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 2 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - -33
Permanent jobs citing Device Driver 6 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 0.48% - 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.28% - 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +63.64%
75th Percentile £71,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £67,500 - £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 263 124 397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 21.19% 36.15% 36.19%
Number of salaries quoted 152 72 193
10th Percentile £30,250 £27,750 £24,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +12.94% -15.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £72,375 £61,125 £77,750
East Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -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 2 July 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 - 4 - -
Loughborough - 2 £67,500 - 2
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 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 6 (100.00%) Wireless
2 4 (66.67%) Bluetooth
2 4 (66.67%) MQTT
2 4 (66.67%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
2 4 (66.67%) GDB
2 4 (66.67%) GitLab
2 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) Robot Framework
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Embedded Linux Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Yocto
2 4 (66.67%) pytest
2 4 (66.67%) Unity DI Container
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 6 (100.00%) IoT
2 4 (66.67%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) BDD
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 4 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Device Driver Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C
1 6 (100.00%) C++
2 4 (66.67%) Bash
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) JTAG