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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

firmware

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 159 postings naming firmware that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer85.5%
  2. 2DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer6.3%
  3. 3Security Engineer4.4%

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 = 88
10th
$125k
25th
$163k
Median
$195k
75th
$216k
90th
$245k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA18.2%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA18.2%
  3. 3Los Angeles, CA4.4%
  4. 4Remote3.8%
  5. 5Seattle, WA3.8%
  6. 6Austin, TX2.5%
  7. 7Denver, CO1.9%
  8. 8Boston, MA1.3%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.