Firmware Contracts

Firmware
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 523 675
Rank change year-on-year +161 +152 -84
Contract jobs citing Firmware 217 178 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.31% 0.21%
As % of the System Software category 4.75% 2.38% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 94 111
10th Percentile £205 £200 £303
25th Percentile £269 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +2.63% +26.67%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £556
90th Percentile £575 £585 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 28 12
10th Percentile £24.18 £42.63 £28.38
25th Percentile £50.75 £47.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +10.00% +1.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £54.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +8.70% +109.09% -44.72%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,571 7,489 11,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.74% 13.11% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,147 5,323 8,425
10th Percentile £200 £203 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -3.65% +6.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 260 305
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £54.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.52% +170.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £40.75
90th Percentile £78.20 £75.77 £60.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.18 £41.88 £18.12
% change year-on-year -54.21% +131.16% -0.85%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the UK

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in the UK

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the UK

Firmware
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firmware over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firmware in the UK

Firmware
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +135 193 £400 -13.51% 316
UK excluding London +86 150 £475 +5.56% 304
South East +66 75 £525 +162.50% 115
London +132 61 £375 -27.88% 34
Work from Home +89 38 £400 -23.08% 136
North of England +34 27 £500 +11.11% 21
North West +33 24 £508 +12.94% 15
Scotland +62 16 £388 -22.50% 23
South West +22 14 - - 43
East of England -17 12 £450 -1.37% 64
Midlands +21 4 £275 -42.11% 48
East Midlands +11 3 £270 -24.21% 28
North East - 3 £425 - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 1
West Midlands +12 1 £550 +6.80% 20

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 16 (7.37%) Confluence
2 12 (5.53%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 23 (10.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.92%) Simulink
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (5.99%) Azure
2 7 (3.23%) AWS
2 7 (3.23%) GCP
3 5 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (2.30%) OpenShift
4 4 (1.84%) SaaS
5 3 (1.38%) IaaS
6 2 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.46%) Amazon Alexa
7 1 (0.46%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.46%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.46%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.46%) Azure Storage
7 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.46%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.46%) Firebase
7 1 (0.46%) GitHub
7 1 (0.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 30 (13.82%) Firewall
2 27 (12.44%) SNMP
3 25 (11.52%) Software-Defined Radio
4 23 (10.60%) LAN
5 19 (8.76%) BGP
5 19 (8.76%) IPsec
5 19 (8.76%) OSPF
5 19 (8.76%) Wireless
6 16 (7.37%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (6.45%) VPN
8 13 (5.99%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (5.99%) Cisco Firepower
8 13 (5.99%) Cisco ISE
8 13 (5.99%) EIGRP
8 13 (5.99%) HSRP
8 13 (5.99%) NetScaler
9 12 (5.53%) Spanning Tree
10 11 (5.07%) SAN
11 10 (4.61%) VoIP
11 10 (4.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (10.14%) Git
2 21 (9.68%) JIRA
3 16 (7.37%) Eclipse
4 15 (6.91%) Bitbucket
4 15 (6.91%) GoogleTest
4 15 (6.91%) Robot Framework
5 5 (2.30%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (1.84%) Subversion
7 3 (1.38%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.46%) CMake
General
1 66 (30.41%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.14%) Organisational Skills
3 17 (7.83%) Finance
4 13 (5.99%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.53%) Electronics
6 11 (5.07%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.69%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.76%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.38%) Banking
9 3 (1.38%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.92%) Marketing
10 2 (0.92%) Military
10 2 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.46%) French Language
11 1 (0.46%) Law
11 1 (0.46%) Local Government
11 1 (0.46%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.46%) Retail
11 1 (0.46%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 31 (14.29%) Hardware Engineer
2 29 (13.36%) Software Engineer
3 26 (11.98%) Network Engineer
4 21 (9.68%) Embedded Engineer
4 21 (9.68%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 20 (9.22%) Windows Engineer
6 19 (8.76%) Build Engineer
6 19 (8.76%) Windows Build Engineer
7 17 (7.83%) Developer
8 12 (5.53%) Firmware Developer
9 11 (5.07%) Analyst
9 11 (5.07%) C++ Software Engineer
9 11 (5.07%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (4.61%) Cisco Engineer
10 10 (4.61%) Senior
10 10 (4.61%) Senior Network Engineer
10 10 (4.61%) VMware Engineer
11 9 (4.15%) Audio Visual Engineer
12 8 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.37%) CSS
1 16 (7.37%) HTML
2 12 (5.53%) Jinja
3 4 (1.84%) SAML
3 4 (1.84%) Yocto
4 1 (0.46%) .NET
4 1 (0.46%) Flash
4 1 (0.46%) GStreamer
4 1 (0.46%) JSON
4 1 (0.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.76%) Driving Licence
2 13 (5.99%) Data Centre
2 13 (5.99%) Device Driver
3 11 (5.07%) Embedded Systems
3 11 (5.07%) FPGA
3 11 (5.07%) VHDL
4 8 (3.69%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.30%) IoT
5 5 (2.30%) Verilog
5 5 (2.30%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (1.84%) PCIe
7 3 (1.38%) CMDB
7 3 (1.38%) Digital TV
7 3 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.38%) STB
8 2 (0.92%) FMCG
8 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.92%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.46%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 62 (28.57%) Windows
2 50 (23.04%) Linux
3 34 (15.67%) Windows 10
4 26 (11.98%) Windows Server
5 19 (8.76%) Windows NT
5 19 (8.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 19 (8.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (8.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (6.91%) Windows 7
7 6 (2.76%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (2.76%) VMS
8 5 (2.30%) Unix
9 4 (1.84%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.46%) CentOS
10 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (22.58%) ITIL
2 44 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (16.59%) Customer Service
4 34 (15.67%) Software Engineering
5 28 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 27 (12.44%) Agile
6 27 (12.44%) Validation
7 24 (11.06%) UML
8 21 (9.68%) SysML
9 19 (8.76%) Deployment Automation
9 19 (8.76%) ITSM
9 19 (8.76%) Release Management
9 19 (8.76%) Service Management
9 19 (8.76%) Software Testing
9 19 (8.76%) User Acceptance Testing
9 19 (8.76%) Verification and Validation
10 17 (7.83%) Change Management
11 16 (7.37%) Scrum
12 15 (6.91%) Customer Requirements
12 15 (6.91%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 30 (13.82%) Python
2 26 (11.98%) C
2 26 (11.98%) C++
3 16 (7.37%) JavaScript
3 16 (7.37%) Perl
4 13 (5.99%) Tcl
5 10 (4.61%) Java
6 9 (4.15%) Embedded C
7 8 (3.69%) MATLAB
8 5 (2.30%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.84%) Assembly Language
9 4 (1.84%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.38%) Bash
10 3 (1.38%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.92%) SQL
12 1 (0.46%) C#
12 1 (0.46%) Go
12 1 (0.46%) PHP
12 1 (0.46%) Ruby
12 1 (0.46%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 64 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 40 (18.43%) Degree
3 35 (16.13%) DV Cleared
4 29 (13.36%) SC Cleared
5 22 (10.14%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (8.29%) CCNA
6 18 (8.29%) CCNP
7 6 (2.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.84%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.84%) MCSE
9 4 (1.84%) PhD
10 2 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.92%) CCIE
10 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.92%) HND
11 1 (0.46%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.68%) QA
2 8 (3.69%) SLA
3 7 (3.23%) MISRA
4 4 (1.84%) JTAG
4 4 (1.84%) MISRA C
5 3 (1.38%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.38%) DO-178B
6 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.92%) NCSC
7 1 (0.46%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.46%) NIST
7 1 (0.46%) NIST 800
System Software
1 27 (12.44%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.15%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (3.69%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.76%) Docker
6 6 (2.76%) vSphere
7 2 (0.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (15.67%) SCCM
2 25 (11.52%) WSUS
3 19 (8.76%) Sysprep
4 18 (8.29%) Ansible
5 7 (3.23%) vCenter Server
6 6 (2.76%) Dell DRAC
6 6 (2.76%) Kubernetes
7 5 (2.30%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.30%) Puppet
7 5 (2.30%) Terraform
8 4 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.92%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.46%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.46%) SCOM
10 1 (0.46%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.46%) VxRail
10 1 (0.46%) yum
Vendors
1 53 (24.42%) Microsoft
2 39 (17.97%) Cisco
3 20 (9.22%) Atlassian
4 19 (8.76%) VMware
5 17 (7.83%) Google
6 15 (6.91%) HP
6 15 (6.91%) Palo Alto
7 14 (6.45%) Dell
8 13 (5.99%) Citrix
8 13 (5.99%) SolarWinds
9 6 (2.76%) F5
9 6 (2.76%) Infoblox
10 5 (2.30%) Intel
10 5 (2.30%) Veeam
10 5 (2.30%) Xilinx
11 4 (1.84%) IBM
11 4 (1.84%) Logitech
11 4 (1.84%) Okta
11 4 (1.84%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.38%) EMC