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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 365 329
Rank change year-on-year +32 -36 +85
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 564 302 515
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 0.71% 0.77%
As % of the System Software category 10.25% 5.70% 7.28%
Number of salaries quoted 438 208 323
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,000 £40,013
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +6.80%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 5,502 5,297 7,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.35% 12.37% 10.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,007 3,210 4,342
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -11.82% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,835
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.82% -0.30%

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 23 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 23 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 -2 175 £65,000 +18.18% 202
Midlands +9 115 £56,750 +33.53% 83
North of England +10 100 £57,500 +24.32% 91
East of England +18 90 £66,250 +1.92% 190
South West -31 66 £60,000 +14.29% 103
East Midlands +4 57 £54,000 +13.68% 42
West Midlands -12 56 £65,000 +64.56% 41
North West +3 45 £57,500 +23.66% 47
North East -40 31 £55,000 +13.99% 18
Yorkshire -31 24 £54,000 +17.39% 27
London -98 14 £42,500 -29.17% 173
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 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (3.90%) Simulink
2 11 (1.95%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.35%) AutoCAD
3 2 (0.35%) MicroStation
3 2 (0.35%) OrCAD
3 2 (0.35%) Revit
3 2 (0.35%) Weka
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (1.60%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 52 (9.22%) Azure
2 22 (3.90%) AWS
3 20 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (1.60%) Entra ID
5 5 (0.89%) GCP
5 5 (0.89%) SaaS
6 4 (0.71%) Azure Stack
6 4 (0.71%) Nutanix
7 3 (0.53%) AWS IoT
7 3 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.53%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (0.53%) Cohesity
7 3 (0.53%) GitHub
7 3 (0.53%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.35%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.18%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.18%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.18%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.18%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 43 (7.62%) Wireless
2 33 (5.85%) Firewall
3 26 (4.61%) Bluetooth
4 24 (4.26%) Modbus
4 24 (4.26%) VPN
5 23 (4.08%) VLAN
5 23 (4.08%) WAN
6 20 (3.55%) TCP/IP
7 19 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (2.84%) SAN
9 15 (2.66%) LTE
9 15 (2.66%) RS-232
10 14 (2.48%) RS-485
11 13 (2.30%) DNS
11 13 (2.30%) LAN
12 11 (1.95%) Ethernet
12 11 (1.95%) SD-WAN
12 11 (1.95%) ZigBee
13 10 (1.77%) Network Security
13 10 (1.77%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.18%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (3.55%) Git
2 14 (2.48%) Rational DOORS
3 13 (2.30%) LabVIEW
4 12 (2.13%) JIRA
5 10 (1.77%) Eclipse
6 6 (1.06%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.89%) GitLab
8 3 (0.53%) Postman
9 2 (0.35%) GDB
9 2 (0.35%) MLflow
9 2 (0.35%) Rational Rhapsody
9 2 (0.35%) Subversion
9 2 (0.35%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.18%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.18%) Polyspace
10 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.18%) VectorCAST
10 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 193 (34.22%) Electronics
2 101 (17.91%) Social Skills
3 70 (12.41%) Manufacturing
4 41 (7.27%) Automotive
5 40 (7.09%) Aerospace
6 35 (6.21%) Finance
7 33 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
8 22 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.48%) Legal
10 12 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.60%) Military
11 9 (1.60%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.24%) Law
13 6 (1.06%) Retail
14 5 (0.89%) Advertising
15 4 (0.71%) Marketing
15 4 (0.71%) Music Industry
16 2 (0.35%) Games
16 2 (0.35%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 166 (29.43%) Software Engineer
2 146 (25.89%) Embedded Engineer
3 118 (20.92%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 106 (18.79%) Senior
5 73 (12.94%) Lead
6 72 (12.77%) Electronics Engineer
7 53 (9.40%) Senior Software Engineer
8 50 (8.87%) Firmware Engineer
8 50 (8.87%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 48 (8.51%) Design Engineer
10 43 (7.62%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 34 (6.03%) FPGA Engineer
12 32 (5.67%) Electronics Design Engineer
13 27 (4.79%) Systems Engineer
14 22 (3.90%) Technical Leader
15 21 (3.72%) Test Engineer
16 19 (3.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 18 (3.19%) Senior Electronics Engineer
18 17 (3.01%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
19 16 (2.84%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.42%) .NET
1 8 (1.42%) Terraform
2 5 (0.89%) Yocto
3 4 (0.71%) REST
3 4 (0.71%) WPF
4 3 (0.53%) Node.js
4 3 (0.53%) React
4 3 (0.53%) WebSockets
5 2 (0.35%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.35%) Avalonia
5 2 (0.35%) LangChain
5 2 (0.35%) OpenCV
5 2 (0.35%) React Native
5 2 (0.35%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.18%) JWT
6 1 (0.18%) LDAP
6 1 (0.18%) Micronaut
6 1 (0.18%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.18%) Spring
6 1 (0.18%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 100 (17.73%) Embedded Systems
2 57 (10.11%) Analogue Electronics
2 57 (10.11%) FPGA
3 40 (7.09%) Algorithms
4 34 (6.03%) IoT
5 28 (4.96%) VHDL
6 25 (4.43%) Data Centre
7 23 (4.08%) Driving Licence
8 20 (3.55%) Enterprise Storage
9 19 (3.37%) Raspberry Pi
10 15 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (2.48%) ARM Cortex
11 14 (2.48%) PCIe
11 14 (2.48%) Verilog
12 12 (2.13%) Replication
13 11 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.95%) iSeries
14 9 (1.60%) NVMe
14 9 (1.60%) Robotics
14 9 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.62%) Linux
2 42 (7.45%) Windows
3 32 (5.67%) FreeRTOS
4 17 (3.01%) Embedded Linux
4 17 (3.01%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.71%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.35%) OpenWrt
7 2 (0.35%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.18%) Android
8 1 (0.18%) Debian
8 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.18%) SUSE
8 1 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.18%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (35.28%) Software Engineering
2 89 (15.78%) Validation
3 67 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (9.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 53 (9.40%) Mentoring
6 47 (8.33%) Signal Processing
7 45 (7.98%) Test Automation
8 41 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
9 39 (6.91%) Software Testing
10 38 (6.74%) Root Cause Analysis
11 37 (6.56%) Schematic Capture
12 35 (6.21%) Technical Leadership
13 33 (5.85%) Disaster Recovery
14 32 (5.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 30 (5.32%) Digital Signal Processing
16 28 (4.96%) Agile
17 26 (4.61%) Collaborative Culture
17 26 (4.61%) Customer Service
17 26 (4.61%) Project Delivery
18 24 (4.26%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 174 (30.85%) C
2 115 (20.39%) C++
3 65 (11.52%) Python
4 58 (10.28%) Embedded C
5 30 (5.32%) MATLAB
6 16 (2.84%) C#
7 14 (2.48%) Java
7 14 (2.48%) Rust
8 12 (2.13%) Assembly Language
9 11 (1.95%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.60%) Embedded C++
11 4 (0.71%) SQL
12 3 (0.53%) Bash
12 3 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.35%) Ada
13 2 (0.35%) Go
13 2 (0.35%) Perl
14 1 (0.18%) Bicep
14 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 110 (19.50%) Degree
2 75 (13.30%) Security Cleared
3 47 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 39 (6.91%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (1.95%) HND
8 10 (1.77%) HNC
9 9 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.24%) CCNP
10 7 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.06%) CCNA
12 4 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.53%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 1 (0.18%) A+ Certification
15 1 (0.18%) CCA
15 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.84%) Accessibility
1 16 (2.84%) QA
2 15 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.77%) MISRA
4 6 (1.06%) GDPR
4 6 (1.06%) IEC 61508
4 6 (1.06%) SLA
5 5 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.71%) ISO 9001
6 4 (0.71%) MISRA C
7 3 (0.53%) JTAG
8 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 1 (0.18%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.18%) DO-254
9 1 (0.18%) HAZOP
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 26262
9 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 177 (31.38%) Embedded Firmware
2 34 (6.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (4.61%) Hyper-V
4 25 (4.43%) Active Directory
5 10 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (1.24%) vSphere
7 6 (1.06%) QEMU
8 5 (0.89%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.71%) Docker
10 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.18%) NFS
Systems Management
1 10 (1.77%) Ansible
2 6 (1.06%) FortiGate
3 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.89%) VxRail
4 4 (0.71%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.53%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.35%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (0.35%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.35%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.18%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.18%) Grafana
7 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (7.98%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.56%) EMC
2 37 (6.56%) VMware
3 30 (5.32%) Cisco
4 17 (3.01%) Fortinet
5 16 (2.84%) Veeam
6 15 (2.66%) Xilinx
7 14 (2.48%) HP
8 12 (2.13%) Dell
9 11 (1.95%) Commvault
9 11 (1.95%) IBM
10 9 (1.60%) Altera
11 8 (1.42%) Meraki
12 6 (1.06%) Freshdesk
13 5 (0.89%) Palo Alto
14 4 (0.71%) F5
14 4 (0.71%) Infoblox
14 4 (0.71%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.71%) SolarWinds
14 4 (0.71%) WatchGuard