Electronic Design Automation Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Electronic Design Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 91 100
Rank change year-on-year -16 +9 +22
Contract jobs citing Electronic Design Automation 4 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.18% 0.082% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.093% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £72 - -
England median daily rate £72 £425 -
% change year-on-year -83.06% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 - £63.75
75th Percentile - - £74.56
90th Percentile - - £75.00
England median hourly rate £71.00 - £63.75

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

Electronic Design Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,726 1,078 1,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.70% 88.14% 83.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 848 513 584
10th Percentile £192 £200 £200
25th Percentile £399 £365 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £551
90th Percentile £679 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 247 538
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.51 £17.97 £15.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.10 £82.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

Electronic Design Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Electronic Design Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Electronic Design Automation job vacancy trend in the East of England

Electronic Design Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Electronic Design Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Electronic Design Automation

Electronic Design Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Electronic Design Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Electronic Design Automation

Electronic Design Automation
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Design Automation within the East of England region over the 6 months to 24 July 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex - 4 £72 - 2
Electronic Design Automation
England

Electronic Design Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
General
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) FPGA
2 3 (75.00%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (75.00%) Verilog
2 3 (75.00%) VHDL
3 1 (25.00%) Analogue Electronics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (75.00%) FPGA Design
1 3 (75.00%) Image Processing
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) UVM
2 1 (25.00%) Physics
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Schematic Capture
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PhD
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) DO-254
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (75.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Siemens
1 4 (100.00%) Xilinx
2 3 (75.00%) Actel
2 3 (75.00%) Lattice Semiconductor
2 3 (75.00%) Microsemi