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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 552 588
Rank change year-on-year +238 +36 -40
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 919 485 826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 0.48% 0.53%
As % of the System Software category 7.63% 3.13% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 682 352 333
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% -13.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,625 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,250 £77,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% +7.00%

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 12,052 15,490 28,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.15% 15.33% 18.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,552 10,272 15,625
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%
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 10 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 10 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 +139 848 £52,500 +5.00% 298
England +244 770 £52,501 +14.13% 306
Work from Home +142 305 £52,500 -12.50% 128
South East +105 268 £51,000 +13.33% 106
Midlands +68 119 £53,750 +22.86% 45
East of England +61 112 £56,500 -13.08% 69
North of England +66 111 £52,500 +61.54% 24
Scotland -9 100 £52,500 -0.94% 26
South West +23 97 £55,000 -8.33% 38
West Midlands +47 69 £61,500 +35.16% 18
London +144 63 £52,500 +27.27% 33
North West +5 63 £55,000 +4.76% 17
East Midlands +21 50 £50,000 +81.82% 27
Yorkshire +94 38 £42,500 +31.99% 6
Wales +11 24 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Northern Ireland +35 17 £28,000 -13.85%
North East - 10 £55,000 - 1

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 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.65%) Confluence
4 5 (0.54%) Kinematics
5 3 (0.33%) IIS
6 2 (0.22%) Apache
6 2 (0.22%) nginx
7 1 (0.11%) CMS
7 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 23 (2.50%) Simulink
2 19 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.09%) OrCAD
4 6 (0.65%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (0.44%) Windchill
6 3 (0.33%) 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 34 (3.70%) Azure
2 21 (2.29%) AWS
3 20 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (1.63%) GitHub
6 8 (0.87%) OneDrive
6 8 (0.87%) Power Platform
7 7 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (0.65%) AWS IoT
8 6 (0.65%) SaaS
9 5 (0.54%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.44%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.44%) 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
1 126 (13.71%) Wireless
2 48 (5.22%) Ethernet
3 38 (4.13%) TCP/IP
4 31 (3.37%) Bluetooth
5 30 (3.26%) Firewall
6 26 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (2.72%) MQTT
8 23 (2.50%) HTTP
8 23 (2.50%) LAN
8 23 (2.50%) WAN
9 21 (2.29%) 5G
10 20 (2.18%) DNS
11 18 (1.96%) RS-232
12 17 (1.85%) Internet
13 16 (1.74%) OSPF
13 16 (1.74%) SD-WAN
14 13 (1.41%) Wireshark
15 12 (1.31%) BGP
15 12 (1.31%) LTE
15 12 (1.31%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.87%) Power BI
2 6 (0.65%) Relational Database
3 5 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (0.54%) Big Data
4 3 (0.33%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.22%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.11%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.11%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.11%) MySQL
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 54 (5.88%) Git
2 44 (4.79%) JIRA
3 28 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 20 (2.18%) Rational DOORS
5 16 (1.74%) Subversion
6 13 (1.41%) LabVIEW
7 9 (0.98%) Rational Team Concert
8 6 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (0.65%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.54%) Selenium
10 4 (0.44%) Rational Rhapsody
11 3 (0.33%) GCC
11 3 (0.33%) GDB
11 3 (0.33%) GitLab
12 2 (0.22%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.22%) PetaLinux
12 2 (0.22%) Postman
12 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.11%) Bugzilla
13 1 (0.11%) Mercurial
General
1 367 (39.93%) Electronics
2 217 (23.61%) Social Skills
3 190 (20.67%) Manufacturing
4 141 (15.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 80 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (6.31%) Finance
7 52 (5.66%) Automotive
8 48 (5.22%) Marketing
9 39 (4.24%) Telecoms
10 37 (4.03%) Public Sector
11 29 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (3.05%) Legal
12 28 (3.05%) Retail
13 17 (1.85%) Aerospace
14 15 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.31%) Military
16 11 (1.20%) Law
17 10 (1.09%) Police
18 7 (0.76%) Aviation
18 7 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 281 (30.58%) Embedded Engineer
2 183 (19.91%) Software Engineer
3 180 (19.59%) Senior
4 147 (16.00%) Electronics Engineer
5 126 (13.71%) Firmware Engineer
6 122 (13.28%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 120 (13.06%) Graduate
8 105 (11.43%) Junior
9 87 (9.47%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
10 84 (9.14%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
11 79 (8.60%) Junior Electronics Engineer
12 78 (8.49%) Development Engineer
12 78 (8.49%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 71 (7.73%) Graduate Development Engineer
14 69 (7.51%) Systems Engineer
15 55 (5.98%) Lead
16 54 (5.88%) Developer
17 49 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
18 44 (4.79%) Hardware Engineer
19 37 (4.03%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.85%) HTML
2 16 (1.74%) Yocto
3 15 (1.63%) CSS
4 14 (1.52%) 802.1X
4 14 (1.52%) Flask
5 13 (1.41%) .NET
5 13 (1.41%) Node.js
5 13 (1.41%) Qt
6 12 (1.31%) Middleware
7 10 (1.09%) React
8 8 (0.87%) 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 (0.44%) ARM Templates
12 3 (0.33%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 99 (10.77%) FPGA
2 76 (8.27%) Embedded Systems
3 60 (6.53%) IoT
4 57 (6.20%) Data Centre
5 48 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
6 37 (4.03%) Algorithms
6 37 (4.03%) Driving Licence
7 30 (3.26%) VHDL
8 29 (3.16%) Analogue Electronics
9 23 (2.50%) Management Information System
10 21 (2.29%) GNSS
10 21 (2.29%) Replication
11 18 (1.96%) Device Driver
11 18 (1.96%) Mobile App
12 17 (1.85%) EPoS
13 13 (1.41%) PCIe
13 13 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
14 12 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (1.20%) Raspberry Pi
16 10 (1.09%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 156 (16.97%) Linux
2 119 (12.95%) Windows
3 48 (5.22%) Embedded Linux
4 33 (3.59%) Windows Server
5 25 (2.72%) Windows 10
6 19 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (2.07%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
8 17 (1.85%) Unix
9 15 (1.63%) FreeRTOS
10 12 (1.31%) Windows NT
11 11 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 10 (1.09%) Android
13 9 (0.98%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.87%) AIX
14 8 (0.87%) Solaris
15 4 (0.44%) VxWorks
16 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.22%) Debian
16 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (32.86%) Software Engineering
2 141 (15.34%) Computer Science
3 131 (14.25%) Problem-Solving
4 109 (11.86%) Schematic Capture
5 85 (9.25%) Agile
6 83 (9.03%) Project Planning
7 75 (8.16%) Software Testing
8 62 (6.75%) ITIL
9 57 (6.20%) Customer Service
10 56 (6.09%) SDLC
11 55 (5.98%) Mathematics
12 54 (5.88%) Mentoring
13 50 (5.44%) Validation
14 49 (5.33%) Physics
15 47 (5.11%) Customer Requirements
16 42 (4.57%) Business Intelligence
16 42 (4.57%) Test Automation
17 41 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence
17 41 (4.46%) Signal Processing
18 40 (4.35%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 358 (38.96%) C
2 173 (18.82%) C++
3 113 (12.30%) Python
4 112 (12.19%) Embedded C
5 53 (5.77%) C#
6 35 (3.81%) SQL
7 26 (2.83%) Java
8 25 (2.72%) MATLAB
9 22 (2.39%) Embedded C++
10 21 (2.29%) Bash
11 18 (1.96%) Perl
12 15 (1.63%) JavaScript
13 10 (1.09%) RPG
13 10 (1.09%) Tcl
14 8 (0.87%) VB
15 7 (0.76%) Assembly Language
15 7 (0.76%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.54%) XAML
17 4 (0.44%) PowerShell
18 3 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 352 (38.30%) Degree
2 102 (11.10%) Security Cleared
3 55 (5.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 35 (3.81%) DV Cleared
5 31 (3.37%) SC Cleared
6 16 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 8 (0.87%) CCNA
8 8 (0.87%) CCNP
8 8 (0.87%) HND
8 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.76%) CCDP
9 7 (0.76%) CCIE
9 7 (0.76%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 7 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (0.54%) MCSE
10 5 (0.54%) PhD
10 5 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.44%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (4.35%) QA
2 28 (3.05%) SLA
3 18 (1.96%) MISRA
4 15 (1.63%) JTAG
5 11 (1.20%) ISO 13485
5 11 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.09%) GDPR
6 10 (1.09%) MISRA C
7 8 (0.87%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 6 (0.65%) PMO
9 5 (0.54%) ISO 26262
10 4 (0.44%) Automotive SPICE
10 4 (0.44%) AUTOSAR
10 4 (0.44%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.33%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.33%) ECSS
11 3 (0.33%) IEC 62304
12 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 374 (40.70%) Embedded Firmware
2 38 (4.13%) Active Directory
2 38 (4.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (1.74%) Hyper-V
6 13 (1.41%) Docker
7 7 (0.76%) vSphere
8 5 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.22%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (3.16%) SCCM
2 23 (2.50%) SCOM
3 19 (2.07%) Ansible
4 16 (1.74%) WSUS
5 12 (1.31%) Sysprep
6 11 (1.20%) Kubernetes
7 8 (0.87%) vCenter Server
8 7 (0.76%) Functional Safety
8 7 (0.76%) NetBackup
9 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.44%) Podman
10 4 (0.44%) Terraform
11 3 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (0.33%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.33%) Grafana
11 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 3 (0.33%) SCOrch
11 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.22%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 122 (13.28%) EMC
2 60 (6.53%) Microsoft
3 47 (5.11%) VMware
4 36 (3.92%) SAP
5 34 (3.70%) IBM
6 31 (3.37%) HP
7 29 (3.16%) NetApp
8 28 (3.05%) Dell
9 24 (2.61%) Veeam
10 21 (2.29%) Cisco
11 20 (2.18%) Xilinx
12 18 (1.96%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.41%) Fortinet
14 11 (1.20%) Citrix
15 9 (0.98%) Altera
15 9 (0.98%) Intel
15 9 (0.98%) Oracle
16 8 (0.87%) Green Hills
16 8 (0.87%) Motorola
17 7 (0.76%) McAfee