Yocto Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Yocto Project
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Yocto skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 - 114
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Yocto 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.045% - 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% - 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £475 £310
% change year-on-year +21.05% +53.23% -22.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 447 320 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.11% 19.02% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 187 180
10th Percentile £373 £378 £306
25th Percentile £450 £446 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +18.92% -7.50%
75th Percentile £604 £636 £575
90th Percentile £700 £743 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 3
10th Percentile £21.64 - £17.20
25th Percentile £27.21 £26.25 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +57.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £30.63
90th Percentile £71.80 - £38.50
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

Yocto
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Yocto relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Yocto job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Yocto
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Yocto within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Worcestershire - 1 £575 -
Yocto
England

Yocto
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
1 1 (100.00%) MicroBlaze
1 1 (100.00%) RISC-V
1 1 (100.00%) Verilog
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) UVM
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared