Device Driver Job Trends in Leicestershire

Device Drivers
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Device Driver in permanent job vacancies in Leicestershire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Device Driver over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - 89
Rank change year-on-year - - -15
Permanent jobs citing Device Driver 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 0.092% - 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% - 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +63.64%
East Midlands median annual salary - - £45,000
% change year-on-year - - +63.64%

All Generic Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 246 139 348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 22.55% 39.94% 38.24%
Number of salaries quoted 150 78 194
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,675 £24,500
25th Percentile £42,286 £32,813 £31,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% +12.12% -4.07%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £60,375 £73,375
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -15.00%

Device Driver
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Device Driver relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

Device Driver job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Device Driver
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Device Driver.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Device Driver

Device Driver
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Device Driver within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 7 May 2026. 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
Leicester - 1 - -
Device Driver
East Midlands

Device Driver
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (100.00%) MQTT
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GDB
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
1 1 (100.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Cortex
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) JTAG