Firmware
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 555 610
Rank change year-on-year +235 +55 -77
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 926 480 830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 0.48% 0.52%
As % of the System Software category 7.73% 3.12% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 689 353 321
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £31,275
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,250 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 11,980 15,379 29,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.99% 15.51% 18.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,464 10,075 15,564
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,860 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the UK

Firmware
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Firmware in the UK

Firmware
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Firmware in the UK

Firmware
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
UK excluding London +138 856 £52,500 +5.00% 323
England +249 778 £52,500 +10.53% 342
Work from Home +143 306 £52,500 -12.50% 140
South East +106 269 £50,000 +11.11% 118
Midlands +76 122 £52,500 +23.53% 50
East of England +53 113 £56,500 -13.08% 76
North of England +68 112 £52,500 +47.38% 24
South West +20 100 £55,000 -18.52% 41
Scotland -16 99 £52,500 -3.67% 22
West Midlands +59 70 £60,750 +35.00% 19
North West +8 65 £55,000 +4.76% 19
London +136 62 £52,500 +23.53% 42
East Midlands +32 52 £50,000 +81.82% 31
Yorkshire +88 37 £42,500 +31.99% 5
Wales +11 24 £60,000 +9.09% 11
Northern Ireland +34 17 £28,000 -13.85% 1
North East - 10 £55,000 -

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.76%) Confluence
4 5 (0.54%) Kinematics
5 3 (0.32%) IIS
6 2 (0.22%) Apache
6 2 (0.22%) nginx
7 1 (0.11%) CMS
7 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 24 (2.59%) Simulink
2 19 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.08%) OrCAD
4 6 (0.65%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (0.43%) Windchill
6 3 (0.32%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) LabWindows
1 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 35 (3.78%) Azure
2 22 (2.38%) AWS
3 20 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (1.62%) GitHub
6 8 (0.86%) OneDrive
6 8 (0.86%) Power Platform
7 7 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (0.65%) AWS IoT
8 6 (0.65%) SaaS
9 5 (0.54%) Entra ID
9 5 (0.54%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.43%) IaaS
11 2 (0.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.22%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.22%) Azure Storage
11 2 (0.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.22%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 123 (13.28%) Wireless
2 47 (5.08%) Ethernet
3 38 (4.10%) TCP/IP
4 32 (3.46%) Firewall
5 30 (3.24%) Bluetooth
6 26 (2.81%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (2.70%) MQTT
8 23 (2.48%) HTTP
8 23 (2.48%) LAN
8 23 (2.48%) WAN
9 21 (2.27%) 5G
10 20 (2.16%) DNS
11 18 (1.94%) RS-232
12 17 (1.84%) Internet
13 16 (1.73%) OSPF
13 16 (1.73%) SD-WAN
14 13 (1.40%) Wireshark
15 12 (1.30%) BGP
15 12 (1.30%) LTE
15 12 (1.30%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.86%) Power BI
2 6 (0.65%) Relational Database
3 5 (0.54%) Big Data
4 4 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.32%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.22%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.11%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.11%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.11%) MySQL
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 53 (5.72%) Git
2 46 (4.97%) JIRA
3 28 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.27%) Rational DOORS
5 16 (1.73%) Subversion
6 14 (1.51%) LabVIEW
7 9 (0.97%) Rational Team Concert
8 6 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (0.65%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.54%) Selenium
10 4 (0.43%) GitLab
10 4 (0.43%) Rational Rhapsody
11 3 (0.32%) GCC
11 3 (0.32%) GDB
11 3 (0.32%) Postman
12 2 (0.22%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.22%) PetaLinux
12 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.11%) Bugzilla
13 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
General
1 371 (40.06%) Electronics
2 221 (23.87%) Social Skills
3 192 (20.73%) Manufacturing
4 139 (15.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 83 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (6.05%) Finance
7 52 (5.62%) Automotive
8 50 (5.40%) Marketing
9 38 (4.10%) Telecoms
10 37 (4.00%) Public Sector
11 32 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (3.46%) Retail
12 28 (3.02%) Legal
13 17 (1.84%) Aerospace
14 15 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.30%) Military
16 11 (1.19%) Law
17 10 (1.08%) Police
18 7 (0.76%) Aviation
18 7 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 282 (30.45%) Embedded Engineer
2 182 (19.65%) Software Engineer
3 181 (19.55%) Senior
4 144 (15.55%) Electronics Engineer
5 126 (13.61%) Firmware Engineer
6 121 (13.07%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 121 (13.07%) Graduate
7 106 (11.45%) Junior
8 87 (9.40%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
9 84 (9.07%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
10 79 (8.53%) Junior Electronics Engineer
11 78 (8.42%) Development Engineer
12 77 (8.32%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 71 (7.67%) Graduate Development Engineer
14 69 (7.45%) Systems Engineer
15 54 (5.83%) Lead
16 53 (5.72%) Developer
17 49 (5.29%) Senior Software Engineer
18 45 (4.86%) Hardware Engineer
19 38 (4.10%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.84%) HTML
2 16 (1.73%) Yocto
3 15 (1.62%) CSS
4 14 (1.51%) 802.1X
4 14 (1.51%) Flask
5 13 (1.40%) .NET
5 13 (1.40%) Node.js
5 13 (1.40%) Qt
6 12 (1.30%) Middleware
7 10 (1.08%) React
8 8 (0.86%) Django
9 7 (0.76%) Web Services
10 5 (0.54%) FFmpeg
10 5 (0.54%) Flash
10 5 (0.54%) GStreamer
10 5 (0.54%) OpenCV
10 5 (0.54%) REST
10 5 (0.54%) WPF
11 4 (0.43%) ARM Templates
12 3 (0.32%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 99 (10.69%) FPGA
2 76 (8.21%) Embedded Systems
3 58 (6.26%) Data Centre
4 57 (6.16%) IoT
5 52 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
6 40 (4.32%) Driving Licence
7 37 (4.00%) Algorithms
8 32 (3.46%) Analogue Electronics
9 31 (3.35%) VHDL
10 26 (2.81%) Management Information System
11 21 (2.27%) GNSS
11 21 (2.27%) Replication
12 20 (2.16%) EPoS
13 19 (2.05%) Mobile App
14 18 (1.94%) Device Driver
15 13 (1.40%) PCIe
15 13 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
16 12 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
17 11 (1.19%) Raspberry Pi
18 10 (1.08%) Arduino
Operating Systems
1 157 (16.95%) Linux
2 122 (13.17%) Windows
3 49 (5.29%) Embedded Linux
4 32 (3.46%) Windows Server
5 24 (2.59%) Windows 10
6 17 (1.84%) Unix
6 17 (1.84%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (1.73%) Windows Server 2012
8 15 (1.62%) FreeRTOS
9 11 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (1.19%) Windows NT
10 10 (1.08%) Android
11 9 (0.97%) Windows 7
12 8 (0.86%) AIX
12 8 (0.86%) Solaris
13 5 (0.54%) VxWorks
14 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
14 2 (0.22%) Debian
14 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (32.51%) Software Engineering
2 142 (15.33%) Computer Science
3 134 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (12.10%) Schematic Capture
5 89 (9.61%) Agile
6 83 (8.96%) Project Planning
7 77 (8.32%) Software Testing
8 64 (6.91%) ITIL
9 59 (6.37%) Customer Service
10 57 (6.16%) SDLC
11 55 (5.94%) Mentoring
12 53 (5.72%) Mathematics
13 50 (5.40%) Customer Requirements
13 50 (5.40%) Validation
14 47 (5.08%) Physics
15 44 (4.75%) Artificial Intelligence
16 43 (4.64%) Project Management
16 43 (4.64%) Test Automation
17 42 (4.54%) Signal Processing
18 41 (4.43%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 359 (38.77%) C
2 177 (19.11%) C++
3 114 (12.31%) Python
4 110 (11.88%) Embedded C
5 53 (5.72%) C#
6 36 (3.89%) SQL
7 27 (2.92%) MATLAB
8 26 (2.81%) Java
9 22 (2.38%) Embedded C++
10 21 (2.27%) Bash
11 18 (1.94%) Perl
12 15 (1.62%) JavaScript
13 10 (1.08%) RPG
13 10 (1.08%) Tcl
14 8 (0.86%) VB
15 7 (0.76%) Assembly Language
15 7 (0.76%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.54%) XAML
17 4 (0.43%) PowerShell
18 3 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 356 (38.44%) Degree
2 102 (11.02%) Security Cleared
3 58 (6.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 34 (3.67%) DV Cleared
5 31 (3.35%) SC Cleared
6 18 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.62%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.08%) CCNA
9 10 (1.08%) CCNP
10 9 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.86%) HND
12 7 (0.76%) CCDP
12 7 (0.76%) CCIE
12 7 (0.76%) CCIE Routing and Switching
12 7 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.65%) MCSE
14 5 (0.54%) Network+ Certification
14 5 (0.54%) PhD
14 5 (0.54%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (4.43%) QA
2 30 (3.24%) SLA
3 19 (2.05%) MISRA
4 15 (1.62%) JTAG
5 11 (1.19%) ISO 13485
5 11 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.19%) MISRA C
6 10 (1.08%) GDPR
7 8 (0.86%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 6 (0.65%) PMO
9 5 (0.54%) ISO 26262
10 4 (0.43%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.32%) Automotive SPICE
11 3 (0.32%) AUTOSAR
11 3 (0.32%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.32%) ECSS
11 3 (0.32%) IEC 62304
12 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 1 (0.11%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 376 (40.60%) Embedded Firmware
2 37 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 37 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (2.16%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (1.62%) Hyper-V
5 13 (1.40%) Docker
6 7 (0.76%) vSphere
7 5 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.22%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (3.13%) SCCM
2 22 (2.38%) SCOM
3 19 (2.05%) Ansible
4 15 (1.62%) WSUS
5 11 (1.19%) Kubernetes
5 11 (1.19%) Sysprep
6 8 (0.86%) vCenter Server
7 7 (0.76%) Functional Safety
7 7 (0.76%) NetBackup
8 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.43%) Podman
9 4 (0.43%) Terraform
10 3 (0.32%) Grafana
10 3 (0.32%) SCOrch
10 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.22%) vRealize
11 2 (0.22%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 120 (12.96%) EMC
2 59 (6.37%) Microsoft
3 46 (4.97%) VMware
4 37 (4.00%) IBM
5 35 (3.78%) SAP
6 34 (3.67%) HP
7 32 (3.46%) NetApp
8 31 (3.35%) Dell
9 23 (2.48%) Veeam
10 21 (2.27%) Cisco
11 20 (2.16%) Xilinx
12 18 (1.94%) Red Hat
13 14 (1.51%) Fortinet
14 10 (1.08%) Citrix
15 9 (0.97%) Altera
15 9 (0.97%) Intel
15 9 (0.97%) Oracle
16 8 (0.86%) Green Hills
16 8 (0.86%) Motorola
16 8 (0.86%) SolarWinds