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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 390 344
Rank change year-on-year +21 -46 +125
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 429 285 563
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.66% 0.74%
As % of the System Software category 8.32% 5.01% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 339 195 443
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,950 £32,500
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% +15.79%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 5,154 5,685 8,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.71% 13.09% 10.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3,838 3,575 6,197
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,533 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% - -9.09%

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 29 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 29 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 -15 148 £65,000 +12.55% 69
North of England +30 85 £55,000 +19.57% 32
East of England +1 63 £71,250 +18.75% 55
Midlands -16 62 £54,000 +13.68% 32
South West -23 57 £60,000 +14.29% 22
Yorkshire -4 36 £55,000 +19.57% 7
North West +9 32 £54,750 +14.82% 18
East Midlands -17 31 £54,000 +13.68% 18
West Midlands -21 29 £65,000 +55.69% 14
North East - 17 £51,000 - 8
London -56 11 £67,500 +12.50% 39
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 (0.70%) Confluence
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (2.80%) Simulink
2 5 (1.17%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.47%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (2.56%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 4 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (8.16%) Azure
2 19 (4.43%) AWS
3 14 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (1.40%) SaaS
5 4 (0.93%) Entra ID
6 3 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (0.70%) Amazon S3
6 3 (0.70%) AWS IoT
6 3 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (0.70%) GCP
6 3 (0.70%) Serverless
7 2 (0.47%) GitHub
7 2 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.23%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.23%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.23%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.23%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 35 (8.16%) Wireless
2 28 (6.53%) Bluetooth
3 26 (6.06%) Firewall
4 19 (4.43%) Modbus
5 16 (3.73%) WAN
6 15 (3.50%) TCP/IP
7 14 (3.26%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (3.03%) RS-232
8 13 (3.03%) VPN
9 12 (2.80%) RS-485
9 12 (2.80%) VLAN
10 11 (2.56%) ZigBee
11 10 (2.33%) Ethernet
11 10 (2.33%) Profibus
12 9 (2.10%) SAN
13 8 (1.86%) LTE
14 7 (1.63%) LAN
14 7 (1.63%) SD-WAN
15 6 (1.40%) BGP
15 6 (1.40%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.47%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (4.43%) Git
2 15 (3.50%) Rational DOORS
3 9 (2.10%) JIRA
4 6 (1.40%) LabVIEW
5 5 (1.17%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.93%) GitLab
7 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.47%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.47%) GDB
8 2 (0.47%) MLflow
8 2 (0.47%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.47%) Subversion
8 2 (0.47%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.23%) GoogleTest
9 1 (0.23%) Polyspace
9 1 (0.23%) Postman
9 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.23%) VectorCAST
9 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 136 (31.70%) Electronics
2 62 (14.45%) Social Skills
3 46 (10.72%) Manufacturing
4 34 (7.93%) Automotive
5 24 (5.59%) Aerospace
6 15 (3.50%) Finance
7 10 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.10%) Military
9 7 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.40%) Retail
10 6 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.17%) Marketing
12 4 (0.93%) Law
13 3 (0.70%) Games
13 3 (0.70%) Wearables
14 2 (0.47%) Aviation
14 2 (0.47%) Avionics
14 2 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 150 (34.97%) Software Engineer
2 138 (32.17%) Embedded Engineer
3 103 (24.01%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 86 (20.05%) Senior
5 50 (11.66%) Firmware Engineer
6 46 (10.72%) Lead
7 45 (10.49%) Senior Software Engineer
8 41 (9.56%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 35 (8.16%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 26 (6.06%) Electronics Engineer
11 25 (5.83%) FPGA Engineer
11 25 (5.83%) Systems Engineer
12 24 (5.59%) Design Engineer
13 22 (5.13%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
13 22 (5.13%) Technical Leader
14 19 (4.43%) Senior Firmware Engineer
15 16 (3.73%) Test Engineer
16 15 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 12 (2.80%) Hardware Engineer
17 12 (2.80%) QA Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.33%) .NET
2 5 (1.17%) WPF
3 4 (0.93%) Node.js
3 4 (0.93%) React
3 4 (0.93%) WebSockets
3 4 (0.93%) Yocto
4 3 (0.70%) .NET Framework
4 3 (0.70%) Avalonia
4 3 (0.70%) OpenCV
5 2 (0.47%) LangChain
5 2 (0.47%) React Native
5 2 (0.47%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.23%) GStreamer
6 1 (0.23%) Micronaut
6 1 (0.23%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.23%) pytest
6 1 (0.23%) REST
6 1 (0.23%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.23%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 89 (20.75%) Embedded Systems
2 45 (10.49%) FPGA
3 44 (10.26%) Algorithms
4 40 (9.32%) IoT
5 26 (6.06%) VHDL
6 25 (5.83%) Analogue Electronics
7 20 (4.66%) PCIe
8 18 (4.20%) Driving Licence
9 16 (3.73%) ARM Cortex
9 16 (3.73%) Enterprise Storage
10 15 (3.50%) Data Centre
11 13 (3.03%) Raspberry Pi
12 12 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (2.80%) Verilog
13 11 (2.56%) iSeries
13 11 (2.56%) NVMe
13 11 (2.56%) Replication
14 9 (2.10%) Management Information System
15 7 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
16 6 (1.40%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 39 (9.09%) Linux
2 34 (7.93%) FreeRTOS
3 24 (5.59%) Windows
4 16 (3.73%) Embedded Linux
5 6 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.93%) Android
7 3 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.47%) ThreadX
8 2 (0.47%) Unix
9 1 (0.23%) SafeRTOS
9 1 (0.23%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (41.49%) Software Engineering
2 56 (13.05%) Validation
3 44 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 41 (9.56%) Signal Processing
6 34 (7.93%) Mentoring
7 30 (6.99%) Test Automation
8 29 (6.76%) Collaborative Culture
9 28 (6.53%) Software Testing
10 25 (5.83%) Technical Leadership
11 24 (5.59%) Digital Signal Processing
11 24 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 23 (5.36%) Roadmaps
13 22 (5.13%) Embedded Software Development
13 22 (5.13%) Root Cause Analysis
14 21 (4.90%) AI
14 21 (4.90%) Disaster Recovery
14 21 (4.90%) Systems Engineering
15 20 (4.66%) Computer Science
15 20 (4.66%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 142 (33.10%) C
2 97 (22.61%) C++
3 58 (13.52%) Python
4 49 (11.42%) Embedded C
5 21 (4.90%) C#
6 18 (4.20%) MATLAB
7 14 (3.26%) Assembly Language
8 12 (2.80%) Embedded C++
9 11 (2.56%) Rust
10 6 (1.40%) Java
11 4 (0.93%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.93%) SQL
12 3 (0.70%) PHP
13 2 (0.47%) Bash
13 2 (0.47%) Go
13 2 (0.47%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.23%) Ada
14 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 68 (15.85%) Degree
2 55 (12.82%) Security Cleared
3 37 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 30 (6.99%) DV Cleared
5 8 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.17%) CCNA
7 5 (1.17%) CCNP
7 5 (1.17%) HND
7 5 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.70%) HNC
8 3 (0.70%) PhD
9 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.47%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.23%) CCA
10 1 (0.23%) ISEB
10 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.23%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.96%) QA
2 9 (2.10%) MISRA
3 7 (1.63%) IEC 61508
4 6 (1.40%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.40%) SLA
5 5 (1.17%) MISRA C
6 4 (0.93%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 3 (0.70%) JTAG
8 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.47%) GDPR
8 2 (0.47%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.47%) NCSC
9 1 (0.23%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.23%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.23%) DO-254
9 1 (0.23%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 146 (34.03%) Embedded Firmware
2 21 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.96%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.63%) Docker
5 6 (1.40%) QEMU
6 3 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.23%) NFS
7 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (1.40%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.17%) Ansible
2 5 (1.17%) FortiGate
2 5 (1.17%) Terraform
3 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.93%) Puppet
4 2 (0.47%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (0.47%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.23%) Grafana
5 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.23%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 32 (7.46%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.36%) EMC
3 21 (4.90%) Cisco
3 21 (4.90%) VMware
4 13 (3.03%) Altera
4 13 (3.03%) HP
4 13 (3.03%) Xilinx
5 12 (2.80%) Veeam
6 11 (2.56%) Commvault
6 11 (2.56%) Fortinet
6 11 (2.56%) IBM
7 9 (2.10%) Dell
8 6 (1.40%) Freshdesk
9 4 (0.93%) Google
9 4 (0.93%) Meraki
9 4 (0.93%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.93%) SAP
10 3 (0.70%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.47%) Motorola
11 2 (0.47%) WatchGuard