The first table below looks at the demand for IC Design skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IC Design over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Integrated Circuit Design (IC Design)
Rank 523 580 579
Rank change year-on-year
+57 -1
Contract jobs citing IC Design 6 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.007% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.010% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -12.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
- -12.50%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32941 39581 41270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.01% 67.87% 67.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19678 22705 23413
Average daily rate £413 £403 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.48% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 1282 1475
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%

IC Design
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing IC Design within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

IC Design Jobs Demand Trend

IC Design
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing IC Design within the UK.

IC Design Daily Rate Trend

IC Design
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing IC Design within the UK.

IC Design Hourly Rate Trend

IC Design
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IC Design within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +48 6 - -
South East - 6 - -
Berkshire - 6 - -

IC Design
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing IC Design 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 IC Design.

1 5 (55.56%) Cadence
2 3 (33.33%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 3 (33.33%) ASIC
2 3 (33.33%) Verilog
3 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
3 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) VMware ESX
4 1 (11.11%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (11.11%) Solaris
4 1 (11.11%) Subversion
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) VLAN
4 1 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (11.11%) Lync
4 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (11.11%) LDAP
4 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
4 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
4 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
4 1 (11.11%) NFS
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) Sun

IC Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing IC Design 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 IC Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (11.11%) Lync
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Designer
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 3 (33.33%) ASIC
1 3 (33.33%) Verilog
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Solaris
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (22.22%) VMware ESX
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (11.11%) NFS
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Terminal Services
2 1 (11.11%) Samba
2 1 (11.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) AppManager
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Cadence
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Sun
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) CommVault
3 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
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