The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term VHDL in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VHDL over the 3 months to 22 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 Middlesex 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing VHDL 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £41.50 £41.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- +18.57%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
53 69 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 25.24% 21.70% 15.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 29 12
Average daily rate £425 £350 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £320 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £615 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 4
Average hourly rate £32.50 £39.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +8.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
VHDL
South East

VHDL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex VHDL Jobs Demand Trend

VHDL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Middlesex VHDL Daily Rate Trend

VHDL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Middlesex VHDL Hourly Rate Trend

VHDL
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region citing VHDL 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 VHDL.

1 1 (100.00%) Tcl
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 1 (100.00%) Xilinx
1 1 (100.00%) Communications Security
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Actel
1 1 (100.00%) EMB Igloo

VHDL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region citing VHDL 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 VHDL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) EMB Igloo
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Communications Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Xilinx
1 1 (100.00%) Actel