The first table below looks at the demand for IC Design skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IC Design over the 3 months to 23 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 for the South East region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Integrated Circuit Design (IC Design)
Rank - - 429
Permanent jobs citing IC Design 0 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East - - 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
Average salary - - £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-9.09% +22.22%
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16052 17377 16471
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 72.94% 73.24% 70.85%
Number of salaries quoted 13037 14884 14113
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
IC Design
England

IC Design
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing IC Design across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South East IC Design Jobs Demand Trend

IC Design
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing IC Design across the South East region.

South East IC Design Salary Trend

IC Design
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited IC Design.

1 7 (70.00%) Firmware
1 7 (70.00%) Electronics
2 6 (60.00%) MPEG
2 6 (60.00%) C
2 6 (60.00%) C++
2 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) Ethernet
2 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (60.00%) Embedded C
2 6 (60.00%) Embedded C++
2 6 (60.00%) Assembly Language
2 6 (60.00%) Automotive
3 4 (40.00%) Degree
3 4 (40.00%) VHDL
3 4 (40.00%) ASIC
4 3 (30.00%) Project Management
4 3 (30.00%) Wireless
4 3 (30.00%) WLAN
4 3 (30.00%) ISO 9000
4 3 (30.00%) LAN
4 3 (30.00%) Verilog
4 3 (30.00%) Military
4 3 (30.00%) Marketing
5 1 (10.00%) Actel
5 1 (10.00%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (10.00%) Digital Signal Processing
5 1 (10.00%) Signal Processing
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Validation
5 1 (10.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array

IC Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited IC Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Ethernet
1 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (30.00%) Wireless
2 3 (30.00%) WLAN
2 3 (30.00%) LAN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 7 (70.00%) Electronics
2 6 (60.00%) Automotive
3 3 (30.00%) Military
3 3 (30.00%) Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Design Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Design Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) IC Design Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Digital IC Design Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Digital Design Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior FPGA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) FPGA Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Firmware
2 6 (60.00%) MPEG
3 4 (40.00%) VHDL
3 4 (40.00%) ASIC
4 3 (30.00%) Verilog
5 1 (10.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Project Management
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (10.00%) Signal Processing
2 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) C
1 6 (60.00%) C++
1 6 (60.00%) Embedded C
1 6 (60.00%) Embedded C++
1 6 (60.00%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO 9000
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Actel