Device Driver Development Contracts

Device Driver Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Device Driver Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Device Driver Development 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 514 572 714
Rank change year-on-year +58 +142 +137
Contract jobs citing Device Driver Development 6 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.023% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.027% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £410 £335 £404
25th Percentile £429 £350 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -17.95% +21.19%
75th Percentile £497 £450 £578
90th Percentile £519 £465 £591
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 - £475
% change year-on-year - - +18.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £60.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Device Driver Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

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 4 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 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
UK excluding London +62 6 £470 - 37
England +57 6 £470 +17.50% 40
South East - 6 £470 - 7
Work from Home +44 5 £475 +18.75% 20

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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 6 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 6 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 6 (100.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Enablement
1 6 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 6 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 6 (100.00%) Project Management
1 6 (100.00%) SDLC
2 5 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Embedded C
2 5 (83.33%) C
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Firmware