Yocto Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Yocto Project
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Yocto skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Yocto over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 547 640
Rank change year-on-year +146 +93 +158
Permanent jobs citing Yocto 12 42 31
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.080% 0.12% 0.073%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% 0.47% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11 33 4
10th Percentile £57,500 £48,000 £48,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £84,250 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £145,000 £63,750 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +19.05%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Yocto falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,933 8,978 14,466
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.28% 26.53% 33.88%
Number of salaries quoted 3,186 7,510 10,860
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,225 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £79,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%

Yocto
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Yocto as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Yocto trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Yocto
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Yocto.

Yocto salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Yocto
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Yocto over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Yocto salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Yocto
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (25.00%) Ethernet
1 3 (25.00%) RS-232
2 1 (8.33%) GSM
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) GDB
1 4 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GCC
2 1 (8.33%) gcov
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) PetaLinux
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (41.67%) Manufacturing
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Electronics
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Senior
2 6 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Firmware Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Lead
4 3 (25.00%) Senior Firmware Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) C Software Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) C/C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Embedded C Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Embedded C Software Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) OpenEmbedded
2 1 (8.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (25.00%) Device Driver
1 3 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (25.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (16.67%) CCTV
2 2 (16.67%) IoT
3 1 (8.33%) FPGA
3 1 (8.33%) Verilog
3 1 (8.33%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 9 (75.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
3 3 (25.00%) Key Management
3 3 (25.00%) Linux Kernel Development
3 3 (25.00%) Open Source
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Vision
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 2 (16.67%) Multithreaded Programming
4 2 (16.67%) Multithreading
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Video Processing
5 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (8.33%) FPGA Design
5 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Project Planning
5 1 (8.33%) Signal Processing
5 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) C
2 6 (50.00%) C++
3 3 (25.00%) Embedded C
3 3 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (8.33%) Rust
5 1 (8.33%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) JTAG
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Firmware
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) IBM
1 1 (8.33%) QNX
1 1 (8.33%) Xilinx