Firmware Jobs in the North West

Firmware
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Firmware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 242 247 318
Rank change year-on-year +5 +71 -56
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 71 43 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.62% 0.59% 0.25%
As % of the System Software category 7.22% 3.72% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 64 32 15
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,420 £32,900
25th Percentile £46,875 £26,043 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +40.00% -37.50%
75th Percentile £58,813 £61,250 £48,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,375 £60,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £45,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.75% -16.82% -

All System Software Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 983 1,157 1,655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.62% 15.94% 16.68%
Number of salaries quoted 821 782 1,078
10th Percentile £24,250 £25,500 £24,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,455 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -1.79%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the North West

Firmware
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the North West.

Salary trend for Firmware in the North West

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Firmware in the North West

Firmware
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the North West 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
Manchester +35 45 £52,500 - 7
Lancashire +1 19 £55,000 - 2
Cheshire -21 4 £55,500 +114.78% 5
Merseyside +5 2 £70,250 - 3
Cumbria -15 1 £85,000 +209.09% 1
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.08%) AWS
2 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (2.82%) Azure
3 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.41%) GCP
3 1 (1.41%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.08%) Wireless
2 8 (11.27%) HTTP
2 8 (11.27%) MQTT
3 7 (9.86%) Ethernet
4 6 (8.45%) RS-232
5 2 (2.82%) Bluetooth
5 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.41%) Firewall
6 1 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.41%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (21.13%) Git
2 4 (5.63%) JIRA
3 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.23%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (2.82%) LabVIEW
5 1 (1.41%) CMake
5 1 (1.41%) GCC
5 1 (1.41%) GDB
5 1 (1.41%) Subversion
5 1 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (30.99%) Electronics
2 16 (22.54%) Manufacturing
3 9 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.68%) Social Skills
4 8 (11.27%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (11.27%) Retail
5 2 (2.82%) Advertising
6 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.41%) Automotive
6 1 (1.41%) Military
6 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (47.89%) Senior
2 29 (40.85%) Embedded Engineer
3 23 (32.39%) Software Engineer
4 18 (25.35%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 18 (25.35%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 10 (14.08%) Systems Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Field Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Field Service Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Firmware Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Senior Field Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Senior Field Service Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Senior Software Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Lead
7 7 (9.86%) Senior Firmware Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Lead Embedded Software Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Lead Software Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.27%) .NET
1 8 (11.27%) Middleware
1 8 (11.27%) Node.js
2 7 (9.86%) CSS
2 7 (9.86%) HTML
3 2 (2.82%) AWS CDK
3 2 (2.82%) Express.js
4 1 (1.41%) EJS
4 1 (1.41%) React
4 1 (1.41%) RESTful
4 1 (1.41%) Vue
4 1 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.90%) Embedded Systems
2 8 (11.27%) Driving Licence
2 8 (11.27%) EPoS
2 8 (11.27%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.04%) FPGA
4 3 (4.23%) Device Driver
5 2 (2.82%) IoT
5 2 (2.82%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.41%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (1.41%) CCTV
6 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 23 (32.39%) Linux
2 12 (16.90%) Windows
3 10 (14.08%) Embedded Linux
3 10 (14.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (40.85%) Software Engineering
2 16 (22.54%) Agile
3 11 (15.49%) Software Architecture
4 9 (12.68%) Computer Science
4 9 (12.68%) Microservices
4 9 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (11.27%) Break/Fix
5 8 (11.27%) Customer Service
5 8 (11.27%) DevOps
5 8 (11.27%) Innovative Thinking
5 8 (11.27%) ITIL
5 8 (11.27%) Time Management
6 7 (9.86%) OO
7 6 (8.45%) Cloud Operations
7 6 (8.45%) Embedded Software Development
8 5 (7.04%) CI/CD
8 5 (7.04%) OOP
8 5 (7.04%) UML
9 4 (5.63%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (5.63%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (49.30%) C
2 15 (21.13%) Java
3 13 (18.31%) Python
4 10 (14.08%) C#
4 10 (14.08%) SQL
5 7 (9.86%) C++
6 4 (5.63%) Embedded C
7 3 (4.23%) Bash
8 1 (1.41%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.41%) Go
8 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.41%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (14.08%) Degree
2 8 (11.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.23%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.41%) HNC
5 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) SLA
2 1 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.41%) IEC 62304
2 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.41%) NIST
2 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (47.89%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (4.23%) Docker
3 2 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.82%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 3 (4.23%) Ansible
1 3 (4.23%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.23%) Podman
2 2 (2.82%) Terraform
2 2 (2.82%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (14.08%) Red Hat
2 9 (12.68%) Dell
3 8 (11.27%) HP
3 8 (11.27%) IBM
3 8 (11.27%) NetApp
4 4 (5.63%) EMC
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.82%) VMware
6 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.41%) Google