Device Driver Development Jobs

Device Driver Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Device Driver Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Device Driver Development over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 857 918 1223
Rank change year-on-year +61 +305 -320
Permanent jobs citing Device Driver Development 50 29 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.031% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.032% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 37 22 17
10th Percentile - £50,000 £49,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +27.27%
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,375 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,500 £77,375 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +27.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Device Driver Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Device Driver Development in the UK

Device Driver Development
Top 13 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 1 June 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
England +63 50 £60,000 -14.29% 11
UK excluding London -10 47 £60,000 -14.29% 10
Work from Home +60 29 £50,000 -29.82% 4
South East -1 13 £80,000 +14.29%
Midlands -3 11 £45,000 -25.00% 4
South West - 10 £60,000 - 2
North of England - 8 £50,000 -
North West - 7 £50,000 -
East Midlands - 6 £45,000 - 4
East of England -6 5 £75,000 - 3
West Midlands -10 5 - -
London +113 1 £70,000 -13.85% 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -

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 5 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (2.00%) Azure
2 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.00%) Wireless
2 4 (8.00%) 3GPP
2 4 (8.00%) 5G
2 4 (8.00%) RS-232
2 4 (8.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.00%) Bluetooth
3 1 (2.00%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (2.00%) Modbus
3 1 (2.00%) MQTT
3 1 (2.00%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 11 (22.00%) Git
2 9 (18.00%) JIRA
3 4 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.00%) Subversion
3 4 (8.00%) Zephyr
4 1 (2.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.00%) GitLab
4 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (30.00%) Electronics
2 13 (26.00%) Automotive
3 7 (14.00%) Finance
4 6 (12.00%) Social Skills
5 4 (8.00%) Manufacturing
5 4 (8.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (8.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (88.00%) Software Engineer
2 26 (52.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 21 (42.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 20 (40.00%) Senior
5 17 (34.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (18.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 7 (14.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 5 (10.00%) Lead
9 4 (8.00%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Firmware Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Embedded C Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Embedded Linux Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Lead Embedded Software Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 1 (2.00%) C Software Engineer
11 1 (2.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (30.00%) Yocto
2 8 (16.00%) Qt
3 2 (4.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (2.00%) GStreamer
Miscellaneous
1 50 (100.00%) Device Driver
2 12 (24.00%) Algorithms
3 7 (14.00%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (10.00%) IoT
4 5 (10.00%) SIMD
5 3 (6.00%) Analogue Electronics
6 2 (4.00%) FPGA
7 1 (2.00%) Blackberry
7 1 (2.00%) CAN bus
7 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.00%) State Machine
7 1 (2.00%) STB
7 1 (2.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 36 (72.00%) Linux
2 27 (54.00%) Embedded Linux
3 9 (18.00%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (2.00%) Android
4 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (92.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (24.00%) DevOps
3 10 (20.00%) Agile
3 10 (20.00%) Signal Processing
4 9 (18.00%) Validation
5 7 (14.00%) Embedded Software Development
5 7 (14.00%) Open Source
6 5 (10.00%) Code Quality
6 5 (10.00%) Mathematics
6 5 (10.00%) Software Testing
7 4 (8.00%) Design Patterns
7 4 (8.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (8.00%) MVVM
7 4 (8.00%) OO
7 4 (8.00%) OOD
7 4 (8.00%) Test Automation
8 3 (6.00%) Computer Science
8 3 (6.00%) Memory Management
8 3 (6.00%) Sprint Planning
9 2 (4.00%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 40 (80.00%) C
2 21 (42.00%) Python
3 15 (30.00%) C++
4 8 (16.00%) Java
5 7 (14.00%) Rust
6 5 (10.00%) C#
7 4 (8.00%) Assembly Language
7 4 (8.00%) Bash
8 2 (4.00%) Embedded C
9 1 (2.00%) MATLAB
9 1 (2.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (30.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (2.00%) MISRA
2 1 (2.00%) MISRA C
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Firmware
2 8 (16.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (2.00%) QNX
1 1 (2.00%) Renesas