Device Driver Contracts in the Thames Valley

Device Drivers
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Device Driver in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Device Driver over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 145 164
Rank change year-on-year +9 +19 -31
Contract jobs citing Device Driver 4 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.15% 0.034% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 0.11% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £386
25th Percentile - £438 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 £405
Median % change year-on-year - +17.28% -
75th Percentile - £513 £413
90th Percentile - - £443
South East median daily rate £550 £475 £402
% change year-on-year +15.79% +18.09% +0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £65.00 - £54.78
% change year-on-year - - +28.89%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

Device Driver is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 810 951 1,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.98% 32.47% 30.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 626 689
10th Percentile £205 £278 £193
25th Percentile £280 £410 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £660
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 24 30
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.08 £17.42
25th Percentile £22.50 £19.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £48.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +143.75% -21.57%
75th Percentile £59.97 £70.90 £26.88
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.93 £67.57
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £51.25 £21.74
% change year-on-year -7.32% +135.79% -25.05%

Device Driver
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Device Driver as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Device Driver in the Thames Valley

Device Driver
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Device Driver in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Device Driver in the Thames Valley

Device Driver
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Device Driver in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Device Driver in the Thames Valley

Device Driver
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Device Driver within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxfordshire - 4 - - 5
Device Driver
South East

Device Driver
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 4 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 4 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Software Optimisation
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Assembly Language
1 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 4 (100.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) JTAG
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (100.00%) Firmware