FreeRTOS Contract Job Trends

FreeRTOS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring FreeRTOS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 558 526 635
Rank change year-on-year -32 +109 +221
Contract jobs citing FreeRTOS 4 31 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.080% 0.018%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.090% 0.57% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £419 - £350
25th Percentile £420 - £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.52%
75th Percentile £470 - £497
90th Percentile £473 - £540
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 18 0
10th Percentile - £68.88 -
25th Percentile £82.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +21.43% - -

All Operating Systems
UK

FreeRTOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,434 5,454 7,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.48% 14.16% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,835 3,479 5,268
10th Percentile £188 £200 £185
25th Percentile £300 £330 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £673 £675 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 268 373
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.45 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.70% +5.26% +98.66%
75th Percentile £58.75 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -54.27% +19.88% +108.55%

FreeRTOS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FreeRTOS in the UK

FreeRTOS
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FreeRTOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FreeRTOS

FreeRTOS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FreeRTOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FreeRTOS

FreeRTOS
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FreeRTOS within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 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
England -16 2 £450 - 16
UK excluding London -25 2 £438 - 21
Work from Home - 2 £450 - 13
East of England - 1 - - 2
Scotland - 1 £438 - 5
London - 1 £450 - 1

FreeRTOS
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 1 (25.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (25.00%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Firmware Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Tester
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Tester
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Device Driver
2 1 (25.00%) IoT
2 1 (25.00%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) SysML
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded C
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) JTAG
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (75.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atmel