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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 207 214
Rank change year-on-year +36 +7 +68
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 24 59 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.58% 0.73% 0.45%
As % of the System Software category 5.58% 7.61% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 23 44 24
10th Percentile £33,000 £30,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £51,875 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,147 £60,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +37.14% -18.22%
75th Percentile £55,719 £71,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,000 £76,250 £62,075
England median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +20.00% -18.18%

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 430 775 664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.34% 9.60% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 331 612 479
10th Percentile £26,500 £24,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £44,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +1.69% -6.84%
75th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £62,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% -10.00% -

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +49 14 £39,000 - 5
Staffordshire +22 3 £53,688 +91.74% 1
Dudley - 2 £80,000 - 2
Warwickshire +15 1 £53,500 -20.74% 3
Herefordshire +5 1 £75,000 +21.95%
Solihull - 1 £75,000 -
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 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (54.17%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (4.17%) BGP
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (4.17%) IPsec
3 1 (4.17%) Network Security
3 1 (4.17%) OpenScape
3 1 (4.17%) OSPF
3 1 (4.17%) RFID
3 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.17%) VPN
3 1 (4.17%) Wireless
3 1 (4.17%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Appium
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
1 1 (4.17%) Postman
1 1 (4.17%) TestRail
General
1 3 (12.50%) Law
2 2 (8.33%) Police
3 1 (4.17%) Advertising
3 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.17%) Automotive
3 1 (4.17%) Back Office
3 1 (4.17%) Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Electronics
3 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Military
3 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.17%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Analyst
2 9 (37.50%) Support Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 3 (12.50%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Desktop Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Desktop Support
3 3 (12.50%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Lead
3 3 (12.50%) Support Team Leader
3 3 (12.50%) Team Leader
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Firmware Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) HTML
2 1 (4.17%) Laravel
2 1 (4.17%) RESTful
2 1 (4.17%) Vue
2 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) iPad
1 3 (12.50%) iPhone
2 2 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) ASIC
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.17%) FPGA
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Smart Energy
3 1 (4.17%) VHDL
3 1 (4.17%) VLSI
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.17%) Android
3 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Change Management
2 12 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 12 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 12 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 9 (37.50%) Asset Management
3 9 (37.50%) ITSM
3 9 (37.50%) Major Incident Management
4 6 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 6 (25.00%) Line Management
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (12.50%) Document Management
5 3 (12.50%) Service Management
6 2 (8.33%) ITIL
6 2 (8.33%) Release Management
6 2 (8.33%) Security Operations
6 2 (8.33%) Service Delivery
6 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
6 2 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (4.17%) Case Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) Assembly Language
2 1 (4.17%) C
2 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.17%) MATLAB
2 1 (4.17%) PHP
2 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) A+ Certification
2 1 (4.17%) CCNP
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) HNC
2 1 (4.17%) HND
2 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Def Stans
2 1 (4.17%) DO-254
2 1 (4.17%) HAZOP
2 1 (4.17%) IEC 61508
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) BitLocker
2 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.33%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) Functional Safety
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 12 (50.00%) Apple
2 12 (50.00%) HP
2 12 (50.00%) MobileIron
3 9 (37.50%) McAfee
3 9 (37.50%) Remedy
4 1 (4.17%) Aruba
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco
4 1 (4.17%) F5
4 1 (4.17%) Juniper
4 1 (4.17%) VMware
4 1 (4.17%) Xilinx