Device Driver Development Contracts

Device Driver Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Device Driver Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Device Driver Development over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 688 843
Rank change year-on-year +113 +155 -145
Contract jobs citing Device Driver Development 10 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.009% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.010% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £335 - £387
25th Percentile £350 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £405
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +23.46% -22.86%
75th Percentile £450 £600 £413
90th Percentile £465 - £414
UK excluding London median daily rate - £475 £405
% change year-on-year - +17.28% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.25 - -
Median hourly rate £60.50 - -
75th Percentile £67.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Device Driver Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Device Driver Development
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Device Driver Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Device Driver Development in the UK

Device Driver Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Device Driver Development.

Daily rate trend for Device Driver Development in the UK

Device Driver Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Device Driver Development.

Hourly rate trend for Device Driver Development in the UK

Device Driver Development
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Device Driver Development within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +75 7 - - 36
England +107 6 £400 -15.79% 37
Scotland - 4 - - 4
London - 3 £400 - 6
South West - 3 - - 1
Work from Home +125 2 £400 -20.00% 27

Device Driver Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (10.00%) RTSP
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 7 (70.00%) Electronics
2 1 (10.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C++ Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Programmer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) GStreamer
1 1 (10.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Device Driver
2 4 (40.00%) IoT
2 4 (40.00%) PCIe
2 4 (40.00%) Verilog
2 4 (40.00%) VHDL
3 1 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 5 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (40.00%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) Code Optimisation
1 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (40.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (40.00%) Defect Tracking
1 4 (40.00%) Memory Management
1 4 (40.00%) Requirements Management
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) UML
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Kernel Development
3 1 (10.00%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C
2 4 (40.00%) C++
2 4 (40.00%) Embedded C
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) MISRA
2 4 (40.00%) MISRA C
3 3 (30.00%) Def Stans
3 3 (30.00%) DO-178B
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (40.00%) Intel
2 3 (30.00%) IBM