North West VHDL Jobs

This section looks at the demand for VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VHDL over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Blackburn Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheadle Cheshire City of London Crawley Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Lancashire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newton Abbot North Wales North West North Yorkshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Saffron Walden Scotland Somerset South East South West Southampton St Asaph Staines Stirling Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton UK Wales Warrington Watford West Lothian West Sussex Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	251	252
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching permanent IT job ads	19	27
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	1.122 %	1.418 %
Salaries quoted	13	27
Average minimum salary	£34,385	£35,593
Average salary	£35,846	£38,370
% change on same period last year	-6.57 %
Average maximum salary	£37,308	£41,148
UK excluding London average salary	£39,394	£38,117
% change on same period last year	+3.34 %
Miscellaneous North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	1693	1904
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.911 %	0.794 %
Salaries quoted	1451	1590
Average minimum salary	£33,293	£33,586
Average salary	£36,598	£37,111
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Average maximum salary	£39,903	£40,635
UK excluding London average salary	£37,872	£39,233
% change on same period last year	-3.46 %
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VHDL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VHDL across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

VHDL
Salary Trend

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

VHDL
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VHDL across the North West region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

VHDL
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VHDL within the North West region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Merseyside	-	7	£30,250	-
Lancashire	-	5	£40,000	-
Manchester	-3	3	£40,000	+2.82 %
Cheshire	-8	2	£32,500	+14.03 %

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VHDL
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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 20 (86.96 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 15 (65.22 %) Electronics 3 11 (47.83 %) C 4 10 (43.48 %) Xilinx 5 9 (39.13 %) Security Cleared 6 8 (34.78 %) C++ 7 6 (26.09 %) EMC 8 5 (21.74 %) Embedded C 8 5 (21.74 %) Pensions 9 4 (17.39 %) JTAG 9 4 (17.39 %) SC Cleared 10 3 (13.04 %) CPLD 10 3 (13.04 %) Military 11 2 (8.696 %) Embedded C++ 11 2 (8.696 %) Eclipse

11 2 (8.696 %) Ethernet 11 2 (8.696 %) SNMP 12 1 (4.348 %) UML 12 1 (4.348 %) Assembly Language 12 1 (4.348 %) ASIC 12 1 (4.348 %) MATLAB 12 1 (4.348 %) Simulink 12 1 (4.348 %) Automotive 12 1 (4.348 %) Education 12 1 (4.348 %) Government 12 1 (4.348 %) Health 12 1 (4.348 %) Verilog 12 1 (4.348 %) Insurance 12 1 (4.348 %) Mentor Graphics

VHDL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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.

Applications 1 1 (4.348 %) MATLAB 1 1 (4.348 %) Simulink	Communications & Networking 1 2 (8.696 %) Ethernet 1 2 (8.696 %) SNMP
Development Applications 1 2 (8.696 %) Eclipse	General 1 15 (65.22 %) Electronics 2 5 (21.74 %) Pensions 3 3 (13.04 %) Military 4 1 (4.348 %) Insurance 4 1 (4.348 %) Automotive 4 1 (4.348 %) Education 4 1 (4.348 %) Government 4 1 (4.348 %) Health
Job Titles 1 8 (34.78 %) Hardware Engineer 1 8 (34.78 %) Electronics Engineer 2 3 (13.04 %) Software Engineer 2 3 (13.04 %) Design Engineer 2 3 (13.04 %) Team Leader 3 1 (4.348 %) Junior 3 1 (4.348 %) Embedded Software Engineer 3 1 (4.348 %) Systems Engineer 3 1 (4.348 %) Junior Systems Engineer 3 1 (4.348 %) FPGA Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 20 (86.96 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 3 (13.04 %) CPLD 3 1 (4.348 %) ASIC 3 1 (4.348 %) Verilog
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (39.13 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (17.39 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (4.348 %) UML	Programming Languages 1 11 (47.83 %) C 2 8 (34.78 %) C++ 3 5 (21.74 %) Embedded C 4 2 (8.696 %) Embedded C++ 5 1 (4.348 %) Assembly Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (17.39 %) JTAG	Vendors 1 10 (43.48 %) Xilinx 2 6 (26.09 %) EMC 3 1 (4.348 %) Mentor Graphics