Firmware Job Trends in the West Midlands

Firmware
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 171 147
Rank change year-on-year +18 -24 +107
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 20 25 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.38% 0.60% 1.08%
As % of the System Software category 9.71% 5.79% 7.24%
Number of salaries quoted 13 17 31
10th Percentile £31,950 £51,251 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £55,000 £56,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.32% +1.60% +13.64%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £66,500 £70,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -

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 206 432 566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.93% 10.43% 14.95%
Number of salaries quoted 143 241 508
10th Percentile £28,942 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £67,375 £65,000 £57,000
90th Percentile £79,758 £75,000 £69,125
England median annual salary £48,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.52% +4.55% -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firmware relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Firmware job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Firmware
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Firmware

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

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 January 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
Birmingham +30 10 £46,500 -17.33% 8
Worcestershire -11 6 £52,500 -17.32%
Warwickshire +18 1 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Staffordshire -9 1 £50,000 -2.44% 1
Dudley - 1 £80,000 -
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (25.00%) RS-232
2 5 (25.00%) RS-485
3 4 (20.00%) 3G
3 4 (20.00%) GPRS
3 4 (20.00%) GSM
3 4 (20.00%) Modbus
3 4 (20.00%) SSL
3 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (15.00%) BGP
4 3 (15.00%) DHCP
4 3 (15.00%) DNS
4 3 (15.00%) Firewall
4 3 (15.00%) IPsec
4 3 (15.00%) Network Security
4 3 (15.00%) OSPF
4 3 (15.00%) VLAN
4 3 (15.00%) VPN
4 3 (15.00%) WAN
4 3 (15.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Electronics
5 2 (10.00%) Law
6 1 (5.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Junior
1 5 (25.00%) Junior Support Technician
1 5 (25.00%) Junior Technical Support
1 5 (25.00%) Support Technician
1 5 (25.00%) Technical Support
2 4 (20.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Firmware Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Embedded C Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) C Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Desktop Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Embedded C Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Embedded Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (15.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.00%) IoT
2 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Linux
2 7 (35.00%) Windows
3 4 (20.00%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (20.00%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Customer Service
1 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (20.00%) Embedded Software Development
2 4 (20.00%) Secure Coding
2 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (15.00%) Agile
3 3 (15.00%) Change Control
3 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (15.00%) ITIL
3 3 (15.00%) SIEM
4 2 (10.00%) Change Management
4 2 (10.00%) Data Acquisition
4 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (10.00%) ITSM
4 2 (10.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.00%) Service Management
4 2 (10.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) C
2 4 (20.00%) C++
3 2 (10.00%) Embedded C++
4 1 (5.00%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (15.00%) CCNP
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) MISRA
2 1 (5.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) BitLocker
4 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Dell DRAC
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) VMware
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco
2 3 (15.00%) Dell
2 3 (15.00%) Meraki
2 3 (15.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (15.00%) SolarWinds
2 3 (15.00%) Zscaler
3 2 (10.00%) Apple
3 2 (10.00%) HP
3 2 (10.00%) McAfee
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) MobileIron
3 2 (10.00%) Remedy
4 1 (5.00%) EMC