Yocto Contracts in the UK excluding London

Yocto Project
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Yocto skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Yocto over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 381 460
Rank change year-on-year +51 +79 +48
Contract jobs citing Yocto 6 18 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.087% 0.008%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.25% 0.55% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile £169 £270 -
25th Percentile £325 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £300 £475
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -36.84% -12.64%
75th Percentile - £575 £513
90th Percentile £423 - -
UK median daily rate £413 £300 £475
% change year-on-year +37.50% -36.84% +1.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £95.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £95.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.11% +72.73% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Yocto
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Yocto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Yocto in the UK excluding London

Yocto
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Yocto in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Yocto in the UK excluding London

Yocto
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Yocto in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Yocto in the UK excluding London

Yocto
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Yocto in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Yocto in the UK excluding London

Yocto
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Yocto within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East of England +18 3 £400 +33.33% 14
Midlands +21 1 £65 - 2
South East - 1 £425 - 6
Wales - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £65 - 2
Yocto
UK

Yocto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 1 (16.67%) Gerrit
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) NetBeans
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) DTV Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) POSIX
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (50.00%) STB
3 2 (33.33%) Device Driver
3 2 (33.33%) Digital TV
4 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Coaching
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Open Source
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) Product Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Video Processing
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C++
2 3 (50.00%) C
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) MISRA
1 1 (16.67%) MISRA C
1 1 (16.67%) QA
1 1 (16.67%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) QNX