The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Verilog in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Verilog over the 3 months to 17 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.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Verilog
Rank 510 559 583
Rank change year-on-year
+49 +24
Contract jobs citing Verilog 20 19 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.043% 0.033% 0.008%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.164% 0.133% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £275 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 4
Average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.80 £37.20 £36.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £45.00 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12228 14275 17282
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.35% 24.50% 28.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7363 8396 10253
Average daily rate £430 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £251 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 541 663 728
Average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.17% -1.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.49 £12.50 £11.32
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%

Verilog
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Verilog within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Verilog Jobs Demand Trend

Verilog
Daily Rate Trend

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

Verilog Daily Rate Trend

Verilog
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Verilog Hourly Rate Trend

Verilog
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Verilog within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +52 20 - -
South East +28 9 - -
London +26 6 - -
Berkshire +19 6 - -
City of London +17 6 - -
East of England +11 4 - -
Cambridgeshire +9 4 - -
Cambridge +5 4 - -
Hampshire -5 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -

Verilog
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Verilog 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 Verilog.

1 31 (77.50%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 21 (52.50%) VHDL
3 20 (50.00%) ASIC
4 13 (32.50%) C
5 9 (22.50%) Altera
5 9 (22.50%) Ethernet
5 9 (22.50%) Xilinx
6 7 (17.50%) Degree
6 7 (17.50%) Computer Science
6 7 (17.50%) Investment Banking
6 7 (17.50%) Linux
6 7 (17.50%) Banking
6 7 (17.50%) TCP/IP
6 7 (17.50%) Legal
6 7 (17.50%) Device Driver
7 6 (15.00%) VMware
7 6 (15.00%) ASIC Verification
7 6 (15.00%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (15.00%) Electronic Design Automation
7 6 (15.00%) Xen
7 6 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (15.00%) JTAG
7 6 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (12.50%) SystemC
9 4 (10.00%) Military
9 4 (10.00%) Electronics
9 4 (10.00%) Visualisation
10 3 (7.500%) Video Processing
10 3 (7.500%) Telecoms
10 3 (7.500%) C++

Verilog
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Verilog 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 Verilog. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 9 (22.50%) Ethernet
2 7 (17.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.500%) 3G
3 1 (2.500%) Wireless
3 1 (2.500%) 4G
General
1 7 (17.50%) Legal
1 7 (17.50%) Banking
1 7 (17.50%) Investment Banking
2 4 (10.00%) Military
2 4 (10.00%) Electronics
3 3 (7.500%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.500%) Marketing
4 1 (2.500%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) Verification Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) Designer
3 6 (15.00%) Design Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) FPGA Designer
4 5 (12.50%) FPGA Design Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Electronics Engineer
6 3 (7.500%) ASIC Design Engineer
7 1 (2.500%) Digital Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 31 (77.50%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 21 (52.50%) VHDL
3 20 (50.00%) ASIC
4 7 (17.50%) Device Driver
4 7 (17.50%) Computer Science
5 6 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (15.00%) ASIC Verification
6 5 (12.50%) SystemC
7 4 (10.00%) Visualisation
8 1 (2.500%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Linux
2 6 (15.00%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (2.500%) UNIX
3 1 (2.500%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (15.00%) Electronic Design Automation
2 3 (7.500%) Video Processing
2 3 (7.500%) IC Design
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) C
2 3 (7.500%) C++
3 1 (2.500%) Perl
3 1 (2.500%) Tcl
3 1 (2.500%) Pascal
3 1 (2.500%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) JTAG
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Xen
1 6 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Xilinx
1 9 (22.50%) Altera
2 6 (15.00%) VMware
3 2 (5.000%) Twitter
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