Digital Signal Processing Contracts

Digital Signal Processing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 703 847
Rank change year-on-year +121 +144 -182
Contract jobs citing Digital Signal Processing 4 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.021% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.024% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £530 £508 -
25th Percentile £538 £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 -
75th Percentile £605 £575 -
90th Percentile £623 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £49.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £54.85 £49.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.91 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% +7.10% +10.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.96 £66.25
90th Percentile - - £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £58.91 £75.00
% change year-on-year -2.39% -21.46% +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,706 54,523 81,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 89.87% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,375 37,727 57,191
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,416 1,789 1,947
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -
75th Percentile £58.70 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £19.96
% change year-on-year -2.78% +80.41% -7.83%

Digital Signal Processing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Digital Signal Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Signal Processing in the UK

Digital Signal Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Signal Processing.

Daily rate trend for Digital Signal Processing in the UK

Digital Signal Processing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Signal Processing.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Signal Processing in the UK

Digital Signal Processing
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 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 +107 4 £550 - 45
UK excluding London +63 4 £550 - 44
South East +12 2 £593 - 17
Midlands +35 1 £550 - 3
West Midlands +27 1 £550 - 3
East of England +12 1 - - 11

Digital Signal Processing
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:

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