Device Driver Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Device Drivers
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Device Driver in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Device Driver over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Device Driver 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.098% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £569 £470 £419
% change year-on-year +21.01% +12.24% -9.46%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

Device Driver falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 328 143 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 32.25% 28.32% 25.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 99 140
10th Percentile £190 £180 £166
25th Percentile £340 £295 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £433 £435
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% -0.57% -3.33%
75th Percentile £525 £528 £564
90th Percentile £638 £588 £625
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 17
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.63 £12.07
25th Percentile £16.66 - -
Median hourly rate £20.07 £13.81 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.31% -1.36% -30.00%
75th Percentile £25.50 £16.11 £20.00
90th Percentile £52.50 £38.41 £24.84
England median hourly rate £45.23 £34.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year +32.06% +24.55% +22.22%

Device Driver
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Device Driver relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Device Driver job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Device Driver
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Device Driver.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Device Driver

Device Driver
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Device Driver.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Device Driver

Device Driver
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 April 2026. 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
Derbyshire - 1 £500 - 1
Device Driver
England

Device Driver
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) BitLocker
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft