Firmware Contracts in the Midlands

Firmware
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 135 148 190
Rank change year-on-year +13 +42 -52
Contract jobs citing Firmware 6 10 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.20% 0.31% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 1.89% 2.17% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £249 £285 £346
25th Percentile £263 £328 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -2.70% +45.10%
75th Percentile £550 £515 £488
90th Percentile - £524 -
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £53.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% +7.50% -

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 317 461 648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.75% 14.32% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 318 453
10th Percentile £160 £158 £130
25th Percentile £250 £231 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £441 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% +17.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £500
90th Percentile £660 £700 £580
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 23 38
10th Percentile £14.77 £12.81 £12.61
25th Percentile £15.74 £15.25 £13.56
Median hourly rate £17.98 £25.00 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.10% +44.93% +27.78%
75th Percentile £22.80 £34.50 £20.45
90th Percentile £37.83 £65.00 £23.75
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the Midlands

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the Midlands

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in the Midlands

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the Midlands

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Midlands 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
East Midlands +5 4 £275 -22.81% 29
West Midlands +16 2 £550 +3.77% 18
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) FPGA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Support
3 1 (16.67%) Network Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (16.67%) FPGA
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Change Control
1 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Cryptography
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (16.67%) FPGA Design
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security
2 1 (16.67%) Key Management
2 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Signal Processing
2 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) C++
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Broadcom
1 2 (33.33%) Brocade
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Aruba
2 1 (16.67%) Thales
2 1 (16.67%) Xilinx