Firmware
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Firmware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Firmware over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 557 599
Rank change year-on-year +251 +42 -48
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 923 478 840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 0.48% 0.52%
As % of the System Software category 7.70% 3.09% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 686 353 320
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £31,273
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 11,984 15,477 29,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.99% 15.56% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,447 10,129 15,665
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,000
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% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Firmware in the UK

Firmware
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Firmware in the UK

Firmware
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +148 853 £52,500 +5.00% 338
England +245 777 £52,500 +10.53% 358
Work from Home +160 303 £52,500 -12.50% 149
South East +106 267 £50,000 +11.11% 122
Midlands +77 122 £52,500 +23.53% 52
East of England +62 114 £55,750 -14.23% 83
North of England +56 112 £52,500 +35.50% 24
South West +24 100 £55,000 -18.52% 41
Scotland -20 97 £52,500 -3.67% 26
West Midlands +60 70 £60,750 +35.00% 20
North West +3 65 £55,000 +4.76% 17
London +135 62 £52,500 +23.53% 45
East Midlands +23 52 £50,000 +81.82% 32
Yorkshire +87 37 £42,500 +31.99% 7
Wales +13 24 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Northern Ireland +44 17 £28,000 -13.85% 1
North East - 10 £55,000 -

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 11 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.76%) Confluence
4 5 (0.54%) Kinematics
5 3 (0.33%) IIS
6 2 (0.22%) Apache
6 2 (0.22%) nginx
7 1 (0.11%) CMS
Applications
1 24 (2.60%) Simulink
2 18 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.98%) OrCAD
4 6 (0.65%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (0.43%) Windchill
6 3 (0.33%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) LabWindows
1 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 34 (3.68%) Azure
2 22 (2.38%) AWS
3 19 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (1.63%) GitHub
6 8 (0.87%) OneDrive
6 8 (0.87%) Power Platform
7 7 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (0.65%) AWS IoT
8 6 (0.65%) SaaS
9 5 (0.54%) Entra ID
9 5 (0.54%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.43%) IaaS
11 2 (0.22%) Akamai
11 2 (0.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.22%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.22%) Azure Storage
11 2 (0.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.22%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 121 (13.11%) Wireless
2 46 (4.98%) Ethernet
3 37 (4.01%) TCP/IP
4 32 (3.47%) Firewall
5 29 (3.14%) Bluetooth
6 25 (2.71%) MQTT
6 25 (2.71%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (2.49%) HTTP
8 22 (2.38%) WAN
9 21 (2.28%) 5G
9 21 (2.28%) LAN
10 20 (2.17%) DNS
11 18 (1.95%) RS-232
12 17 (1.84%) Internet
13 16 (1.73%) SD-WAN
14 15 (1.63%) OSPF
15 13 (1.41%) Wireshark
16 12 (1.30%) Software-Defined Radio
17 11 (1.19%) BGP
17 11 (1.19%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.87%) Power BI
2 6 (0.65%) Relational Database
3 5 (0.54%) Big Data
4 4 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.33%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.11%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.11%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 53 (5.74%) Git
2 46 (4.98%) JIRA
3 28 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.28%) Rational DOORS
5 16 (1.73%) Subversion
6 14 (1.52%) LabVIEW
7 9 (0.98%) Rational Team Concert
8 6 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (0.65%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.54%) Selenium
10 4 (0.43%) GitLab
10 4 (0.43%) Rational Rhapsody
11 3 (0.33%) GCC
11 3 (0.33%) GDB
11 3 (0.33%) Postman
12 2 (0.22%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.22%) PetaLinux
12 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.11%) Phabricator
13 1 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 370 (40.09%) Electronics
2 219 (23.73%) Social Skills
3 191 (20.69%) Manufacturing
4 137 (14.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 83 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (6.07%) Finance
7 52 (5.63%) Automotive
8 50 (5.42%) Marketing
9 38 (4.12%) Telecoms
10 37 (4.01%) Public Sector
11 32 (3.47%) Retail
12 31 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
13 28 (3.03%) Legal
14 17 (1.84%) Aerospace
15 15 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (1.30%) Military
17 11 (1.19%) Law
18 10 (1.08%) Police
19 7 (0.76%) Aviation
19 7 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 281 (30.44%) Embedded Engineer
2 180 (19.50%) Senior
2 180 (19.50%) Software Engineer
3 143 (15.49%) Electronics Engineer
4 125 (13.54%) Firmware Engineer
5 121 (13.11%) Graduate
6 119 (12.89%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 106 (11.48%) Junior
8 86 (9.32%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
9 84 (9.10%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
10 79 (8.56%) Junior Electronics Engineer
11 78 (8.45%) Development Engineer
12 77 (8.34%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 71 (7.69%) Graduate Development Engineer
14 68 (7.37%) Systems Engineer
15 54 (5.85%) Lead
16 53 (5.74%) Developer
17 49 (5.31%) Senior Software Engineer
18 45 (4.88%) Hardware Engineer
19 38 (4.12%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.84%) HTML
2 16 (1.73%) Yocto
3 15 (1.63%) CSS
4 14 (1.52%) 802.1X
4 14 (1.52%) Flask
5 13 (1.41%) .NET
5 13 (1.41%) Node.js
5 13 (1.41%) Qt
6 12 (1.30%) Middleware
7 10 (1.08%) React
8 8 (0.87%) Django
9 7 (0.76%) Web Services
10 5 (0.54%) FFmpeg
10 5 (0.54%) Flash
10 5 (0.54%) GStreamer
10 5 (0.54%) OpenCV
10 5 (0.54%) REST
10 5 (0.54%) WPF
11 4 (0.43%) ARM Templates
12 3 (0.33%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 99 (10.73%) FPGA
2 75 (8.13%) Embedded Systems
3 58 (6.28%) Data Centre
4 56 (6.07%) IoT
5 52 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (4.23%) Driving Licence
7 37 (4.01%) Algorithms
8 32 (3.47%) Analogue Electronics
9 31 (3.36%) VHDL
10 26 (2.82%) Management Information System
11 21 (2.28%) GNSS
11 21 (2.28%) Replication
12 20 (2.17%) EPoS
13 19 (2.06%) Mobile App
14 18 (1.95%) Device Driver
15 13 (1.41%) PCIe
15 13 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
16 12 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
17 11 (1.19%) Raspberry Pi
18 10 (1.08%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 156 (16.90%) Linux
2 121 (13.11%) Windows
3 49 (5.31%) Embedded Linux
4 33 (3.58%) Windows Server
5 23 (2.49%) Windows 10
6 17 (1.84%) Unix
6 17 (1.84%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (1.73%) Windows Server 2012
8 15 (1.63%) FreeRTOS
9 12 (1.30%) Windows NT
10 10 (1.08%) Android
10 10 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 8 (0.87%) AIX
11 8 (0.87%) Solaris
11 8 (0.87%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.54%) VxWorks
13 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.22%) Debian
13 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (32.39%) Software Engineering
2 140 (15.17%) Computer Science
3 133 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
4 111 (12.03%) Schematic Capture
5 89 (9.64%) Agile
6 83 (8.99%) Project Planning
7 76 (8.23%) Software Testing
8 64 (6.93%) ITIL
9 59 (6.39%) Customer Service
10 57 (6.18%) SDLC
11 55 (5.96%) Mentoring
12 51 (5.53%) Mathematics
13 50 (5.42%) Validation
14 49 (5.31%) Customer Requirements
15 45 (4.88%) Physics
16 44 (4.77%) Artificial Intelligence
17 43 (4.66%) Project Management
17 43 (4.66%) Test Automation
18 42 (4.55%) Signal Processing
19 41 (4.44%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 357 (38.68%) C
2 177 (19.18%) C++
3 114 (12.35%) Python
4 108 (11.70%) Embedded C
5 53 (5.74%) C#
6 36 (3.90%) SQL
7 27 (2.93%) MATLAB
8 26 (2.82%) Java
9 22 (2.38%) Embedded C++
10 21 (2.28%) Bash
11 18 (1.95%) Perl
12 15 (1.63%) JavaScript
13 10 (1.08%) RPG
13 10 (1.08%) Tcl
14 8 (0.87%) VB
15 7 (0.76%) Assembly Language
15 7 (0.76%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.54%) XAML
17 4 (0.43%) PowerShell
18 3 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 354 (38.35%) Degree
2 102 (11.05%) Security Cleared
3 58 (6.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 34 (3.68%) DV Cleared
5 31 (3.36%) SC Cleared
6 17 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.08%) CCNP
9 9 (0.98%) CCNA
9 9 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.87%) HND
11 7 (0.76%) CCDP
11 7 (0.76%) CCIE
11 7 (0.76%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 7 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (0.65%) MCSE
13 5 (0.54%) Network+ Certification
13 5 (0.54%) PhD
13 5 (0.54%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.55%) QA
2 30 (3.25%) SLA
3 19 (2.06%) MISRA
4 15 (1.63%) JTAG
5 11 (1.19%) ISO 13485
5 11 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.19%) MISRA C
6 10 (1.08%) GDPR
7 8 (0.87%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 6 (0.65%) PMO
9 5 (0.54%) ISO 26262
10 4 (0.43%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.33%) Automotive SPICE
11 3 (0.33%) AUTOSAR
11 3 (0.33%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.33%) ECSS
11 3 (0.33%) IEC 62304
12 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 375 (40.63%) Embedded Firmware
2 37 (4.01%) Active Directory
3 36 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (1.52%) Hyper-V
6 13 (1.41%) Docker
7 7 (0.76%) vSphere
8 5 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.22%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (3.14%) SCCM
2 22 (2.38%) SCOM
3 19 (2.06%) Ansible
4 16 (1.73%) WSUS
5 12 (1.30%) Sysprep
6 11 (1.19%) Kubernetes
7 8 (0.87%) vCenter Server
8 7 (0.76%) Functional Safety
8 7 (0.76%) NetBackup
9 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.43%) Podman
11 3 (0.33%) Grafana
11 3 (0.33%) SCOrch
11 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.33%) Terraform
12 2 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.22%) HP SIM
12 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 2 (0.22%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 119 (12.89%) EMC
2 58 (6.28%) Microsoft
3 45 (4.88%) VMware
4 37 (4.01%) IBM
5 35 (3.79%) SAP
6 33 (3.58%) HP
7 32 (3.47%) NetApp
8 31 (3.36%) Dell
9 23 (2.49%) Veeam
10 20 (2.17%) Cisco
10 20 (2.17%) Xilinx
11 18 (1.95%) Red Hat
12 13 (1.41%) Fortinet
13 10 (1.08%) Citrix
14 9 (0.98%) Altera
14 9 (0.98%) Intel
14 9 (0.98%) Oracle
15 8 (0.87%) Green Hills
15 8 (0.87%) Motorola
15 8 (0.87%) SolarWinds