Firmware Contracts in London

Firmware
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Firmware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Firmware over the 6 months to 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 458 548
Rank change year-on-year +126 +90 -81
Contract jobs citing Firmware 68 30 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.39% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 3.73% 1.02% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 15 39
10th Percentile £200 £443 £330
25th Percentile £272 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £520 £523
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% -0.48% +41.22%
75th Percentile £469 £534 £594
90th Percentile £664 £563 £629
England median daily rate £400 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile - £44.38 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £45.31 -
Median hourly rate £22.59 £48.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -53.66% - -
75th Percentile £24.18 £50.94 -
90th Percentile £25.00 £51.13 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% +1.01%

All System Software Skills
London

Firmware is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,823 2,932 4,926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.33% 11.57% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 2,149 3,713
10th Percentile £250 £245 £305
25th Percentile £380 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £744
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 33 31
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.40 £14.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.00 £18.11
Median hourly rate £22.50 £60.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.50% +118.18% -45.00%
75th Percentile £25.00 £69.50 £46.62
90th Percentile £48.89 £82.40 £63.00
England median hourly rate £22.15 £52.13 £18.60
% change year-on-year -57.51% +180.27% -2.11%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in London

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in London

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in London

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in London

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Central London +40 3 £375 -25.45% 1
West London +25 3 £650 - 3
East London -5 2 £380 -20.00% 1
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 12 (17.65%) OpenStack
2 4 (5.88%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (16.18%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.71%) Azure
2 6 (8.82%) AWS
2 6 (8.82%) GCP
3 5 (7.35%) OpenShift
4 4 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon Alexa
5 1 (1.47%) Azure App Service
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Storage
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.47%) Firebase
5 1 (1.47%) GitHub
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.65%) Firewall
1 12 (17.65%) Wireless
2 10 (14.71%) VPN
3 9 (13.24%) MPLS
4 8 (11.76%) WAN
5 6 (8.82%) BGP
5 6 (8.82%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (8.82%) Internet
5 6 (8.82%) IPsec
5 6 (8.82%) LAN
5 6 (8.82%) OSPF
5 6 (8.82%) SD-WAN
5 6 (8.82%) VXLAN
6 4 (5.88%) Cisco Wireless
6 4 (5.88%) DNS
7 3 (4.41%) VoIP
8 2 (2.94%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (1.47%) MQTT
9 1 (1.47%) RTSP
9 1 (1.47%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.88%) JIRA
1 4 (5.88%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.47%) Git
General
1 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.12%) Finance
3 9 (13.24%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.29%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Military
5 2 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Electronics
6 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.47%) Local Government
6 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.47%) Marketing
6 1 (1.47%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.47%) Retail
6 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (13.24%) Audio Visual Engineer
2 7 (10.29%) Analyst
3 6 (8.82%) Administrator
3 6 (8.82%) Network Engineer
3 6 (8.82%) Server Administrator
3 6 (8.82%) Support Analyst
3 6 (8.82%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) Architect
4 5 (7.35%) Desktop Analyst
4 5 (7.35%) Desktop Support
4 5 (7.35%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 5 (7.35%) Senior
4 5 (7.35%) Support Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) Technical Architect
4 5 (7.35%) Windows Administrator
4 5 (7.35%) Windows Server Administrator
5 4 (5.88%) Cisco Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) Senior Architect
5 4 (5.88%) Senior Technical Architect
5 4 (5.88%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.88%) SAML
2 2 (2.94%) JSON
3 1 (1.47%) .NET
3 1 (1.47%) Flash
3 1 (1.47%) GStreamer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.41%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.94%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.47%) CMDB
5 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.47%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.47%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.47%) IoT
5 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.47%) NB-IoT
5 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.53%) Linux
2 14 (20.59%) Windows
3 6 (8.82%) Windows Server
4 5 (7.35%) VMS
5 1 (1.47%) CentOS
5 1 (1.47%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.47%) ThreadX
5 1 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (17.65%) Server Management
3 9 (13.24%) Containerisation
4 8 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (10.29%) High Availability
5 7 (10.29%) ITSM
5 7 (10.29%) Problem Management
6 6 (8.82%) Inventory Management
6 6 (8.82%) Kalman Filter
6 6 (8.82%) Open Source
6 6 (8.82%) Predictive Analysis
6 6 (8.82%) Runbook
6 6 (8.82%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (7.35%) Mobile Device Management
7 5 (7.35%) Performance Improvement
7 5 (7.35%) Preventative Maintenance
7 5 (7.35%) Technical Architecture
8 4 (5.88%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.24%) Python
2 6 (8.82%) C
2 6 (8.82%) C++
3 4 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.94%) Bash
5 1 (1.47%) C#
5 1 (1.47%) Embedded C
5 1 (1.47%) Go
5 1 (1.47%) Java
5 1 (1.47%) Perl
5 1 (1.47%) PHP
5 1 (1.47%) Ruby
5 1 (1.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.29%) Degree
2 7 (10.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.82%) CCNP
3 6 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.94%) CCIE
4 2 (2.94%) CCNA
4 2 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) SLA
2 2 (2.94%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (10.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.82%) Active Directory
3 6 (8.82%) Docker
4 2 (2.94%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.94%) vSphere
5 1 (1.47%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (8.82%) Ansible
1 6 (8.82%) Kubernetes
1 6 (8.82%) WSUS
2 5 (7.35%) Dell DRAC
2 5 (7.35%) Progress Chef
2 5 (7.35%) Puppet
2 5 (7.35%) Terraform
3 4 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.94%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.47%) SCOM
5 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.47%) VxRail
5 1 (1.47%) yum
Vendors
1 14 (20.59%) Cisco
1 14 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 13 (19.12%) Dell
3 8 (11.76%) VMware
4 6 (8.82%) F5
4 6 (8.82%) Infoblox
5 5 (7.35%) Veeam
6 4 (5.88%) Atlassian
6 4 (5.88%) Logitech
6 4 (5.88%) Okta
6 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow
7 3 (4.41%) Polycom
8 2 (2.94%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.94%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.94%) Remedy
9 1 (1.47%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.47%) Google
9 1 (1.47%) Intel
9 1 (1.47%) Renesas
9 1 (1.47%) Turbonomic