Device Driver Jobs in the UK excluding London

Device Drivers
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Device Driver in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Device Driver over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 673 662 734
Rank change year-on-year -11 +72 -102
Permanent jobs citing Device Driver 86 88 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% 0.36% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 77 63 45
10th Percentile £45,000 £26,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,930 £29,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,000 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.04% +11.36% -

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,020 24,581 31,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.84% 41.02% 43.79%
Number of salaries quoted 15,229 11,244 15,769
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Device Driver in the UK excluding London

Device Driver
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Device Driver in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Device Driver in the UK excluding London

Device Driver
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Device Driver within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +8 28 £62,500 -10.71% 11
Scotland -47 18 £60,000 +13.21% 6
North of England +46 11 £50,000 +81.82% 4
South West - 11 £60,000 -
North West +6 10 £50,000 +81.82% 3
East of England +1 9 £70,000 +7.69% 10
Midlands -18 9 £45,000 +2.86% 5
East Midlands -16 5 £45,000 +63.64% 4
West Midlands -2 4 - - 1
Yorkshire +83 1 - - 1
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 5 (5.81%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.81%) GitHub
2 3 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.33%) Azure
3 2 (2.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.16%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 22 (25.58%) Wireless
2 18 (20.93%) RS-232
3 14 (16.28%) Ethernet
3 14 (16.28%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (8.14%) TCP/IP
5 6 (6.98%) 5G
6 4 (4.65%) 3GPP
7 2 (2.33%) DHCP
7 2 (2.33%) DNS
7 2 (2.33%) LTE
8 1 (1.16%) Bluetooth
8 1 (1.16%) LoRaWAN
8 1 (1.16%) Modbus
8 1 (1.16%) MQTT
8 1 (1.16%) PBX
8 1 (1.16%) SNMP
8 1 (1.16%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 15 (17.44%) Git
2 12 (13.95%) JIRA
3 10 (11.63%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.81%) Subversion
5 4 (4.65%) Zephyr
6 3 (3.49%) Rational DOORS
General
1 21 (24.42%) Electronics
2 19 (22.09%) Manufacturing
3 16 (18.60%) Automotive
4 11 (12.79%) Finance
4 11 (12.79%) Social Skills
5 8 (9.30%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.65%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.33%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.16%) Marketing
8 1 (1.16%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 77 (89.53%) Software Engineer
2 53 (61.63%) Embedded Engineer
3 48 (55.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 35 (40.70%) Senior
5 32 (37.21%) Senior Software Engineer
6 24 (27.91%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 21 (24.42%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Embedded Linux Engineer
8 7 (8.14%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Embedded C++ Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Firmware Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Embedded C Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Lead
10 3 (3.49%) Lead Software Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 2 (2.33%) Administrator
11 2 (2.33%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (38.37%) Yocto
2 10 (11.63%) Qt
3 5 (5.81%) Middleware
4 4 (4.65%) EDI
5 3 (3.49%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 1 (1.16%) FFmpeg
6 1 (1.16%) GStreamer
6 1 (1.16%) LDAP
6 1 (1.16%) Wayland
6 1 (1.16%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.44%) Embedded Systems
2 12 (13.95%) Algorithms
3 9 (10.47%) IoT
4 5 (5.81%) SIMD
5 4 (4.65%) FPGA
5 4 (4.65%) Life Science
5 4 (4.65%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.33%) Robotics
7 1 (1.16%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.16%) IVR
7 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.16%) State Machine
7 1 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 64 (74.42%) Linux
2 53 (61.63%) Embedded Linux
3 8 (9.30%) FreeRTOS
3 8 (9.30%) Windows
4 3 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.33%) Mac OS X
5 2 (2.33%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.16%) Android
6 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.16%) OpenWrt
6 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (93.02%) Software Engineering
2 47 (54.65%) Device Driver Development
3 20 (23.26%) OOD
4 17 (19.77%) Agile
5 15 (17.44%) DevOps
6 12 (13.95%) Open Source
7 10 (11.63%) OO
7 10 (11.63%) Signal Processing
7 10 (11.63%) Validation
8 8 (9.30%) Embedded Software Development
8 8 (9.30%) Mentoring
8 8 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (9.30%) Software Testing
9 7 (8.14%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (6.98%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (5.81%) Design Patterns
11 5 (5.81%) MVVM
11 5 (5.81%) Test Automation
12 4 (4.65%) Mathematics
12 4 (4.65%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 67 (77.91%) C
2 36 (41.86%) Python
3 30 (34.88%) C++
4 15 (17.44%) Java
5 14 (16.28%) Embedded C
6 9 (10.47%) Bash
7 7 (8.14%) Rust
8 6 (6.98%) C#
9 5 (5.81%) Assembly Language
10 2 (2.33%) Embedded C++
10 2 (2.33%) Perl
11 1 (1.16%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 26 (30.23%) Degree
2 5 (5.81%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.16%) MISRA
1 1 (1.16%) MISRA C
1 1 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (20.93%) Firmware
2 15 (17.44%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (9.30%) Docker
4 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (5.81%) Terraform
2 3 (3.49%) Ansible
2 3 (3.49%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.49%) Podman
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (3.49%) Microsoft
1 3 (3.49%) Red Hat
2 2 (2.33%) VMware
3 1 (1.16%) ConnectWise
3 1 (1.16%) Renesas
3 1 (1.16%) SAP