Cadence
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Cadence products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cadence over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Cadence Design Systems.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 641 690
Rank change year-on-year +126 +49 -74
Contract jobs citing Cadence 71 81 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.38% 0.31% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 53 85
10th Percentile £400 £413 £403
25th Percentile £413 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £608
90th Percentile £737 £765 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £470
% change year-on-year -4.55% +17.02% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.17 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.92 - £39.25
75th Percentile £50.00 - £60.56
90th Percentile £52.25 - £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.33 - -

All Vendors
UK

Cadence is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,620 25,725 35,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.67% 42.85% 39.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,558 17,221 23,382
10th Percentile £262 £270 £288
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,096 709 893
10th Percentile £12.07 £15.24 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.00 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.15 £43.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.49% +104.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £46.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% -0.70%

Cadence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cadence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cadence in the UK

Cadence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cadence in the UK

Cadence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cadence over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cadence in the UK

Cadence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cadence in the UK

Cadence
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cadence over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cadence in the UK

Cadence
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cadence within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England +105 52 £600 +4.35% 88
UK excluding London +58 33 £525 -4.55% 72
London +97 29 £430 -31.20% 23
Work from Home +110 17 £450 -25.00% 35
Scotland +29 15 £450 +7.78% 6
North of England +32 7 £740 +48.00% 10
North West +22 7 £740 - 5
East of England +14 4 £625 +4.17% 22
South East +3 4 £556 -11.00% 23
West Midlands +26 2 £613 +11.36% 7
Midlands +20 2 £613 +9.38% 8
South West +20 1 £600 +9.09% 2

Cadence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.04%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (11.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (9.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.41%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.90%) Power Platform
2 11 (15.49%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (12.68%) Azure
4 4 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.23%) AWS
6 2 (2.82%) GCP
6 2 (2.82%) GitHub
6 2 (2.82%) SaaS
7 1 (1.41%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.41%) Smartsheet
7 1 (1.41%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.45%) Kerberos
2 2 (2.82%) DNS
2 2 (2.82%) Firewall
2 2 (2.82%) HTTP
2 2 (2.82%) Internet
2 2 (2.82%) SSL
2 2 (2.82%) VPN
3 1 (1.41%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.45%) Power BI
1 6 (8.45%) SQL Server
1 6 (8.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 6 (8.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (1.41%) Metadata
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (15.49%) JIRA
2 8 (11.27%) Git
3 7 (9.86%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.45%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.82%) Postman
5 2 (2.82%) Subversion
General
1 26 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 20 (28.17%) Finance
3 10 (14.08%) Public Sector
4 9 (12.68%) Retail
5 8 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (9.86%) Legal
7 5 (7.04%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (5.63%) Marketing
8 4 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (4.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (4.23%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.82%) Banking
10 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.41%) Advertising
11 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (19.72%) Analyst
2 10 (14.08%) Lead
3 9 (12.68%) Business Analyst
4 8 (11.27%) Programme Manager
5 7 (9.86%) Project Manager
5 7 (9.86%) Senior
5 7 (9.86%) Verification Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (8.45%) Developer
7 5 (7.04%) DevOps Manager
8 4 (5.63%) Senior Manager
9 2 (2.82%) Administrator
9 2 (2.82%) Development Manager
9 2 (2.82%) Finance Business Analyst
9 2 (2.82%) IT Manager
9 2 (2.82%) Release Manager
9 2 (2.82%) SAP Business Analyst
9 2 (2.82%) SAP Financial Analyst
9 2 (2.82%) SAP Financial Business Analyst
9 2 (2.82%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.27%) JSON
2 6 (8.45%) LDAP
2 6 (8.45%) OpenID
2 6 (8.45%) RESTful
2 6 (8.45%) Web Services
2 6 (8.45%) XML
3 2 (2.82%) YAML
4 1 (1.41%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) FPGA
2 6 (8.45%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (7.04%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (7.04%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.23%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.82%) ASIC
6 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.82%) Verilog
7 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.41%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.41%) FMCG
7 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.41%) Life Science
7 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.63%) Linux
2 2 (2.82%) Unix
3 1 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (45.07%) Agile
2 15 (21.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (19.72%) Project Management
4 13 (18.31%) DevOps
4 13 (18.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (16.90%) Roadmaps
6 11 (15.49%) Coaching
7 10 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (14.08%) Scrum
8 9 (12.68%) Business Analysis
8 9 (12.68%) Data Analysis
8 9 (12.68%) Service Design
8 9 (12.68%) User Experience
9 8 (11.27%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (11.27%) OO
9 8 (11.27%) Programme Governance
9 8 (11.27%) Test Automation
10 7 (9.86%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (9.86%) Data Modelling
10 7 (9.86%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.27%) C
2 6 (8.45%) C#
2 6 (8.45%) Go
2 6 (8.45%) PowerShell
2 6 (8.45%) Python
2 6 (8.45%) T-SQL
3 4 (5.63%) Bash
4 2 (2.82%) Assembly Language
4 2 (2.82%) C++
4 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.82%) SQL
4 2 (2.82%) SystemVerilog
4 2 (2.82%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (8.45%) Degree
2 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.23%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.82%) CISA
3 2 (2.82%) CISM
3 2 (2.82%) CISSP
4 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) SLA
2 4 (5.63%) PMO
3 3 (4.23%) NIST
4 2 (2.82%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.41%) GRC
5 1 (1.41%) GxP
5 1 (1.41%) NCSC
5 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.82%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (19.72%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.45%) iManage
2 6 (8.45%) SAP
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle
3 2 (2.82%) Synopsys
3 2 (2.82%) Xilinx
4 1 (1.41%) Google
4 1 (1.41%) Planview