Device Driver Jobs 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 271 217
Rank change year-on-year +118 -54 +36
Permanent jobs citing Device Driver 11 17 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.25% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.50% 0.53% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 11 17 7
10th Percentile £57,500 £31,800 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +13.21% +112.00%
75th Percentile £69,000 £62,500 £56,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £66,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.25% - -7.69%

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 733 3,210 1,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.62% 47.12% 40.70%
Number of salaries quoted 369 841 764
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,750 £32,618
25th Percentile £48,688 £39,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £89,459
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Device Driver in Scotland

Device Driver
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Device Driver in Scotland

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 28 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
Lanarkshire - 8 £66,000 -
West Lothian -3 3 £65,000 +8.33%
Device Driver
UK

Device Driver
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) Modbus
1 8 (72.73%) TCP/IP
2 3 (27.27%) Ethernet
2 3 (27.27%) RS-232
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 11 (100.00%) Senior
1 11 (100.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 8 (72.73%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
2 8 (72.73%) Firmware Engineer
2 8 (72.73%) Senior Firmware Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
1 8 (72.73%) Collaborative Working
1 8 (72.73%) Continuous Deployment
1 8 (72.73%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (72.73%) Multithreading
1 8 (72.73%) Software Architecture
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) C
2 8 (72.73%) C++
3 3 (27.27%) Embedded C
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Embedded Firmware
1 8 (72.73%) Firmware