Embedded Firmware Jobs in England

Embedded Firmware
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Embedded Firmware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Embedded 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 537 810 967
Rank change year-on-year +273 +157 -136
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Firmware 343 84 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 3.15% 0.66% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 206 68 49
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% +10.95% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,750 £65,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £54,250
% change year-on-year -8.70% +5.99% +5.34%

All System Software Skills
England

Embedded Firmware falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 10,881 12,689 25,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.38% 15.46% 17.90%
Number of salaries quoted 8,491 8,812 13,766
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

Embedded Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Firmware in England

Embedded Firmware
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Embedded Firmware in England.

Salary trend for Embedded Firmware in England

Embedded Firmware
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Embedded Firmware in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Embedded Firmware in England

Embedded Firmware
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Firmware within the England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +88 145 £50,000 -2.44% 20
Midlands +40 80 £60,000 +1.69% 17
North of England +43 45 £55,000 +4.76% 7
West Midlands +27 40 £61,500 +4.24% 7
East Midlands - 40 £52,500 - 10
South West -11 35 £52,500 -11.02% 10
North West +2 34 £55,000 +4.76% 4
East of England -14 24 £53,750 -17.31% 18
London +102 14 £50,000 +3.63% 4
North East - 6 £60,000 - 2
Yorkshire +67 5 £60,000 +41.18% 1
Embedded Firmware
UK

Embedded Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (3.50%) Simulink
2 5 (1.46%) OrCAD
3 3 (0.87%) GNU Octave
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.29%) TargetLink
Cloud Services
1 9 (2.62%) GitHub
2 8 (2.33%) Azure
3 7 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (1.46%) AWS
5 4 (1.17%) AWS IoT
6 3 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.29%) GCP
7 1 (0.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.41%) Wireless
2 15 (4.37%) 5G
3 10 (2.92%) Ethernet
3 10 (2.92%) LTE
3 10 (2.92%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.62%) Bluetooth
4 9 (2.62%) HTTP
5 8 (2.33%) DNS
5 8 (2.33%) Internet
5 8 (2.33%) SD-WAN
5 8 (2.33%) SMTP
5 8 (2.33%) WAN
6 7 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.75%) 5G NR
7 6 (1.75%) 802.11
7 6 (1.75%) MQTT
7 6 (1.75%) Software-Defined Radio
8 5 (1.46%) LoRaWAN
9 3 (0.87%) GSM
9 3 (0.87%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.29%) MariaDB
1 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (7.00%) Git
2 12 (3.50%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.92%) JIRA
4 3 (0.87%) GCC
4 3 (0.87%) GDB
4 3 (0.87%) GitLab
4 3 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.58%) LabVIEW
5 2 (0.58%) PetaLinux
5 2 (0.58%) Subversion
5 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.29%) CMake
6 1 (0.29%) Phabricator
6 1 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 182 (53.06%) Electronics
2 128 (37.32%) Manufacturing
3 86 (25.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (8.45%) Automotive
5 25 (7.29%) Social Skills
6 21 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (4.96%) Marketing
8 15 (4.37%) Finance
9 12 (3.50%) Legal
9 12 (3.50%) Telecoms
10 11 (3.21%) Public Sector
11 8 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.75%) Police
13 5 (1.46%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.58%) Advertising
14 2 (0.58%) Avionics
14 2 (0.58%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.58%) Local Government
14 2 (0.58%) Mandarin Language
14 2 (0.58%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 162 (47.23%) Embedded Engineer
2 97 (28.28%) Electronics Engineer
3 91 (26.53%) Software Engineer
4 85 (24.78%) Graduate
5 81 (23.62%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
6 80 (23.32%) Junior
6 80 (23.32%) Junior Electronics Engineer
7 75 (21.87%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 74 (21.57%) Development Engineer
9 73 (21.28%) Firmware Engineer
10 71 (20.70%) Graduate Development Engineer
11 65 (18.95%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
12 59 (17.20%) Senior
13 45 (13.12%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 26 (7.58%) Developer
15 25 (7.29%) Lead
16 22 (6.41%) Senior Software Engineer
17 19 (5.54%) Senior Firmware Engineer
18 18 (5.25%) Hardware Engineer
18 18 (5.25%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.66%) Yocto
2 8 (2.33%) Middleware
3 6 (1.75%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.46%) Flask
5 4 (1.17%) .NET
6 2 (0.58%) OpenGL
6 2 (0.58%) POSIX
6 2 (0.58%) Qt
6 2 (0.58%) React
6 2 (0.58%) React Native
6 2 (0.58%) Vulkan
7 1 (0.29%) Django
7 1 (0.29%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.37%) Embedded Systems
2 30 (8.75%) FPGA
3 17 (4.96%) Mobile App
4 16 (4.66%) Device Driver
4 16 (4.66%) GNSS
4 16 (4.66%) IoT
5 12 (3.50%) Analogue Electronics
5 12 (3.50%) VHDL
6 10 (2.92%) Tandem
7 9 (2.62%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.33%) CUDA
8 8 (2.33%) MicroBlaze
8 8 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.04%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.75%) PCIe
11 5 (1.46%) Robotics
12 4 (1.17%) ARM Cortex
13 2 (0.58%) Arduino
13 2 (0.58%) Raspberry Pi
13 2 (0.58%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 67 (19.53%) Linux
2 31 (9.04%) Embedded Linux
3 19 (5.54%) Windows
4 8 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.33%) Unix
5 6 (1.75%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (0.58%) Android
6 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (35.57%) Software Engineering
2 89 (25.95%) Schematic Capture
3 83 (24.20%) Project Planning
4 36 (10.50%) Agile
5 30 (8.75%) Computer Science
6 26 (7.58%) Test Automation
7 22 (6.41%) Mentoring
7 22 (6.41%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (6.41%) SDLC
8 20 (5.83%) Software Testing
9 19 (5.54%) Software Architecture
10 17 (4.96%) Configuration Management
10 17 (4.96%) FPGA Design
10 17 (4.96%) Signal Processing
11 16 (4.66%) B2B
12 15 (4.37%) DevOps
13 14 (4.08%) Design for Manufacturing
14 13 (3.79%) Business Intelligence
15 12 (3.50%) OO
15 12 (3.50%) UML
Programming Languages
1 162 (47.23%) C
2 94 (27.41%) C++
3 51 (14.87%) Python
4 27 (7.87%) Embedded C
5 16 (4.66%) C#
6 12 (3.50%) Embedded C++
6 12 (3.50%) MATLAB
7 11 (3.21%) Java
8 8 (2.33%) Perl
8 8 (2.33%) Tcl
8 8 (2.33%) VB
9 4 (1.17%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.17%) SQL
10 3 (0.87%) Bash
10 3 (0.87%) Groovy
10 3 (0.87%) Lua
10 3 (0.87%) Rust
11 2 (0.58%) Assembly Language
11 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 172 (50.15%) Degree
2 15 (4.37%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (1.75%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.46%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.17%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.58%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.29%) HNC
8 1 (0.29%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.50%) QA
2 7 (2.04%) MISRA
2 7 (2.04%) MISRA C
3 6 (1.75%) GDPR
4 3 (0.87%) IEC 62304
5 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.58%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.29%) JTAG
System Software
1 343 (100.00%) Firmware
2 5 (1.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.17%) Ansible
1 4 (1.17%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.17%) Podman
2 1 (0.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 89 (25.95%) EMC
2 11 (3.21%) SAP
3 10 (2.92%) Xilinx
4 8 (2.33%) Altera
4 8 (2.33%) Green Hills
4 8 (2.33%) Motorola
4 8 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.58%) Facebook
5 2 (0.58%) Freescale
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.58%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.29%) Atmel
6 1 (0.29%) Google