The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term ASIC in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ASIC over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
Rank 493 549 562
Rank change year-on-year
+56 +13
Contract jobs citing ASIC 17 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.041% 0.017% 0.018%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.153% 0.067% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £275 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 6
Average hourly rate £40.50 £42.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.70% +13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £40.50 £34.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.20 £43.70 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.50 £43.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-6.35% +8.12%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
11144 13491 16543
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 26.81% 25.29% 29.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6882 8110 9959
Average daily rate £443 £430 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.90% -18.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £601 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 496 619 691
Average hourly rate £24.00 £23.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.31
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
ASIC
UK

ASIC
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ASIC across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

England ASIC Jobs Demand Trend

ASIC
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ASIC across the England region.

England ASIC Daily Rate Trend

ASIC
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ASIC across the England region.

England ASIC Hourly Rate Trend

ASIC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASIC within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South East +28 6 £275 -
London - 6 - -
East of England +16 5 - -
ASIC
UK

ASIC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ASIC also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited ASIC.

1 24 (63.16%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 20 (52.63%) Verilog
3 12 (31.58%) VHDL
4 11 (28.95%) Degree
5 10 (26.32%) ASIC Verification
6 9 (23.68%) Telecoms
6 9 (23.68%) Altera
7 7 (18.42%) TCP/IP
7 7 (18.42%) Investment Banking
7 7 (18.42%) Banking
7 7 (18.42%) Computer Science
7 7 (18.42%) Legal
8 6 (15.79%) Wireless
9 5 (13.16%) C
9 5 (13.16%) Multimedia
10 4 (10.53%) Xilinx
10 4 (10.53%) Handset
10 4 (10.53%) GPRS
10 4 (10.53%) GSM
10 4 (10.53%) WCDMA
11 3 (7.895%) 3G
11 3 (7.895%) Configuration Management
11 3 (7.895%) HSDPA
11 3 (7.895%) Project Management
11 3 (7.895%) Ethernet
11 3 (7.895%) CDMA
11 3 (7.895%) Validation
11 3 (7.895%) IC Design
11 3 (7.895%) Marketing
11 3 (7.895%) HSUPA

ASIC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ASIC also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited ASIC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) TCP/IP
2 6 (15.79%) Wireless
3 4 (10.53%) WCDMA
3 4 (10.53%) GPRS
3 4 (10.53%) GSM
4 3 (7.895%) CDMA
4 3 (7.895%) Ethernet
4 3 (7.895%) HSDPA
4 3 (7.895%) OFDM
4 3 (7.895%) HSPA
4 3 (7.895%) LTE
4 3 (7.895%) HSUPA
4 3 (7.895%) 3G
5 2 (5.263%) TDMA
5 2 (5.263%) PPP
5 2 (5.263%) IPv6
5 2 (5.263%) UMTS
6 1 (2.632%) 3GPP
6 1 (2.632%) 2G
6 1 (2.632%) IP Telephony
General
1 9 (23.68%) Telecoms
2 7 (18.42%) Legal
2 7 (18.42%) Banking
2 7 (18.42%) Investment Banking
3 5 (13.16%) Multimedia
4 3 (7.895%) Marketing
5 2 (5.263%) Avionics
5 2 (5.263%) Finance
5 2 (5.263%) Aerospace
5 2 (5.263%) Military
6 1 (2.632%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) FPGA Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) Verification Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Software Engineer
4 3 (7.895%) Design Engineer
4 3 (7.895%) Test Engineer
4 3 (7.895%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 3 (7.895%) ASIC Design Engineer
4 3 (7.895%) Designer
5 2 (5.263%) Network Engineer
6 1 (2.632%) Support Engineer
6 1 (2.632%) Field Engineer
6 1 (2.632%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (2.632%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (2.632%) Network Support
6 1 (2.632%) Performance Engineer
6 1 (2.632%) Network Operator
6 1 (2.632%) Embedded C Engineer
6 1 (2.632%) GSM Engineer
6 1 (2.632%) Coordinator
6 1 (2.632%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 24 (63.16%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 20 (52.63%) Verilog
3 12 (31.58%) VHDL
4 10 (26.32%) ASIC Verification
5 7 (18.42%) Computer Science
6 4 (10.53%) Handset
7 1 (2.632%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (2.632%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.632%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (7.895%) Validation
1 3 (7.895%) IC Design
1 3 (7.895%) Configuration Management
1 3 (7.895%) Project Management
2 2 (5.263%) Quality Management
2 2 (5.263%) Change Management
2 2 (5.263%) Code Coverage
2 2 (5.263%) Software Engineering
2 2 (5.263%) Business Development
2 2 (5.263%) Product Management
2 2 (5.263%) Requirements Engineering
3 1 (2.632%) Digital Signal Processing
3 1 (2.632%) Signal Processing
3 1 (2.632%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) C
2 2 (5.263%) Perl
2 2 (5.263%) MATLAB
3 1 (2.632%) Embedded C
3 1 (2.632%) Tcl
3 1 (2.632%) Pascal
3 1 (2.632%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Degree
2 1 (2.632%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.632%) CCIE
2 1 (2.632%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.263%) DO-254
Systems Management
1 2 (5.263%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) Altera
2 4 (10.53%) Xilinx
3 1 (2.632%) Agilent
3 1 (2.632%) F5
3 1 (2.632%) Twitter
3 1 (2.632%) Cisco
3 1 (2.632%) Juniper
3 1 (2.632%) Anite
3 1 (2.632%) Perforce
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