Device Driver Contract Job Trends in London

Device Drivers
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Device Driver in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Device Driver over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 357 397
Rank change year-on-year -72 +40 +79
Contract jobs citing Device Driver 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.005% 0.008% 0.011%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.014% 0.021% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £335
25th Percentile - - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.27%
75th Percentile - - £450
90th Percentile - - £465
England median daily rate £500 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.84 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £18.84 £65.00
% change year-on-year +192.01% -71.02% +18.18%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,960 4,687 5,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.32% 36.80% 33.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,399 3,100 4,114
10th Percentile £356 £331 £315
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £738
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 97 142
10th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £19.34
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £27.42
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.41% -21.66%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £49.88
90th Percentile £88.75 £64.48 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +33.21% -12.00% +61.99%

Device Driver
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Device Driver job vacancy trend in London

Device Driver
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Device Driver
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Device Driver
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
West London - 1 £500 -
Device Driver
England

Device Driver
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Lidar
1 1 (100.00%) Robotics
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Ladder Logic
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki