Device Driver Contracts in the UK excluding London

Device Drivers
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 448 509
Rank change year-on-year +69 +61 -84
Contract jobs citing Device Driver 19 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.092% 0.029% 0.036%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.090% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 10
10th Percentile £449 £426 £141
25th Percentile - £428 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £395
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% +17.16% +1.87%
75th Percentile - £503 £413
90th Percentile - £509 £479
UK median daily rate £419 £475 £395
% change year-on-year -11.84% +20.33% -1.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.25 - £53.53
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £54.78
75th Percentile £65.59 - £56.03
90th Percentile £67.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £54.78
% change year-on-year - - +20.40%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,085 7,771 9,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.39% 32.46% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,642 5,260 6,780
10th Percentile £210 £213 £204
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £618 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 721 436 468
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £44.65
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.70
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +3.19%

Device Driver
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Device Driver as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Device Driver in the UK excluding London

Device Driver
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Device Driver in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Device Driver in the UK excluding London

Device Driver
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Device Driver in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Device Driver in the UK excluding London

Device Driver
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Device Driver in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Device Driver in the UK excluding London

Device Driver
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
South East +33 9 £550 +15.79% 16
Scotland - 4 - - 7
South West - 3 - - 2
North of England - 2 £388 - 3
West Midlands - 1 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 9
North West - 1 £388 - 2
Device Driver
UK

Device Driver
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) Wireless
2 4 (21.05%) Internet
3 1 (5.26%) Bluetooth
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Git
1 5 (26.32%) JIRA
1 5 (26.32%) Subversion
2 3 (15.79%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 7 (36.84%) Electronics
2 4 (21.05%) Aerospace
2 4 (21.05%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.26%) French Language
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Embedded Engineer
1 8 (42.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 8 (42.11%) Software Engineer
2 1 (5.26%) Developer
2 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
2 1 (5.26%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Algorithms
1 4 (21.05%) IoT
1 4 (21.05%) PCIe
1 4 (21.05%) Verilog
1 4 (21.05%) VHDL
2 1 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Embedded Linux
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 5 (26.32%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) Windows 10
3 4 (21.05%) VxWorks
4 1 (5.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Software Engineering
2 8 (42.11%) Defect Tracking
3 7 (36.84%) Device Driver Development
4 5 (26.32%) SDLC
4 5 (26.32%) Software Distribution
5 4 (21.05%) Agile
5 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (21.05%) Code Optimisation
5 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
5 4 (21.05%) Configuration Management
5 4 (21.05%) Continuous Deployment
5 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (21.05%) Memory Management
5 4 (21.05%) Requirements Management
5 4 (21.05%) Signal Processing
5 4 (21.05%) Software Optimisation
5 4 (21.05%) Validation
6 3 (15.79%) UML
7 1 (5.26%) Biometrics
7 1 (5.26%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) C
2 6 (31.58%) C++
2 6 (31.58%) Python
3 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
3 5 (26.32%) VB
3 5 (26.32%) VBScript
4 4 (21.05%) Assembly Language
4 4 (21.05%) Embedded C
4 4 (21.05%) MATLAB
4 4 (21.05%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.26%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
1 5 (26.32%) Master's Degree
2 4 (21.05%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) MISRA
2 4 (21.05%) JTAG
2 4 (21.05%) MISRA C
3 3 (15.79%) Def Stans
3 3 (15.79%) DO-178B
4 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 13 (68.42%) Firmware
2 5 (26.32%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Atlassian
1 4 (21.05%) Intel
2 3 (15.79%) IBM