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 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 173 252
Rank change year-on-year -4 +79 +3
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 21 69 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.47% 0.96% 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 5.97% 8.12% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 19 46 12
10th Percentile £39,000 £50,000 £27,700
25th Percentile £44,699 £52,500 £42,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,251 £61,500 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +35.16% -13.33%
75th Percentile £69,375 £71,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £70,250 £78,750 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £45,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +15.38% -13.33%

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 352 850 811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.91% 11.82% 12.01%
Number of salaries quoted 260 714 548
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £62,813
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £76,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 25 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 25 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 +31 8 £47,500 - 5
Staffordshire +27 4 £51,251 +81.42% 3
Warwickshire -27 4 £65,000 - 4
Herefordshire +5 2 - -
Coventry -2 1 £67,500 -15.63% 2
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 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (4.76%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 12 (57.14%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (28.57%) Firewall
3 5 (23.81%) SD-WAN
4 4 (19.05%) Network Security
4 4 (19.05%) Wireless
5 3 (14.29%) Bluetooth
5 3 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (14.29%) GSM
5 3 (14.29%) IPsec
5 3 (14.29%) J1939
5 3 (14.29%) VPN
6 2 (9.52%) Junos
7 1 (4.76%) BGP
7 1 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (4.76%) OpenScape
7 1 (4.76%) OSPF
7 1 (4.76%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Appium
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) TestRail
General
1 4 (19.05%) Automotive
1 4 (19.05%) Police
2 2 (9.52%) Electronics
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Advertising
3 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Law
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Military
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.76%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Lead
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Support Team Leader
3 3 (14.29%) Team Leader
3 3 (14.29%) Telematics Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Communications Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Desktop Support
4 1 (4.76%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Firmware Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) Laravel
2 1 (4.76%) RESTful
2 1 (4.76%) SAML
2 1 (4.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) iPad
1 3 (14.29%) iPhone
1 3 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) ASIC
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.76%) FPGA
2 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.76%) Smart Energy
2 1 (4.76%) VHDL
2 1 (4.76%) VLSI
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.76%) Android
3 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Change Management
2 6 (28.57%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) Incident Management
2 6 (28.57%) ITIL
2 6 (28.57%) Mobile Device Management
2 6 (28.57%) Problem Management
3 5 (23.81%) Asset Management
3 5 (23.81%) Major Incident Management
4 4 (19.05%) Line Management
4 4 (19.05%) Release Management
4 4 (19.05%) Scrum
4 4 (19.05%) Service Delivery
4 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Availability Management
5 3 (14.29%) Document Management
5 3 (14.29%) ITSM
5 3 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 3 (14.29%) Multithreading
5 3 (14.29%) Network Design
5 3 (14.29%) Telematics
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) C
2 1 (4.76%) Assembly Language
2 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.76%) MATLAB
2 1 (4.76%) PHP
2 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (19.05%) CCNA
4 3 (14.29%) CCNP
5 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
5 1 (4.76%) PMP
5 1 (4.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Automotive SPICE
1 3 (14.29%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (4.76%) DO-254
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) BitLocker
2 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (9.52%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) SCCM
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) Apple
2 6 (28.57%) HP
2 6 (28.57%) MobileIron
3 5 (23.81%) Cisco
4 3 (14.29%) Aruba
4 3 (14.29%) F5
4 3 (14.29%) Juniper
4 3 (14.29%) McAfee
4 3 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 3 (14.29%) Remedy
5 1 (4.76%) Xilinx