Device Driver Jobs in England

Device Drivers
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Device Driver in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Device Driver over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 644 764 818
Rank change year-on-year +120 +54 +201
Permanent jobs citing Device Driver 15 71 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.031% 0.080% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.082% 0.24% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 14 58 66
10th Percentile £55,500 £45,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £50,000 £31,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £74,063 £74,188 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £84,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £66,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.25% - -7.69%

All Generic Skills
England

Device Driver falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,350 30,184 38,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.80% 33.97% 44.02%
Number of salaries quoted 8,428 20,901 20,549
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,000 £46,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Device Driver
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Device Driver in England

Device Driver
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Device Driver in England.

Salary trend for Device Driver in England

Device Driver
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Device Driver in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Device Driver in England

Device Driver
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Device Driver within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +39 6 £67,500 +35.00% 5
North West +3 6 £67,500 +35.00% 3
South East +77 4 £70,000 +12.00% 16
South West +110 3 £70,000 +16.67% 14
London +97 1 £31,000 -79.33%
East of England +34 1 £55,000 -21.15% 25
Device Driver
UK

Device Driver
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (20.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Wireless
2 1 (6.67%) Softphone
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Git
1 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Aerospace
2 6 (40.00%) Electronics
2 6 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Senior
2 10 (66.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 10 (66.67%) Software Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Lead
5 2 (13.33%) Hardware Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Administrator
6 1 (6.67%) C Developer
6 1 (6.67%) C/C++ Developer
6 1 (6.67%) C++ Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Embedded Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) FPGA Developer
6 1 (6.67%) IT Administrator
6 1 (6.67%) IT Support
6 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) OpenCL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (20.00%) CUDA
1 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (20.00%) FPGA
1 3 (20.00%) PCIe
1 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (20.00%) VHDL
2 1 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Debian
3 1 (6.67%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 7 (46.67%) Device Driver Development
3 6 (40.00%) High Availability
4 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 3 (20.00%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (20.00%) Mathematics
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) Physics
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Scrum
6 2 (13.33%) Embedded Software Development
6 2 (13.33%) Schematic Capture
7 1 (6.67%) Code Coverage
7 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (6.67%) Digital Signal Processing
7 1 (6.67%) Image Processing
7 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Maintenance
7 1 (6.67%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) C
1 14 (93.33%) C++
2 9 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Embedded C
3 2 (13.33%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) PhD
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Firmware
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Graphcore
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.67%) Sophos