The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term VHDL in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VHDL 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
Rank 78 85 95
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +10
Permanent jobs citing VHDL 6 5 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.560% 0.367% 0.382%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.948% 1.253% 1.319%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 5
Average salary £100,000 £34,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+194.11% -9.33%
UK excluding London average salary £43,000 £38,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+11.68% -3.75%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
308 399 455
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 28.76% 29.30% 29.00%
Number of salaries quoted 189 297 310
Average salary £40,000 £36,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,050 £22,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,900 £50,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
VHDL
Scotland

VHDL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing VHDL across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Edinburgh VHDL Jobs Demand Trend

VHDL
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VHDL across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh VHDL Salary Trend

VHDL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VHDL across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Edinburgh VHDL Salary Histogram

VHDL
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing VHDL 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 IT job ads sampled that cited VHDL.

1 7 (87.50%) ASIC
1 7 (87.50%) Verilog
2 6 (75.00%) Degree
3 5 (62.50%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 4 (50.00%) Marketing
4 4 (50.00%) Wireless
4 4 (50.00%) Electronics
4 4 (50.00%) C++
4 4 (50.00%) Ethernet
5 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Assembly Language
6 1 (12.50%) Firmware
6 1 (12.50%) Perl
6 1 (12.50%) Python
6 1 (12.50%) C
6 1 (12.50%) Validation

VHDL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing VHDL also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited VHDL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Wireless
1 4 (50.00%) Ethernet
General
1 4 (50.00%) Marketing
1 4 (50.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Digital Design Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Senior FPGA Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Senior Design Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Design Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C++ Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C++ Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior C++ Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) ASIC
1 7 (87.50%) Verilog
2 5 (62.50%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) Assembly Language
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Degree