Device Driver Development Jobs

Device Driver Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Device Driver Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Device Driver Development over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 702 862 931
Rank change year-on-year +160 +69 +271
Permanent jobs citing Device Driver Development 7 50 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.048% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.058% 0.033%
Number of salaries quoted 6 37 23
10th Percentile £57,500 - -
25th Percentile £62,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile - £84,500 £77,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% -10.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Device Driver Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

Device Driver Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Device Driver Development in the UK

Device Driver Development
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Device Driver Development in the UK

Device Driver Development
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Device Driver Development over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Device Driver Development in the UK

Device Driver Development
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Device Driver Development within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
UK excluding London +154 7 £67,500 +12.50% 42
England +115 7 £67,500 +12.50% 38
South West +98 3 £70,000 +16.67% 9
South East +78 3 £65,000 -18.75% 13
East of England +43 1 £55,000 -26.67% 8

Device Driver Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (42.86%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) OrCAD
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Software Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) C Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C/C++ Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C++ Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) FPGA Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) OpenCL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Device Driver
2 3 (42.86%) Algorithms
2 3 (42.86%) CUDA
2 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 3 (42.86%) FPGA
2 3 (42.86%) PCIe
2 3 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (42.86%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (42.86%) Mathematics
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Physics
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Embedded Software Development
4 2 (28.57%) Schematic Capture
5 1 (14.29%) Code Coverage
5 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (14.29%) Digital Signal Processing
5 1 (14.29%) Image Processing
5 1 (14.29%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C
1 7 (100.00%) C++
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Embedded C
3 2 (28.57%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
1 3 (42.86%) PhD
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Graphcore