Firmware Jobs in the UK excluding London

Firmware
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Firmware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Firmware over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 398 387
Rank change year-on-year +158 -11 -13
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 865 431 618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.17% 0.74% 0.84%
As % of the System Software category 9.79% 4.67% 4.94%
Number of salaries quoted 637 324 216
10th Percentile £31,125 £27,000 £31,275
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,625 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Firmware is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,837 9,232 12,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.94% 15.89% 16.99%
Number of salaries quoted 6,999 5,688 8,383
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.90% +0.91%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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 +105 269 £50,000 +11.11% 113
Midlands +84 125 £52,500 +20.00% 54
East of England +49 114 £55,000 -15.38% 66
North of England +69 112 £52,500 +63.04% 34
South West +24 103 £55,000 -13.73% 38
Scotland -9 100 £52,500 -0.94% 36
West Midlands +58 70 £60,000 +31.87% 15
North West +16 66 £53,750 +2.38% 24
East Midlands +29 55 £50,000 +81.82% 39
Yorkshire +81 36 £42,500 +31.99% 9
Wales +8 25 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Northern Ireland +33 17 £28,000 -13.85% 2
North East - 10 £55,000 - 1
Firmware
UK

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (1.16%) SharePoint
2 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.58%) Kinematics
4 2 (0.23%) Confluence
5 1 (0.12%) Apache
5 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 24 (2.77%) Simulink
2 16 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.16%) OrCAD
4 6 (0.69%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (0.46%) Windchill
6 3 (0.35%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 23 (2.66%) Azure
2 20 (2.31%) AWS
3 14 (1.62%) GitHub
4 13 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (0.92%) OneDrive
5 8 (0.92%) Power Platform
6 7 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (0.69%) SaaS
8 5 (0.58%) AWS IoT
8 5 (0.58%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.23%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.23%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.12%) Akamai
10 1 (0.12%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.12%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.12%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 120 (13.87%) Wireless
2 45 (5.20%) Ethernet
3 37 (4.28%) TCP/IP
4 28 (3.24%) Bluetooth
5 25 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
6 24 (2.77%) MQTT
7 23 (2.66%) Firewall
7 23 (2.66%) HTTP
8 20 (2.31%) WAN
9 18 (2.08%) LAN
9 18 (2.08%) RS-232
10 16 (1.85%) DNS
10 16 (1.85%) Internet
10 16 (1.85%) OSPF
10 16 (1.85%) SD-WAN
11 15 (1.73%) 5G
12 13 (1.50%) Wireshark
13 12 (1.39%) BGP
13 12 (1.39%) Software-Defined Radio
14 11 (1.27%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.92%) Power BI
2 6 (0.69%) Relational Database
3 5 (0.58%) Big Data
4 3 (0.35%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.23%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.12%) MySQL
6 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 51 (5.90%) Git
2 27 (3.12%) Jenkins
3 22 (2.54%) JIRA
3 22 (2.54%) Rational DOORS
4 15 (1.73%) Subversion
5 13 (1.50%) LabVIEW
6 9 (1.04%) Rational Team Concert
7 6 (0.69%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.46%) GitLab
8 4 (0.46%) Rational Rhapsody
9 3 (0.35%) GCC
9 3 (0.35%) GDB
9 3 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.23%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.23%) PetaLinux
10 2 (0.23%) Postman
11 1 (0.12%) CMake
11 1 (0.12%) Phabricator
11 1 (0.12%) Selenium
11 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 367 (42.43%) Electronics
2 213 (24.62%) Social Skills
3 191 (22.08%) Manufacturing
4 138 (15.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 73 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (5.66%) Automotive
7 47 (5.43%) Marketing
8 46 (5.32%) Finance
9 38 (4.39%) Telecoms
10 36 (4.16%) Public Sector
11 34 (3.93%) Retail
12 33 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (2.08%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.50%) Legal
15 12 (1.39%) Military
16 9 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.81%) Aviation
18 5 (0.58%) French Language
19 2 (0.23%) Avionics
19 2 (0.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 280 (32.37%) Embedded Engineer
2 179 (20.69%) Software Engineer
3 172 (19.88%) Senior
4 141 (16.30%) Electronics Engineer
5 124 (14.34%) Firmware Engineer
6 121 (13.99%) Graduate
7 119 (13.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 107 (12.37%) Junior
9 87 (10.06%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
10 84 (9.71%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
11 79 (9.13%) Junior Electronics Engineer
12 78 (9.02%) Development Engineer
13 74 (8.55%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 71 (8.21%) Graduate Development Engineer
15 59 (6.82%) Systems Engineer
16 53 (6.13%) Lead
17 51 (5.90%) Senior Software Engineer
18 48 (5.55%) Hardware Engineer
19 47 (5.43%) Developer
20 41 (4.74%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.97%) HTML
1 17 (1.97%) Yocto
2 15 (1.73%) CSS
3 14 (1.62%) 802.1X
4 13 (1.50%) Flask
4 13 (1.50%) Node.js
4 13 (1.50%) Qt
5 12 (1.39%) Middleware
6 10 (1.16%) .NET
7 8 (0.92%) Django
7 8 (0.92%) React
8 7 (0.81%) Web Services
9 5 (0.58%) FFmpeg
9 5 (0.58%) Flash
9 5 (0.58%) GStreamer
9 5 (0.58%) OpenCV
9 5 (0.58%) REST
9 5 (0.58%) WPF
10 3 (0.35%) POSIX
11 2 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 100 (11.56%) FPGA
2 71 (8.21%) Embedded Systems
3 56 (6.47%) Self-Motivation
4 50 (5.78%) IoT
5 47 (5.43%) Data Centre
6 41 (4.74%) Driving Licence
7 36 (4.16%) Algorithms
8 34 (3.93%) Analogue Electronics
9 32 (3.70%) VHDL
10 26 (3.01%) Management Information System
11 23 (2.66%) EPoS
12 21 (2.43%) GNSS
13 19 (2.20%) Mobile App
14 18 (2.08%) Device Driver
15 13 (1.50%) PCIe
15 13 (1.50%) Video\Live Streaming
16 11 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (1.27%) Raspberry Pi
17 10 (1.16%) Arduino
17 10 (1.16%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 153 (17.69%) Linux
2 104 (12.02%) Windows
3 52 (6.01%) Embedded Linux
4 28 (3.24%) Windows Server
5 19 (2.20%) Windows 10
6 16 (1.85%) Unix
6 16 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (1.62%) FreeRTOS
8 14 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (1.39%) Windows NT
10 10 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 8 (0.92%) AIX
11 8 (0.92%) Solaris
12 7 (0.81%) Android
12 7 (0.81%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.58%) VxWorks
14 3 (0.35%) Debian
14 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (34.10%) Software Engineering
2 142 (16.42%) Computer Science
3 129 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (12.95%) Schematic Capture
5 83 (9.60%) Project Planning
6 76 (8.79%) Agile
7 62 (7.17%) Customer Service
8 61 (7.05%) Software Testing
9 59 (6.82%) Mentoring
10 57 (6.59%) SDLC
11 54 (6.24%) ITIL
12 50 (5.78%) Customer Requirements
12 50 (5.78%) Validation
13 49 (5.66%) Mathematics
14 46 (5.32%) Physics
15 42 (4.86%) Business Intelligence
16 40 (4.62%) Artificial Intelligence
16 40 (4.62%) Signal Processing
17 39 (4.51%) Programme Management
18 38 (4.39%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 341 (39.42%) C
2 163 (18.84%) C++
3 110 (12.72%) Embedded C
4 105 (12.14%) Python
5 46 (5.32%) C#
6 27 (3.12%) MATLAB
6 27 (3.12%) SQL
7 24 (2.77%) Embedded C++
8 21 (2.43%) Java
9 20 (2.31%) Bash
10 18 (2.08%) Perl
11 13 (1.50%) JavaScript
12 10 (1.16%) Tcl
13 8 (0.92%) VB
14 7 (0.81%) Assembly Language
14 7 (0.81%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.58%) XAML
16 3 (0.35%) Groovy
16 3 (0.35%) Lua
16 3 (0.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 344 (39.77%) Degree
2 100 (11.56%) Security Cleared
3 61 (7.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 33 (3.82%) DV Cleared
5 31 (3.58%) SC Cleared
6 17 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (1.97%) Master's Degree
7 16 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.27%) CCNP
9 8 (0.92%) CCNA
9 8 (0.92%) HND
10 7 (0.81%) CCDP
10 7 (0.81%) CCIE
10 7 (0.81%) CCIE Routing and Switching
10 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.58%) PhD
11 5 (0.58%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.46%) HNC
12 4 (0.46%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (0.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.70%) SLA
2 31 (3.58%) QA
3 19 (2.20%) MISRA
4 14 (1.62%) JTAG
5 11 (1.27%) MISRA C
6 10 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.04%) ISO 13485
8 8 (0.92%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 5 (0.58%) ISO 26262
10 4 (0.46%) GDPR
10 4 (0.46%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.35%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.35%) ECSS
12 2 (0.23%) Automotive SPICE
12 2 (0.23%) AUTOSAR
12 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 61131
13 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 357 (41.27%) Embedded Firmware
2 32 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.73%) Hyper-V
6 14 (1.62%) Docker
7 6 (0.69%) vSphere
8 5 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.23%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.12%) NFS
11 1 (0.12%) pfSense
11 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (3.24%) SCCM
2 19 (2.20%) Ansible
3 14 (1.62%) WSUS
4 12 (1.39%) Kubernetes
4 12 (1.39%) Sysprep
5 9 (1.04%) SCOM
6 7 (0.81%) Functional Safety
6 7 (0.81%) NetBackup
7 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.46%) Podman
8 4 (0.46%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.35%) Grafana
9 3 (0.35%) Terraform
10 2 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 118 (13.64%) EMC
2 51 (5.90%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.05%) SAP
4 33 (3.82%) HP
5 30 (3.47%) IBM
6 29 (3.35%) VMware
7 25 (2.89%) NetApp
8 24 (2.77%) Dell
9 20 (2.31%) Xilinx
10 18 (2.08%) Cisco
10 18 (2.08%) Red Hat
11 13 (1.50%) Fortinet
12 12 (1.39%) Veeam
13 9 (1.04%) Altera
13 9 (1.04%) Citrix
13 9 (1.04%) Intel
14 8 (0.92%) Green Hills
14 8 (0.92%) Motorola
14 8 (0.92%) Oracle
15 7 (0.81%) McAfee