Embedded Firmware Jobs in the UK excluding London

Embedded Firmware
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 429 591
Rank change year-on-year -53 +162 +74
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Firmware 103 393 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.48% 0.23%
As % of the System Software category 2.41% 4.36% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 43 252 110
10th Percentile £43,000 £40,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,625 £46,250 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +19.05% -8.70% +4.55%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,276 9,004 8,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.73% 11.02% 15.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,416 6,920 5,492
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,613 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,404 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.34% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,751 £72,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

Embedded Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Embedded Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Firmware in the UK excluding London

Embedded Firmware
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Embedded Firmware in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Embedded Firmware in the UK excluding London

Embedded Firmware
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Embedded Firmware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Embedded Firmware in the UK excluding London

Embedded Firmware
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Firmware within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 June 2025. 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 +1 49 £62,500 +25.00% 37
East of England +28 17 £69,000 +28.37% 26
Scotland +75 12 £66,000 +25.71% 9
South West +90 9 - - 26
North of England +28 7 £46,000 -16.36% 10
Midlands +17 7 £46,000 -23.33% 14
Yorkshire +57 5 £46,000 -23.33% 7
East Midlands +19 5 £45,000 -14.29% 6
Wales +40 2 £47,500 -26.92% 9
West Midlands +36 2 £49,000 -20.33% 8
North East +44 1 £61,000 +1.67% 1
North West -9 1 £55,000 - 2
Embedded Firmware
UK

Embedded Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 1 (0.97%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 2 (1.94%) AWS
1 2 (1.94%) AWS IoT
1 2 (1.94%) Azure
1 2 (1.94%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 40 (38.83%) Software-Defined Radio
2 24 (23.30%) Wireless
3 18 (17.48%) Modbus
4 10 (9.71%) RS-485
5 8 (7.77%) Bluetooth
6 7 (6.80%) TCP/IP
7 4 (3.88%) Ethernet
7 4 (3.88%) Profibus
7 4 (3.88%) RS-232
7 4 (3.88%) ZigBee
8 3 (2.91%) MQTT
9 2 (1.94%) LoRaWAN
9 2 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.97%) GPRS
10 1 (0.97%) GSM
10 1 (0.97%) LTE
Development Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Git
2 2 (1.94%) JIRA
3 1 (0.97%) Appium
3 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.97%) Subversion
3 1 (0.97%) TestRail
General
1 31 (30.10%) Finance
2 29 (28.16%) Electronics
3 20 (19.42%) Social Skills
4 10 (9.71%) Manufacturing
5 6 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.83%) Marketing
6 5 (4.85%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.85%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.94%) Agriculture
8 2 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.94%) Automotive
8 2 (1.94%) Retail
9 1 (0.97%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (45.63%) Embedded Engineer
2 34 (33.01%) Senior
3 29 (28.16%) Software Engineer
4 28 (27.18%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 23 (22.33%) Firmware Engineer
6 21 (20.39%) Design Engineer
6 21 (20.39%) Radio Engineer
6 21 (20.39%) Systems Engineer
7 18 (17.48%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 18 (17.48%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 17 (16.50%) Electronics Engineer
9 15 (14.56%) Electronics Design Engineer
9 15 (14.56%) Senior Firmware Engineer
10 10 (9.71%) Senior Electronics Engineer
11 9 (8.74%) Senior Design Engineer
11 9 (8.74%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
12 8 (7.77%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (6.80%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
14 6 (5.83%) FPGA Design Engineer
14 6 (5.83%) Software Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.94%) REST
2 1 (0.97%) HTML
2 1 (0.97%) JSON
2 1 (0.97%) Laravel
2 1 (0.97%) RESTful
2 1 (0.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 41 (39.81%) Embedded Systems
2 28 (27.18%) FPGA
3 19 (18.45%) e-Learning
3 19 (18.45%) MicroBlaze
3 19 (18.45%) RISC-V
4 11 (10.68%) Analogue Electronics
5 9 (8.74%) Optoelectronics
6 7 (6.80%) Device Driver
6 7 (6.80%) Product Ownership
7 6 (5.83%) CAN bus
7 6 (5.83%) Verilog
7 6 (5.83%) VHDL
8 5 (4.85%) IoT
9 2 (1.94%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.94%) ARM Cortex
10 1 (0.97%) FMCG
10 1 (0.97%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.97%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 33 (32.04%) Linux
2 31 (30.10%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (4.85%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (2.91%) Android
5 2 (1.94%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.97%) Unix
6 1 (0.97%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.81%) Digital Signal Processing
1 41 (39.81%) Innovative Thinking
1 41 (39.81%) Signal Processing
2 37 (35.92%) Software Engineering
3 29 (28.16%) Agile
4 21 (20.39%) Physics
5 14 (13.59%) Mentoring
6 13 (12.62%) Prototyping
6 13 (12.62%) Schematic Capture
7 12 (11.65%) Collaborative Working
8 11 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (10.68%) Requirements Analysis
9 10 (9.71%) Validation
10 9 (8.74%) Stress Analysis
11 8 (7.77%) Project Management
11 8 (7.77%) Verification and Validation
12 7 (6.80%) CI/CD
12 7 (6.80%) Continuous Deployment
12 7 (6.80%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (6.80%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 53 (51.46%) C
2 49 (47.57%) C++
3 22 (21.36%) MATLAB
4 6 (5.83%) Ada
5 4 (3.88%) Python
6 2 (1.94%) Bash
6 2 (1.94%) C#
6 2 (1.94%) SQL
7 1 (0.97%) Java
7 1 (0.97%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.97%) PHP
7 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.97%) VB
Qualifications
1 40 (38.83%) SC Cleared
1 40 (38.83%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.50%) Degree
3 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.97%) HNC
4 1 (0.97%) HND
4 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.91%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) JTAG
3 1 (0.97%) ISO 13485
3 1 (0.97%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 103 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 5 (4.85%) SAP
2 4 (3.88%) EMC
3 2 (1.94%) Google
3 2 (1.94%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.97%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.97%) Freescale
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