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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

firmware

181 live US technical postings name firmware in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 181 postings naming firmware that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer82.9%
  2. 2Security Engineer8.3%
  3. 3DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer7.2%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where firmware is named
n = 106
10th
$137k
25th
$163k
Median
$198k
75th
$216k
90th
$241k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA16%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA15.5%
  3. 3Los Angeles, CA7.7%
  4. 4Seattle, WA5%
  5. 5Remote4.4%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.3%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.2%
  8. 8Denver, CO1.1%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.