Yocto Contract Job Trends in England

Yocto Project
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Yocto skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 468 524
Rank change year-on-year -108 +56 +155
Contract jobs citing Yocto 2 8 26
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.005% 0.033% 0.069%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.026% 0.14% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 9
10th Percentile £540 £247 -
25th Percentile £544 £381 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £413 £300
Median % change year-on-year +39.39% +37.50% -17.24%
75th Percentile £606 £462 £413
90th Percentile £610 £488 £450
UK median daily rate £425 £413 £300
% change year-on-year +3.03% +37.50% -17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
UK median hourly rate - £55.00 £95.00
% change year-on-year - -42.11% +72.73%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Yocto falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,829 5,537 7,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.20% 22.60% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,252 3,758 5,402
10th Percentile £358 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -0.37% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £738 £790 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 86 193
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.30 £21.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.19 £40.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.38 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.20 £83.48 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

Yocto
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Yocto job vacancy trend in England

Yocto
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Yocto.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Yocto

Yocto
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Yocto.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Yocto

Yocto
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 Yocto within the England region over the 6 months to 18 March 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
South East -49 1 £575 +35.29% 7
Midlands -59 1 £575 +784.62% 6
West Midlands - 1 £575 - 2
Yocto
UK

Yocto
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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Control Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) GStreamer
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (50.00%) FPGA
1 1 (50.00%) MicroBlaze
1 1 (50.00%) RISC-V
1 1 (50.00%) Verilog
1 1 (50.00%) VHDL
1 1 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) UVM
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared