Device Driver Contract Job Trends in England

Device Drivers
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Device Driver in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Device Driver over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 494 540
Rank change year-on-year -32 +46 +186
Contract jobs citing Device Driver 7 10 23
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.022% 0.035% 0.062%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.062% 0.11% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 8
10th Percentile - £400 £141
25th Percentile £544 £447 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £475 £350
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +35.71% -17.65%
75th Percentile £666 £519 £391
90th Percentile £716 £586 £456
UK median daily rate £189 £475 £350
% change year-on-year -60.26% +35.71% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £51.75
25th Percentile - - £52.75
Median hourly rate - £67.02 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +21.85% +2.33%
75th Percentile - - £55.63
90th Percentile - - £58.10
UK median hourly rate - £67.02 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +21.85% +2.33%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,229 9,362 11,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.70% 32.32% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,075 5,679 8,116
10th Percentile £281 £278 £269
25th Percentile £408 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.05% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 277 459
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £16.75
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.60 £20.84
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.16%
75th Percentile £61.50 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -17.55% -22.35% +21.43%

Device Driver
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Device Driver job vacancy trend in England

Device Driver
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Device Driver.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Device Driver

Device Driver
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Device Driver in England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Device Driver in England

Device Driver
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Device Driver.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Device Driver

Device Driver
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
East of England -19 2 £563 - 3
South West -7 1 - - 6
London - 1 £700 -
Device Driver
UK

Device Driver
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Ethernet
2 2 (28.57%) MIMO
2 2 (28.57%) Wireless
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) HTTP
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) KGDB
2 1 (14.29%) MSI
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Kernel Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Kernel Software Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Developer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) OpenEmbedded
1 3 (42.86%) Yocto
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) gRPC
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) FPGA
1 2 (28.57%) VHDL
2 1 (14.29%) Life Science
2 1 (14.29%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Linux Kernel Development
2 3 (42.86%) Open Source
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Device Driver Development
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) UAG
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft