Firmware Contracts in Scotland

Firmware
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 95 162 168
Rank change year-on-year +67 +6 0
Contract jobs citing Firmware 20 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.93% 0.075% 0.23%
As % of the System Software category 7.02% 0.48% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 8
10th Percentile £344 £455 £396
25th Percentile £372 £463 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +28.95% -7.32% +52.99%
75th Percentile £831 £488 £538
90th Percentile £888 £495 -
UK median daily rate £440 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -8.57% -3.75% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £50.57 - -
25th Percentile £60.25 - -
Median hourly rate £60.50 - -
75th Percentile £60.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £53.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year +12.56% +7.50% -

All System Software Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 285 414 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.30% 15.49% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 288 317
10th Percentile £193 £209 £160
25th Percentile £296 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +4.65%
75th Percentile £494 £538 £538
90th Percentile £613 £613 £610
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 12
10th Percentile £18.19 £24.34 £17.50
25th Percentile £42.22 £29.66 £19.38
Median hourly rate £60.50 £40.68 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.72% -8.58% -39.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.80 £48.75
90th Percentile - £55.57 £50.57
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% +172.80% -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Scotland

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in Scotland

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in Scotland

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in Scotland

Firmware
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Hourly rate histogram for Firmware in Scotland

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh - 12 £850 - 9
Glasgow +19 3 £613 +22.50% 6
South Lanarkshire - 3 - - 1
Firmware
UK

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (5.00%) DHCP
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) CMake
2 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 4 (20.00%) Electronics
1 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) French Language
3 1 (5.00%) German Language
3 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Italian Language
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Technical Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Field Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Firmware Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Network Field Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Flash
1 1 (5.00%) JSON
1 1 (5.00%) YAML
1 1 (5.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) IoT
2 4 (20.00%) Device Driver
2 4 (20.00%) PCIe
2 4 (20.00%) Verilog
2 4 (20.00%) VHDL
3 3 (15.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (10.00%) Operational Technology
5 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (5.00%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (20.00%) VxWorks
4 2 (10.00%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) Code Optimisation
4 4 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
4 4 (20.00%) Defect Tracking
4 4 (20.00%) Device Driver Development
4 4 (20.00%) Line Management
4 4 (20.00%) Memory Management
4 4 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 4 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 4 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (20.00%) Requirements Management
4 4 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (15.00%) Microservices
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) C
1 7 (35.00%) Embedded C
2 2 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (5.00%) Perl
3 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) MISRA
1 4 (20.00%) MISRA C
2 2 (10.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Atlassian
2 4 (20.00%) Intel
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Renesas