Digital Signal Processing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Digital Signal Processing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Digital Signal Processing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Signal Processing over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 394 441 517
Rank change year-on-year +47 +76 -88
Contract jobs citing Digital Signal Processing 4 14 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.058% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.065% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £530 £453 -
25th Percentile £538 £506 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 -
75th Percentile £605 £575 -
90th Percentile £623 £588 -
UK median daily rate £550 £550 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £54.85 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.91 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -21.46% +50.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.96 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £58.91 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.39% +7.10% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Digital Signal Processing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,539 21,424 27,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.73% 89.49% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,477 14,871 19,220
10th Percentile £250 £255 £232
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,058 1,303 1,363
10th Percentile £12.33 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.34 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Digital Signal Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Digital Signal Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Signal Processing in the UK excluding London

Digital Signal Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Signal Processing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Digital Signal Processing in the UK excluding London

Digital Signal Processing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Signal Processing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Signal Processing in the UK excluding London

Digital Signal Processing
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 Digital Signal Processing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
South East +23 2 £593 +35.93% 17
Midlands +24 1 £550 -4.35% 3
West Midlands +17 1 £550 -4.35% 2
East of England +11 1 - - 13
Digital Signal Processing
UK

Digital Signal Processing
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:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Simulink
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DSP Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Process Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (75.00%) VHDL
3 2 (50.00%) FPGA
4 1 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Signal Processing
2 2 (50.00%) FPGA Design
2 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (25.00%) Physics
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) MATLAB
2 2 (50.00%) C
2 2 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) Embedded C
2 2 (50.00%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Firmware
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Xilinx