Device Driver Contracts

Device Drivers
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Device Driver in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Device Driver over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 692 817
Rank change year-on-year +133 +125 -148
Contract jobs citing Device Driver 23 11 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.019% 0.025%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.057% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 17
10th Percentile - - £138
25th Percentile £325 £400 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.10% +22.03% -0.13%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £463
90th Percentile - - £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £463 £400
% change year-on-year +18.92% +15.77% +6.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 3
10th Percentile - - £47.71
25th Percentile £60.25 - £49.89
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £54.78
75th Percentile £65.59 - £58.02
90th Percentile £67.38 - £59.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - £54.78
% change year-on-year - - +20.40%

All Generic Skills
UK

Device Driver is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,029 19,287 28,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.30% 33.32% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,387 13,249 20,174
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 634 712
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.45 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.21% -18.37% +4.47%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.76% -12.50%

Device Driver
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Device Driver in the UK

Device Driver
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Device Driver in the UK

Device Driver
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Device Driver over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Device Driver in the UK

Device Driver
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Device Driver in the UK

Device Driver
Top 10 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +108 19 £419 -9.46% 38
UK excluding London +68 18 £550 +18.92% 37
Work from Home +125 9 £350 -30.00% 31
South East +29 9 £550 +15.79% 11
London +99 5 £350 - 7
Scotland - 4 - - 6
South West - 3 - -
North of England - 2 £388 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £388 - 3

Device Driver
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Internet
1 4 (17.39%) Wireless
2 1 (4.35%) HTTP
2 1 (4.35%) RTSP
2 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
1 5 (21.74%) JIRA
1 5 (21.74%) Subversion
2 3 (13.04%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 7 (30.43%) Electronics
2 4 (17.39%) Aerospace
2 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.35%) French Language
3 1 (4.35%) Multimedia
3 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Embedded Engineer
1 8 (34.78%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 8 (34.78%) Software Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Network Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 1 (4.35%) C++ Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Programmer
4 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) GStreamer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Algorithms
1 4 (17.39%) IoT
1 4 (17.39%) PCIe
1 4 (17.39%) Verilog
1 4 (17.39%) VHDL
2 2 (8.70%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Embedded Linux
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 5 (21.74%) Windows 10
3 4 (17.39%) VxWorks
4 1 (4.35%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Device Driver Development
2 8 (34.78%) Defect Tracking
2 8 (34.78%) Software Engineering
3 5 (21.74%) SDLC
3 5 (21.74%) Software Distribution
4 4 (17.39%) Agile
4 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 4 (17.39%) Code Optimisation
4 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
4 4 (17.39%) Configuration Management
4 4 (17.39%) Continuous Deployment
4 4 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (17.39%) Memory Management
4 4 (17.39%) Requirements Management
4 4 (17.39%) Signal Processing
4 4 (17.39%) Software Optimisation
4 4 (17.39%) Validation
5 3 (13.04%) UML
6 1 (4.35%) Biometrics
6 1 (4.35%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) C
2 10 (43.48%) C++
3 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
3 5 (21.74%) Python
3 5 (21.74%) VB
3 5 (21.74%) VBScript
4 4 (17.39%) Assembly Language
4 4 (17.39%) Embedded C
4 4 (17.39%) MATLAB
4 4 (17.39%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Degree
1 5 (21.74%) Master's Degree
2 4 (17.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) MISRA
2 4 (17.39%) JTAG
2 4 (17.39%) MISRA C
3 3 (13.04%) Def Stans
3 3 (13.04%) DO-178B
4 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 13 (56.52%) Firmware
2 4 (17.39%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Atlassian
1 4 (17.39%) Intel
2 3 (13.04%) IBM