Device Drivers
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Device Driver in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Device Driver over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 811 896 1053
Rank change year-on-year +85 +157 -230
Permanent jobs citing Device Driver 97 102 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.100% 0.096% 0.099%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.28% 0.22% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 85 68 55
10th Percentile £45,000 £26,250 £34,950
25th Percentile £46,930 £31,813 £36,250
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 £81,500 £77,500 £74,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% -9.09%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,504 45,865 71,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.49% 43.06% 46.98%
Number of salaries quoted 22,893 24,449 34,260
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Device Driver
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Device Driver in the UK

Device Driver
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Device Driver in the UK

Device Driver
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Device Driver over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Device Driver in the UK

Device Driver
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 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
UK excluding London +23 91 £60,000 +13.21% 40
England +115 78 £60,000 -4.00% 47
Work from Home +123 53 £60,000 -7.69% 32
South East +4 27 £62,500 -10.71% 11
Scotland -48 19 £60,000 +13.21% 6
South West - 13 £60,000 - 2
North of England +54 11 £50,000 +81.82% 2
East of England +13 11 £65,000 - 14
North West +18 10 £50,000 +81.82% 2
Midlands +15 10 £47,500 +72.73% 5
West Midlands +34 5 £67,500 +12.50% 2
East Midlands -16 5 £45,000 +63.64% 3
London +145 4 £150,000 +130.77% 8
Yorkshire +94 1 - -

Device Driver
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 5 (5.15%) Confluence
2 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (8.25%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.15%) GitHub
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.06%) Azure
3 2 (2.06%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.03%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 24 (24.74%) Wireless
2 19 (19.59%) RS-232
3 15 (15.46%) Ethernet
3 15 (15.46%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (7.22%) TCP/IP
5 6 (6.19%) 5G
6 4 (4.12%) 3GPP
7 2 (2.06%) Bluetooth
7 2 (2.06%) DHCP
7 2 (2.06%) DNS
7 2 (2.06%) LTE
8 1 (1.03%) LoRaWAN
8 1 (1.03%) Modbus
8 1 (1.03%) MQTT
8 1 (1.03%) PBX
8 1 (1.03%) SNMP
8 1 (1.03%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 15 (15.46%) Git
2 12 (12.37%) JIRA
3 10 (10.31%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.15%) Subversion
5 4 (4.12%) Zephyr
6 3 (3.09%) Rational DOORS
General
1 24 (24.74%) Electronics
2 21 (21.65%) Manufacturing
3 16 (16.49%) Automotive
4 12 (12.37%) Social Skills
5 11 (11.34%) Finance
6 8 (8.25%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.12%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.06%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.03%) Marketing
9 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 82 (84.54%) Software Engineer
2 56 (57.73%) Embedded Engineer
3 49 (50.52%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 42 (43.30%) Senior
5 37 (38.14%) Senior Software Engineer
6 25 (25.77%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 22 (22.68%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Embedded Linux Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Lead
8 7 (7.22%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Embedded C++ Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Firmware Engineer
11 3 (3.09%) Embedded C Engineer
11 3 (3.09%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
11 3 (3.09%) Lead Embedded Software Engineer
11 3 (3.09%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 2 (2.06%) C Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (40.21%) Yocto
2 11 (11.34%) Qt
3 7 (7.22%) Middleware
4 4 (4.12%) EDI
5 3 (3.09%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 2 (2.06%) GStreamer
7 1 (1.03%) FFmpeg
7 1 (1.03%) LDAP
7 1 (1.03%) Wayland
7 1 (1.03%) WebKit
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.49%) Embedded Systems
2 11 (11.34%) Algorithms
3 9 (9.28%) IoT
4 5 (5.15%) SIMD
5 4 (4.12%) Life Science
5 4 (4.12%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.12%) Robotics
6 3 (3.09%) Analogue Electronics
6 3 (3.09%) FPGA
7 2 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.06%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (1.03%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (1.03%) IVR
8 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.03%) State Machine
8 1 (1.03%) STB
8 1 (1.03%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 71 (73.20%) Linux
2 58 (59.79%) Embedded Linux
3 8 (8.25%) FreeRTOS
3 8 (8.25%) Windows
4 4 (4.12%) Android
5 3 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.06%) Mac OS X
6 2 (2.06%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.03%) OpenWrt
7 1 (1.03%) Unix
7 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (88.66%) Software Engineering
2 52 (53.61%) Device Driver Development
3 20 (20.62%) OOD
4 18 (18.56%) Agile
5 15 (15.46%) DevOps
6 14 (14.43%) Validation
7 12 (12.37%) Open Source
8 10 (10.31%) Signal Processing
9 9 (9.28%) OO
9 9 (9.28%) Software Testing
10 8 (8.25%) Embedded Software Development
10 8 (8.25%) Mentoring
10 8 (8.25%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (7.22%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (6.19%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (6.19%) Test Automation
13 5 (5.15%) Design Patterns
13 5 (5.15%) MVVM
14 4 (4.12%) Code Quality
14 4 (4.12%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 76 (78.35%) C
2 40 (41.24%) Python
3 34 (35.05%) C++
4 19 (19.59%) Embedded C
5 15 (15.46%) Java
6 10 (10.31%) Bash
7 9 (9.28%) Rust
8 6 (6.19%) C#
9 5 (5.15%) Assembly Language
10 2 (2.06%) Embedded C++
10 2 (2.06%) Perl
11 1 (1.03%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (26.80%) Degree
2 5 (5.15%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.06%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (1.03%) MISRA
2 1 (1.03%) MISRA C
2 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (19.59%) Firmware
2 16 (16.49%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (8.25%) Docker
4 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (5.15%) Terraform
2 3 (3.09%) Ansible
2 3 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.09%) Podman
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft
1 3 (3.09%) Red Hat
2 2 (2.06%) NVIDIA
2 2 (2.06%) VMware
3 1 (1.03%) ConnectWise
3 1 (1.03%) Renesas
3 1 (1.03%) SAP