Firmware Contracts in the South East

Firmware
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Firmware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firmware over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 184 233
Rank change year-on-year +56 +49 -21
Contract jobs citing Firmware 72 31 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.25% 0.55% 0.39%
As % of the System Software category 8.65% 3.89% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 18 22
10th Percentile - £158 £261
25th Percentile £205 £161 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £186 £450
Median % change year-on-year +148.32% -58.61% -3.23%
75th Percentile £575 £483 £540
90th Percentile - £527 £666
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 1
10th Percentile £50.88 £15.21 -
25th Percentile £51.06 £25.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £53.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £53.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% +7.50% -

All System Software Skills
South East

Firmware falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 832 797 1,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.46% 14.07% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 534 864
10th Percentile £205 £200 £173
25th Percentile £408 £350 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £663
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 44 58
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.50 £12.87
25th Percentile £17.80 £32.44 £14.00
Median hourly rate £54.88 £57.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +187.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.31 £39.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £80.75
England median hourly rate £22.40 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.20% +163.16% +2.43%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firmware in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +41 37 £575 +10.58% 40
Hampshire +10 29 £375 -21.05% 17
Berkshire +15 28 £575 +10.58% 13
Surrey +9 5 £375 +117.39% 11
Oxfordshire +5 5 - - 9
Buckinghamshire - 4 £425 - 18
Kent - 1 - - 9
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 16 (22.22%) Confluence
2 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.39%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
1 1 (1.39%) AWS
1 1 (1.39%) Azure
1 1 (1.39%) GCP
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (36.11%) Software-Defined Radio
2 16 (22.22%) SNMP
3 12 (16.67%) LAN
4 7 (9.72%) Wireless
5 5 (6.94%) Firewall
5 5 (6.94%) SAN
6 4 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (5.56%) iSCSI
6 4 (5.56%) NAS
6 4 (5.56%) SSL
6 4 (5.56%) TCP/IP
6 4 (5.56%) VLAN
6 4 (5.56%) VoIP
6 4 (5.56%) VPN
7 1 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 22 (30.56%) Git
2 20 (27.78%) JIRA
3 17 (23.61%) Eclipse
4 16 (22.22%) Bitbucket
4 16 (22.22%) GoogleTest
4 16 (22.22%) Robot Framework
5 4 (5.56%) Subversion
6 1 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
General
1 30 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 12 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (5.56%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (38.89%) Software Engineer
2 20 (27.78%) Embedded Engineer
2 20 (27.78%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 15 (20.83%) Build Engineer
3 15 (20.83%) C++ Software Engineer
3 15 (20.83%) Windows Build Engineer
3 15 (20.83%) Windows Engineer
4 12 (16.67%) Hardware Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Java Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Analyst
6 5 (6.94%) Break Fix Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Firmware Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Security Analyst
9 2 (2.78%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) Test Analyst
9 2 (2.78%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (23.61%) CSS
1 17 (23.61%) HTML
2 1 (1.39%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 7 (9.72%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.56%) Device Driver
4 3 (4.17%) VHDL
5 2 (2.78%) FMCG
5 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.39%) FPGA
6 1 (1.39%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 35 (48.61%) Windows
2 27 (37.50%) Windows 10
3 22 (30.56%) Linux
4 15 (20.83%) Windows NT
4 15 (20.83%) Windows Server
4 15 (20.83%) Windows Server 2012
4 15 (20.83%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (20.83%) Windows Server 2019
5 12 (16.67%) Windows 7
6 4 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (41.67%) Software Engineering
2 27 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 27 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 27 (37.50%) ITIL
3 18 (25.00%) SysML
3 18 (25.00%) UML
4 16 (22.22%) Agile
4 16 (22.22%) Scrum
4 16 (22.22%) Validation
5 15 (20.83%) Deployment Automation
5 15 (20.83%) Release Management
5 15 (20.83%) Service Management
5 15 (20.83%) Software Testing
5 15 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
6 14 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
7 12 (16.67%) Service Delivery
7 12 (16.67%) Software Deployment
7 12 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
8 9 (12.50%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.94%) C++
2 17 (23.61%) JavaScript
3 10 (13.89%) C
4 8 (11.11%) Java
5 6 (8.33%) MATLAB
6 4 (5.56%) Assembly Language
6 4 (5.56%) Embedded C
6 4 (5.56%) Python
6 4 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.17%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 33 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 28 (38.89%) DV Cleared
3 22 (30.56%) Degree
4 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.56%) CCNA
5 4 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.56%) Master's Degree
5 4 (5.56%) MCSE
5 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (5.56%) PhD
5 4 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.39%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.39%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.83%) QA
2 4 (5.56%) JTAG
3 2 (2.78%) SLA
4 1 (1.39%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.94%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (37.50%) SCCM
2 15 (20.83%) Sysprep
2 15 (20.83%) WSUS
3 1 (1.39%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 32 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 17 (23.61%) Google
3 16 (22.22%) Atlassian
4 12 (16.67%) HP
5 4 (5.56%) VMware
6 1 (1.39%) Brocade
6 1 (1.39%) EMC
6 1 (1.39%) IBM
6 1 (1.39%) Isilon
6 1 (1.39%) NetApp
6 1 (1.39%) Veritas
6 1 (1.39%) Xilinx