Yocto Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Yocto Project
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Yocto skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Yocto 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.42% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £310
% change year-on-year +5.26% +53.23% -27.06%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 36 22 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 15.06% 12.50% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 18
10th Percentile £325 £243 £209
25th Percentile £395 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +9.38% -17.10%
75th Percentile £534 £488 £597
90th Percentile £628 £598 £680
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £73.23 £16.12
Median % change year-on-year - +354.25% -
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +16.82% -17.69%

Yocto
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Yocto within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 15 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
County Antrim - 1 £425 - 1
Yocto
UK

Yocto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++