Device Driver Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Device Driver in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Device Driver over the 3 months to 24 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 South West 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Device Drivers
Rank 106 121 105
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -16
Contract jobs citing Device Driver 2 15 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.099% 0.464% 0.601%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.495% 2.377% 3.373%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 5
Average daily rate £220 £308 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.45% -12.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £255 £313
% change year-on-year
+27.45% -18.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +6.25%
Search 1 Device Driver jobs in the South West
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 404 631 504
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 20.03% 19.51% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 335 215
Average daily rate £350 £390 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.25% +11.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £264 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £525 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 42 56
Average hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -24.13%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.70 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £44.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Device Driver
England

Device Driver
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region.

South West Device Driver Hourly Rate Trend

Device Driver
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Device Driver within the South West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bristol +11 1 - -
Wiltshire -3 1 £220 -28.45%
Device Driver
England

Device Driver
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) QNX
2 1 (33.33%) Multimedia
2 1 (33.33%) SCADA

Device Driver
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 (33.33%) Middleware
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) C++ Developer
1 1 (33.33%) C++ Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) C
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) QNX
Embedded Linux
South West England
We have an immediate requirement for a low level embedded linux software engineer... You must have experience of TI OMAP and Freescale IMX. A large part of this...
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Posted: 23 May 2013
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