Yocto Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Yocto Project
Hampshire > Portsmouth

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Yocto 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 2.09% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 14.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £435 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 - -
75th Percentile £445 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £440 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £52.00 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 34 24 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 14.23% 19.67% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 7
10th Percentile £416 £468 £265
25th Percentile £421 £507 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £547 £550 £694
90th Percentile £582 - £865
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +7.16% -2.24% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 7
10th Percentile - £50.00 £58.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £61.88
Median hourly rate £47.50 £57.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -8.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £59.50 £62.50 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 £57.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year -17.39% -13.21% +1.92%

Yocto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Software-Defined Radio
1 5 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) C++ Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 5 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 5 (100.00%) MicroBlaze
1 5 (100.00%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 5 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C
1 5 (100.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 5 (100.00%) Firmware