Yocto Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Yocto Project
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Yocto skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Yocto 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.22% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.99% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North East median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
North East median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 101 61 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 22.10% 25.21% 18.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 45 19
10th Percentile £383 £339 £275
25th Percentile £413 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £415
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +2.41% -25.89%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £475
90th Percentile £596 £640 £540
North East median daily rate £475 £445 £408
% change year-on-year +6.74% +9.20% -27.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 0
10th Percentile £50.75 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £65.00 - £20.77
% change year-on-year - - -57.61%

Yocto
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Yocto job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Yocto
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Yocto within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 25 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 - -
Yocto
North East

Yocto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C++ Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (100.00%) MicroBlaze
1 1 (100.00%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware