ASIC Contracts in England

Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term ASIC in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ASIC over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 649 769
Rank change year-on-year +118 +120 -154
Contract jobs citing ASIC 7 6 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.012% 0.021%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.062% 0.035% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £531 - -
25th Percentile £603 £725 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £647 £775 -
90th Percentile £650 - -
UK median daily rate £625 £750 -
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 11
10th Percentile - £59.61 £50.85
25th Percentile £57.50 £63.88 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £68.75 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +22.77% +12.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £68.75 £56.00
% change year-on-year -49.09% +22.77% +12.00%

All Generic Skills
England

ASIC is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,373 16,983 24,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.76% 33.65% 33.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,428 11,801 17,096
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 820 591 641
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +2.08%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.77
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +28.97% -18.24% +3.19%

ASIC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ASIC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ASIC in England

ASIC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ASIC in England.

Daily rate trend for ASIC in England

ASIC
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ASIC in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ASIC in England

ASIC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ASIC in England.

Hourly rate trend for ASIC in England

ASIC
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASIC within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England +10 4 £625 - 19
London +108 2 £650 -13.33% 9
North West - 1 £475 -
North of England - 1 £475 -
ASIC
UK

ASIC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Verification Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) ASIC Design Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) ASIC Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Verilog
2 3 (42.86%) FPGA
3 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (14.29%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) OO
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (28.57%) Project Management
1 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
1 2 (28.57%) UVM
1 2 (28.57%) Validation
2 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (14.29%) System Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SystemVerilog
2 3 (42.86%) C
3 2 (28.57%) Assembly Language
3 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) C++
3 2 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 2 (28.57%) Tcl
4 1 (14.29%) Embedded C
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) EMIR
2 2 (28.57%) Dodd-Frank
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cadence
1 2 (28.57%) Synopsys
1 2 (28.57%) Xilinx