Device Driver Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

Device Driver Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Device Driver Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Device Driver Development over the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 385 454
Rank change year-on-year +48 +69 +51
Contract jobs citing Device Driver Development 6 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.034% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.040% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £429 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.09%
75th Percentile £497 - £513
90th Percentile £519 - -
UK median daily rate £470 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +4.44% -7.69% +21.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £60.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £60.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,482 17,512 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.39% 84.75% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,218 10,485 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £248 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 824 2,030 1,307
10th Percentile £14.23 £12.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £15.18 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.97 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.42% +0.13% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.64 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £37.30
% change year-on-year -17.14% -6.17% +49.20%

Device Driver Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Device Driver Development in the UK excluding London

Device Driver Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Device Driver Development in the UK excluding London

Device Driver Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Device Driver Development in the UK excluding London

Device Driver Development
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Device Driver Development within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 6 £470 - 6
Device Driver Development
UK

Device Driver Development
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 6 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 6 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 6 (100.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Enablement
1 6 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 6 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 6 (100.00%) Project Management
1 6 (100.00%) SDLC
2 5 (83.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Embedded C
2 5 (83.33%) C
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Firmware