Device Driver Contracts in the East of England

Device Drivers
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Device Driver in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Device Driver over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 - 117
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs citing Device Driver 4 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.43% - 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.96% - 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £340 - -
25th Percentile £363 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.91%
75th Percentile £419 - £475
90th Percentile £430 - -
England median daily rate £445 £419 £463
% change year-on-year +6.27% -9.46% +50.41%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 416 512 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 44.35% 26.82% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 253 450
10th Percentile £225 £178 £185
25th Percentile £398 £295 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% +3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 127 52
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.24 £20.54
25th Percentile £26.30 £17.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -12.70% +121.75%
75th Percentile £83.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £70.00 £79.38
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Device Driver
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Device Driver in the East of England

Device Driver
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Device Driver in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Device Driver in the East of England

Device Driver
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Device Driver in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Device Driver in the East of England

Device Driver
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Essex - 4 £400 -
Device Driver
England

Device Driver
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Gerrit
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) POSIX
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) STB
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C
2 2 (50.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script