Device Driver Job Trends in Scotland

Device Drivers
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Device Driver in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Device Driver over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 145 182
Rank change year-on-year +9 +37 +25
Permanent jobs citing Device Driver 3 4 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.11% 0.15% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.39% 0.49% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +13.21%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,688 £62,500
90th Percentile - £68,625 -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 760 810 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 27.93% 30.03% 41.47%
Number of salaries quoted 344 344 637
10th Percentile £25,087 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £56,509 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.21% -5.82% +3.45%
75th Percentile £62,813 £73,849 £75,000
90th Percentile £73,200 £93,778 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Device Driver
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Device Driver job vacancy trend in Scotland

Device Driver
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Device Driver.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Device Driver

Device Driver
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Device Driver within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
West Lothian +11 3 £65,000 -3.70%
Device Driver
UK

Device Driver
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 3 (100.00%) RS-232
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Yocto
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded C