ASIC Contracts in England

Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term ASIC in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ASIC over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 522 638
Rank change year-on-year +48 +116 +117
Contract jobs citing ASIC 4 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.025% 0.004%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.048% 0.081% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile £105 £506 -
25th Percentile £164 £581 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £625 £750
Median % change year-on-year -56.80% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £382 £641 £775
90th Percentile £445 £685 -
UK median daily rate £270 £625 £750
% change year-on-year -56.80% -16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -14.81% +20.54%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £46.25 £67.50
% change year-on-year +51.35% -31.48% +20.54%

All Generic Skills
England

ASIC falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,295 11,153 16,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.08% 30.62% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,419 7,312 11,284
10th Percentile £300 £266 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.93% +4.09%
75th Percentile £674 £675 £697
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 817 571
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.45 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.91 £34.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% +51.21% -16.66%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £64.38
90th Percentile £84.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £31.50 £22.26
% change year-on-year +0.83% +41.54% -19.07%

ASIC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ASIC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ASIC in England

ASIC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ASIC in England.

Daily rate trend for ASIC in England

ASIC
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ASIC in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ASIC in England

ASIC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ASIC in England.

Hourly rate trend for ASIC in England

ASIC
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASIC within the England region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. 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
East of England +19 3 £270 -56.80% 33
South East - 1 - - 15
ASIC
UK

ASIC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (25.00%) Law
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Design Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Verification Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Hardware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (50.00%) FPGA
1 2 (50.00%) VHDL
2 1 (25.00%) State Machine
2 1 (25.00%) Verilog
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) Tcl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) DO-254