Firmware Jobs in the South East

Firmware
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 258 285
Rank change year-on-year +88 +27 +30
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 280 131 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.52% 0.97% 1.11%
As % of the System Software category 11.55% 5.84% 6.51%
Number of salaries quoted 172 101 99
10th Percentile £31,250 - £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £60,750 £55,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £45,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -17.27% -

All System Software Skills
South East

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 advertised in the South East with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,425 2,244 3,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.21% 16.55% 17.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,893 1,576 2,359
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

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
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the South East over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +78 170 £52,501 +27.34% 46
Buckinghamshire +36 97 £51,000 +56.92% 20
Hampshire -36 50 £45,000 +12.50% 18
Berkshire +46 49 £42,920 -4.62% 15
Surrey +7 42 £54,000 -6.09% 12
Oxfordshire +7 24 £59,500 +40.00% 11
West Sussex +20 5 £46,000 +9.52% 3
East Sussex - 5 £57,500 - 1
Kent - 4 £27,500 - 7
Middlesex - 2 £47,750 -
Sussex - 2 £40,000 -
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 8 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.79%) Kinematics
3 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.36%) Apache
4 1 (0.36%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (3.21%) Simulink
2 3 (1.07%) OrCAD
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 8 (2.86%) Azure
1 8 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
1 8 (2.86%) OneDrive
2 6 (2.14%) Power Platform
3 5 (1.79%) Power Automate
3 5 (1.79%) SaaS
4 3 (1.07%) AWS
5 2 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (0.71%) GitHub
6 1 (0.36%) Akamai
6 1 (0.36%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.36%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.36%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.14%) Wireless
2 8 (2.86%) Firewall
2 8 (2.86%) Unified Communications
3 7 (2.50%) LAN
3 7 (2.50%) NAS
3 7 (2.50%) SAN
4 6 (2.14%) 4G
4 6 (2.14%) RFID
5 5 (1.79%) Ethernet
5 5 (1.79%) Internet
5 5 (1.79%) OSPF
6 4 (1.43%) Bluetooth
7 3 (1.07%) GPRS
7 3 (1.07%) Modbus
8 2 (0.71%) 3G
8 2 (0.71%) MQTT
8 2 (0.71%) RS-232
8 2 (0.71%) RS-485
8 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.14%) Power BI
2 5 (1.79%) Big Data
3 2 (0.71%) MySQL
4 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (2.86%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (2.50%) Git
3 6 (2.14%) JIRA
4 5 (1.79%) Subversion
5 3 (1.07%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.71%) GCC
6 2 (0.71%) GDB
6 2 (0.71%) GitLab
6 2 (0.71%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.71%) TestRail
6 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.36%) Selenium
7 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 137 (48.93%) Electronics
2 103 (36.79%) Manufacturing
3 73 (26.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (15.71%) Social Skills
5 24 (8.57%) Marketing
6 16 (5.71%) Automotive
6 16 (5.71%) Finance
7 15 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.36%) Telecoms
8 13 (4.64%) Legal
9 11 (3.93%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.43%) Retail
12 3 (1.07%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.71%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.71%) Aviation
13 2 (0.71%) Police
14 1 (0.36%) Avionics
14 1 (0.36%) Games
14 1 (0.36%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 99 (35.36%) Electronics Engineer
2 78 (27.86%) Graduate
3 76 (27.14%) Junior
4 73 (26.07%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
5 70 (25.00%) Junior Electronics Engineer
6 61 (21.79%) Development Engineer
6 61 (21.79%) Graduate Development Engineer
7 57 (20.36%) Embedded Engineer
8 43 (15.36%) Software Engineer
9 29 (10.36%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 29 (10.36%) Systems Engineer
10 28 (10.00%) Senior
11 22 (7.86%) Firmware Engineer
12 20 (7.14%) Hardware Engineer
13 18 (6.43%) Design Engineer
14 16 (5.71%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
15 14 (5.00%) Lead
16 13 (4.64%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
16 13 (4.64%) Junior Hardware Engineer
16 13 (4.64%) Senior Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.14%) WPF
2 4 (1.43%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.43%) Middleware
3 2 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.71%) Gherkin
3 2 (0.71%) HTML
3 2 (0.71%) Qt
4 1 (0.36%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.36%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (0.36%) Flash
4 1 (0.36%) STL
4 1 (0.36%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.93%) Embedded Systems
2 23 (8.21%) Management Information System
3 22 (7.86%) Analogue Electronics
4 21 (7.50%) Data Centre
5 20 (7.14%) FPGA
6 17 (6.07%) Mobile App
7 16 (5.71%) IoT
8 13 (4.64%) Driving Licence
9 9 (3.21%) Replication
10 8 (2.86%) Device Driver
11 6 (2.14%) Verilog
12 5 (1.79%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.79%) GNSS
12 5 (1.79%) PMI
12 5 (1.79%) VHDL
13 4 (1.43%) Robotics
13 4 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (1.07%) NB-IoT
14 3 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
15 2 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.79%) Windows
2 24 (8.57%) Linux
3 22 (7.86%) Windows Server
4 18 (6.43%) Windows 10
5 12 (4.29%) Windows NT
5 12 (4.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 12 (4.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (4.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (2.14%) Windows 7
7 3 (1.07%) Embedded Linux
8 2 (0.71%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.36%) Debian
9 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (32.50%) Schematic Capture
2 73 (26.07%) Project Planning
3 61 (21.79%) Software Engineering
4 36 (12.86%) Customer Requirements
5 35 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (11.07%) Agile
7 26 (9.29%) Customer Service
8 25 (8.93%) SDLC
8 25 (8.93%) Validation
9 23 (8.21%) Design for Manufacturing
10 21 (7.50%) Collaborative Working
10 21 (7.50%) Software Testing
11 20 (7.14%) ITIL
12 19 (6.79%) Release Management
12 19 (6.79%) Service Management
13 18 (6.43%) Artificial Intelligence
14 16 (5.71%) Business Intelligence
14 16 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 15 (5.36%) Technical Leadership
16 14 (5.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 94 (33.57%) C
2 54 (19.29%) C++
3 36 (12.86%) Python
4 18 (6.43%) Embedded C
5 15 (5.36%) C#
6 7 (2.50%) SQL
7 6 (2.14%) Embedded C++
8 5 (1.79%) Java
8 5 (1.79%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.79%) XAML
9 4 (1.43%) Bash
9 4 (1.43%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.07%) Assembly Language
10 3 (1.07%) Perl
11 2 (0.71%) Lua
11 2 (0.71%) Rust
11 2 (0.71%) SystemVerilog
11 2 (0.71%) Tcl
12 1 (0.36%) Korn
12 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 153 (54.64%) Degree
2 43 (15.36%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.79%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.50%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.79%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.07%) CCNA
8 3 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.71%) MCSE
9 2 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.36%) CCNP
10 1 (0.36%) HND
10 1 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.79%) QA
2 5 (1.79%) SLA
3 4 (1.43%) GDPR
4 2 (0.71%) JTAG
5 1 (0.36%) IEC 61131
5 1 (0.36%) IEC 62304
5 1 (0.36%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 145 (51.79%) Embedded Firmware
2 27 (9.64%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.50%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.14%) vSphere
6 4 (1.43%) Docker
7 3 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.36%) NFS
8 1 (0.36%) pfSense
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (9.29%) SCCM
2 12 (4.29%) Sysprep
2 12 (4.29%) WSUS
3 7 (2.50%) NetBackup
3 7 (2.50%) SCOM
4 3 (1.07%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.07%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.71%) Ansible
5 2 (0.71%) Grafana
5 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 82 (29.29%) EMC
2 41 (14.64%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.29%) SAP
4 11 (3.93%) VMware
5 9 (3.21%) HP
6 8 (2.86%) Fortinet
6 8 (2.86%) Veeam
7 7 (2.50%) McAfee
8 5 (1.79%) BT
8 5 (1.79%) Mitel
9 4 (1.43%) Extreme Networks
9 4 (1.43%) Juniper
10 2 (0.71%) Aruba
10 2 (0.71%) Cisco
10 2 (0.71%) Facebook
10 2 (0.71%) Google
10 2 (0.71%) Splunk
11 1 (0.36%) Atmel
11 1 (0.36%) Citrix
11 1 (0.36%) IBM