 6 (2.12%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.77%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 63 (22.26%) Linux
2 45 (15.90%) Embedded Linux
3 42 (14.84%) Windows
4 10 (3.53%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.41%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (25.80%) Signal Processing
2 69 (24.38%) Digital Signal Processing
3 67 (23.67%) Software Engineering
4 66 (23.32%) Innovative Thinking
5 49 (17.31%) Agile
6 41 (14.49%) Physics
7 33 (11.66%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (10.95%) Mentoring
9 24 (8.48%) Change Management
10 20 (7.07%) Collaborative Culture
11 18 (6.36%) Validation
12 17 (6.01%) ITSM
13 15 (5.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 13 (4.59%) Customer Service
14 13 (4.59%) ITIL
14 13 (4.59%) Service Management
15 12 (4.24%) Computer Science
15 12 (4.24%) Embedded Software Development
16 11 (3.89%) Decision-Making
16 11 (3.89%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 99 (34.98%) C
2 75 (26.50%) C++
3 37 (13.07%) Embedded C
4 28 (9.89%) MATLAB
5 19 (6.71%) Python
6 12 (4.24%) Embedded C++
6 12 (4.24%) PowerShell
7 11 (3.89%) C#
8 8 (2.83%) SQL
9 3 (1.06%) Java
10 2 (0.71%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.35%) Bash
11 1 (0.35%) PHP
11 1 (0.35%) Rust
11 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 94 (33.22%) Security Cleared
2 81 (28.62%) SC Cleared
3 47 (16.61%) Degree
4 17 (6.01%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.89%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.83%) NVQ Level 3
7 7 (2.47%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.47%) HND
8 6 (2.12%) CCNP
9 5 (1.77%) CCNA
9 5 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.77%) HNC
9 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.41%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (1.06%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.71%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.12%) MISRA
3 5 (1.77%) IEC 61508
3 5 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 4 (1.41%) GDPR
5 3 (1.06%) QA
5 3 (1.06%) SLA
6 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.71%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.71%) HAZOP
6 2 (0.71%) ISO 9000
6 2 (0.71%) JTAG
7 1 (0.35%) GxP
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 127 (44.88%) Embedded Firmware
2 22 (7.77%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.89%) BitLocker
4 9 (3.18%) VMware NSX
5 8 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.35%) Docker
7 1 (0.35%) NFS
Systems Management
1 16 (5.65%) SCCM
2 12 (4.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (3.89%) vCenter Server
4 8 (2.83%) Terraform
5 7 (2.47%) Functional Safety
6 3 (1.06%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.35%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.35%) Ansible
8 1 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.35%) Podman
8 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 41 (14.49%) Cisco
2 34 (12.01%) Microsoft
3 26 (9.19%) EMC
4 17 (6.01%) Juniper
5 16 (5.65%) SolarWinds
6 15 (5.30%) Apple
7 14 (4.95%) VMware
8 12 (4.24%) Fortinet
8 12 (4.24%) HP
9 11 (3.89%) MobileIron
10 9 (3.18%) Broadcom
11 8 (2.83%) Palo Alto
12 7 (2.47%) McAfee
12 7 (2.47%) Remedy
13 6 (2.12%) CheckPoint
14 5 (1.77%) Meraki
14 5 (1.77%) SAP
15 4 (1.41%) Adobe
15 4 (1.41%) Dell
16 3 (1.06%) NetApp