The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Device Driver in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Device Driver over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Hampshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Device Drivers
Rank 101 95 105
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +10
Contract jobs citing Device Driver 3 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.194% 0.250% 0.108%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.865% 1.316% 0.588%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £278 £313
% change year-on-year
+26.12% -11.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
Average hourly rate £47.50 £38.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.37% +18.46%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +6.25%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
347 304 340
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 22.42% 18.96% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 122 133
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £241 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £540 £456
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 57 66
Average hourly rate £35.00 £24.50 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -27.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.18 £13.00 £13.56
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £39.05 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Device Driver
South East

Device Driver
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Device Driver across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Hampshire Device Driver Jobs Demand Trend

Device Driver
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Device Driver across the Hampshire region.

Hampshire Device Driver Daily Rate Trend

Device Driver
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Device Driver across the Hampshire region.

Hampshire Device Driver Hourly Rate Trend

Device Driver
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Device Driver across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Hampshire Device Driver Hourly Rate Histogram

Device Driver
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Device Driver also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Device Driver.

1 9 (100.00%) C++
2 8 (88.89%) C
3 7 (77.78%) 3G
3 7 (77.78%) UTRAN
4 6 (66.67%) Telecoms
5 5 (55.56%) LTE
6 4 (44.44%) Embedded Software Development
6 4 (44.44%) Embedded C
6 4 (44.44%) Embedded C++
6 4 (44.44%) CDMA
6 4 (44.44%) 3GPP
7 3 (33.33%) VHDL
7 3 (33.33%) Multithreading
8 2 (22.22%) WiMAX
8 2 (22.22%) 4G
8 2 (22.22%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (22.22%) Handset
8 2 (22.22%) Wireless
8 2 (22.22%) 2G
8 2 (22.22%) UMTS
9 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
9 1 (11.11%) Java
9 1 (11.11%) JUnit
9 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
9 1 (11.11%) XML
9 1 (11.11%) UNIX
9 1 (11.11%) Windows
9 1 (11.11%) VC++
9 1 (11.11%) Swing
9 1 (11.11%) Java RMI

Device Driver
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Device Driver also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Device Driver. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) XML
1 1 (11.11%) Swing
1 1 (11.11%) Java RMI
1 1 (11.11%) Jini
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) 3G
1 7 (77.78%) UTRAN
2 5 (55.56%) LTE
3 4 (44.44%) CDMA
3 4 (44.44%) 3GPP
4 2 (22.22%) UMTS
4 2 (22.22%) 4G
4 2 (22.22%) Wireless
4 2 (22.22%) 2G
4 2 (22.22%) WiMAX
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JUnit
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
1 1 (11.11%) Bugzilla
1 1 (11.11%) NetBeans
1 1 (11.11%) Subversion
1 1 (11.11%) WiX
General
1 6 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DSP Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) VHDL
2 2 (22.22%) Handset
2 2 (22.22%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Embedded Software Development
2 3 (33.33%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C++
2 8 (88.89%) C
3 4 (44.44%) Embedded C
3 4 (44.44%) Embedded C++
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) VC++
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
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