Firmware Jobs in the West Midlands

Firmware
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Firmware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firmware over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 176 256
Rank change year-on-year -9 +80 +3
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 19 64 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.45% 0.95% 0.36%
As % of the System Software category 5.85% 7.56% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 17 44 12
10th Percentile £44,788 £50,000 £27,700
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £42,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £61,500 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.01% +35.16% -14.15%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £110,000
90th Percentile - £80,000 -
England median annual salary £55,384 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.49% +10.53% -10.38%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 325 847 850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.77% 12.58% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 241 714 578
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,480 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -3.51%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the West Midlands

Firmware
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Firmware in the West Midlands

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Firmware in the West Midlands

Firmware
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 April 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
Birmingham +34 5 £50,000 - 3
Warwickshire -28 5 £65,000 - 2
Staffordshire +13 4 £51,251 +81.42% 2
Herefordshire +5 2 - -
Shropshire +15 1 £52,500 -
Coventry -9 1 £67,500 -15.63%
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Azure
3 1 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 10 (52.63%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (31.58%) Firewall
3 5 (26.32%) SD-WAN
3 5 (26.32%) Wireless
4 4 (21.05%) Bluetooth
4 4 (21.05%) GSM
4 4 (21.05%) J1939
4 4 (21.05%) Network Security
5 3 (15.79%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (15.79%) IPsec
5 3 (15.79%) VPN
6 2 (10.53%) Junos
7 1 (5.26%) BGP
7 1 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (5.26%) OpenScape
7 1 (5.26%) OSPF
7 1 (5.26%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Appium
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) TestRail
General
1 5 (26.32%) Automotive
2 4 (21.05%) Police
3 2 (10.53%) Electronics
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.26%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Network Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Embedded Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
3 4 (21.05%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Telematics Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 3 (15.79%) Support Team Leader
4 3 (15.79%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.26%) Associate Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Communications Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Design Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Electronics Design Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Electronics Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Firmware Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Head of Projects
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) HTML
2 1 (5.26%) Laravel
2 1 (5.26%) RESTful
2 1 (5.26%) SAML
2 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) iPad
1 3 (15.79%) iPhone
1 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.53%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.26%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Apple iOS
2 3 (15.79%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) Android
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Agile
1 6 (31.58%) Change Management
1 6 (31.58%) ITIL
2 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
3 4 (21.05%) Embedded Software Development
3 4 (21.05%) Multithreading
3 4 (21.05%) Release Management
3 4 (21.05%) Scrum
3 4 (21.05%) Service Delivery
3 4 (21.05%) Telematics
4 3 (15.79%) Asset Management
4 3 (15.79%) Availability Management
4 3 (15.79%) Document Management
4 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
4 3 (15.79%) Line Management
4 3 (15.79%) Load Balancing
4 3 (15.79%) Major Incident Management
4 3 (15.79%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (15.79%) Network Design
4 3 (15.79%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) C
2 1 (5.26%) Assembly Language
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) PHP
2 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) VB
2 1 (5.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Degree
2 5 (26.32%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (21.05%) CCNA
4 3 (15.79%) CCNP
5 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
5 1 (5.26%) PMP
5 1 (5.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Automotive SPICE
1 4 (21.05%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) BitLocker
3 2 (10.53%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) SCCM
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Cisco
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) Apple
3 3 (15.79%) Aruba
3 3 (15.79%) F5
3 3 (15.79%) HP
3 3 (15.79%) Juniper
3 3 (15.79%) MobileIron
3 3 (15.79%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.26%) EMC