Device Driver Jobs in the UK excluding London

Device Drivers
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Device Driver in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Device Driver over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 669 676 743
Rank change year-on-year +7 +67 -126
Permanent jobs citing Device Driver 89 88 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.34% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 80 59 44
10th Percentile £45,000 - £34,965
25th Percentile £46,930 £26,250 £36,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,500 £77,500 £74,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.04% +11.36% -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Device Driver is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 23,856 25,595 30,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.04% 41.25% 43.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15,215 11,533 15,779
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Device Driver
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Device Driver as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Device Driver in the UK excluding London

Device Driver
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Device Driver in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Device Driver in the UK excluding London

Device Driver
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Device Driver in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Device Driver in the UK excluding London

Device Driver
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Device Driver within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
South East +20 27 £62,500 -10.71% 20
Scotland -49 18 £60,000 +13.21% 8
South West - 12 £60,000 - 2
North of England +40 11 £50,000 +81.82% 3
East of England +9 11 £65,000 - 22
North West +16 10 £50,000 +81.82% 2
Midlands +7 10 £47,500 +72.73% 9
West Midlands +19 5 £67,500 +12.50% 3
East Midlands -16 5 £45,000 +63.64% 6
Yorkshire +82 1 - - 1
Device Driver
UK

Device Driver
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (5.62%) Confluence
2 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (8.99%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.62%) GitHub
2 3 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.25%) Azure
3 2 (2.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.12%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (25.84%) Wireless
2 18 (20.22%) RS-232
3 14 (15.73%) Ethernet
3 14 (15.73%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (7.87%) TCP/IP
5 6 (6.74%) 5G
6 4 (4.49%) 3GPP
7 2 (2.25%) Bluetooth
7 2 (2.25%) DHCP
7 2 (2.25%) DNS
7 2 (2.25%) LTE
8 1 (1.12%) LoRaWAN
8 1 (1.12%) Modbus
8 1 (1.12%) MQTT
8 1 (1.12%) PBX
8 1 (1.12%) SNMP
8 1 (1.12%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 15 (16.85%) Git
2 12 (13.48%) JIRA
3 10 (11.24%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.62%) Subversion
5 4 (4.49%) Zephyr
6 3 (3.37%) Rational DOORS
General
1 21 (23.60%) Electronics
2 19 (21.35%) Manufacturing
3 16 (17.98%) Automotive
4 11 (12.36%) Finance
4 11 (12.36%) Social Skills
5 8 (8.99%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.49%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.25%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.12%) Marketing
8 1 (1.12%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 77 (86.52%) Software Engineer
2 52 (58.43%) Embedded Engineer
3 47 (52.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 37 (41.57%) Senior
5 33 (37.08%) Senior Software Engineer
6 24 (26.97%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 21 (23.60%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Embedded Linux Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Embedded C++ Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Firmware Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Embedded C Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Lead
10 3 (3.37%) Lead Software Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 2 (2.25%) Administrator
11 2 (2.25%) C Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (38.20%) Yocto
2 10 (11.24%) Qt
3 5 (5.62%) Middleware
4 4 (4.49%) EDI
5 3 (3.37%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 1 (1.12%) FFmpeg
6 1 (1.12%) GStreamer
6 1 (1.12%) LDAP
6 1 (1.12%) Wayland
6 1 (1.12%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.85%) Embedded Systems
2 11 (12.36%) Algorithms
3 9 (10.11%) IoT
4 5 (5.62%) SIMD
5 4 (4.49%) Life Science
5 4 (4.49%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.37%) FPGA
7 2 (2.25%) Robotics
8 1 (1.12%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (1.12%) IVR
8 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.12%) State Machine
8 1 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 65 (73.03%) Linux
2 55 (61.80%) Embedded Linux
3 8 (8.99%) FreeRTOS
3 8 (8.99%) Windows
4 3 (3.37%) Android
4 3 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.25%) Mac OS X
5 2 (2.25%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.12%) OpenWrt
6 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (91.01%) Software Engineering
2 48 (53.93%) Device Driver Development
3 19 (21.35%) OOD
4 17 (19.10%) Agile
5 15 (16.85%) DevOps
6 12 (13.48%) Open Source
7 11 (12.36%) Validation
8 10 (11.24%) Signal Processing
9 9 (10.11%) OO
10 8 (8.99%) Embedded Software Development
10 8 (8.99%) Mentoring
10 8 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (8.99%) Software Testing
11 7 (7.87%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (6.74%) Technical Leadership
13 5 (5.62%) Design Patterns
13 5 (5.62%) MVVM
13 5 (5.62%) Test Automation
14 4 (4.49%) Mathematics
14 4 (4.49%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 70 (78.65%) C
2 39 (43.82%) Python
3 31 (34.83%) C++
4 16 (17.98%) Embedded C
5 15 (16.85%) Java
6 10 (11.24%) Bash
7 7 (7.87%) Rust
8 6 (6.74%) C#
9 5 (5.62%) Assembly Language
10 2 (2.25%) Embedded C++
10 2 (2.25%) Perl
11 1 (1.12%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 25 (28.09%) Degree
2 5 (5.62%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.12%) MISRA
1 1 (1.12%) MISRA C
1 1 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (21.35%) Firmware
2 16 (17.98%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (8.99%) Docker
4 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (5.62%) Terraform
2 3 (3.37%) Ansible
2 3 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.37%) Podman
3 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft
1 3 (3.37%) Red Hat
2 2 (2.25%) VMware
3 1 (1.12%) ConnectWise
3 1 (1.12%) Renesas
3 1 (1.12%) SAP