Design for Testability (DFT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Design for Test skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Design for Test over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 888 935 1195
Rank change year-on-year +47 +260 -294
Permanent jobs citing Design for Test 14 37 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.037% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.038% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 6
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £33,320
25th Percentile £47,250 £51,250 £34,053
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,242 £42,750
Median % change year-on-year +35.77% +29.22% +14.00%
75th Percentile £110,000 £57,946 £53,500
90th Percentile - - £65,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £48,750 £36,390
% change year-on-year +53.85% +33.97% -2.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Design for Test is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Design for Test
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Design for Test as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Design for Test in the UK

Design for Test
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Design for Test.

Salary trend for Design for Test in the UK

Design for Test
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design for Test over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Design for Test in the UK

Design for Test
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design for Test within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -3 13 £75,000 +53.85% 30
England +82 11 £100,000 +90.48% 27
Work from Home +73 7 £64,500 +43.33% 10
South East -5 6 £100,000 +90.48% 11
South West - 4 - - 5
Wales - 2 £45,000 - 1
West Midlands +11 1 - -
Midlands -11 1 - -

Design for Test
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Windchill
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (7.14%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
1 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 3 (21.43%) Broadband
3 2 (14.29%) RS-232
3 2 (14.29%) RS-422
3 2 (14.29%) RS-485
4 1 (7.14%) Bluetooth
4 1 (7.14%) Firewall
4 1 (7.14%) LAN
4 1 (7.14%) LTE
4 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.14%) WAN
4 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (7.14%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) Subversion
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 8 (57.14%) Electronics
2 5 (35.71%) Manufacturing
3 4 (28.57%) Military
4 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Finance
5 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
6 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Electronics Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Head of IT
3 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.14%) MATLAB Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Electronics Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Hardware Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) FPGA
2 6 (42.86%) PCIe
3 4 (28.57%) IoT
4 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
4 3 (21.43%) VLSI
5 2 (14.29%) Driving Licence
5 2 (14.29%) VHDL
6 1 (7.14%) Acoustics
6 1 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (7.14%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Design for Manufacturing
2 5 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (28.57%) Change Management
3 4 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
3 4 (28.57%) PLM
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (21.43%) Electronic Design Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Schematic Capture
4 3 (21.43%) Validation
5 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.14%) OO
6 1 (7.14%) OOD
6 1 (7.14%) Performance Management
6 1 (7.14%) Physics
6 1 (7.14%) Project Management
6 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Perl
2 3 (21.43%) Tcl
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) C
3 2 (14.29%) Embedded C
3 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.14%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) HNC
3 2 (14.29%) HND
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) JTAG
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) EMC
1 4 (28.57%) Intel
1 4 (28.57%) Mentor Graphics
1 4 (28.57%) Siemens
1 4 (28.57%) Xilinx
2 3 (21.43%) Synopsys
3 2 (14.29%) Altera
3 2 (14.29%) Cadence
3 2 (14.29%) Lattice Semiconductor
4 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.14%) HP
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Thales