Digital Signal Processing Contracts in England

Digital Signal Processing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Digital Signal Processing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Signal Processing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 538 639
Rank change year-on-year +61 +101 +136
Contract jobs citing Digital Signal Processing 8 4 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.011% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.012% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £581 £530 £454
25th Percentile £609 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
75th Percentile £675 £605 £575
90th Percentile - £623 £590
UK median daily rate £650 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 £56.25 £54.85
Median hourly rate £73.75 £57.50 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +28.26% -2.39% +7.10%
75th Percentile £75.00 £58.75 £62.96
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £73.75 £57.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year +28.26% -2.39% +7.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Digital Signal Processing 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Digital Signal Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Digital Signal Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Signal Processing in England

Digital Signal Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Signal Processing in England.

Daily rate trend for Digital Signal Processing in England

Digital Signal Processing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Signal Processing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Signal Processing in England

Digital Signal Processing
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 Digital Signal Processing within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +48 4 £650 +9.70% 58
East of England +31 2 - - 50
South West - 2 - - 34
Digital Signal Processing
UK

Digital Signal Processing
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:

Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Rational Statemate
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) FPGA Developer
1 3 (37.50%) FPGA Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) NumPy
1 1 (12.50%) Pandas
1 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Algorithms
2 3 (37.50%) FPGA
2 3 (37.50%) Verilog
2 3 (37.50%) VHDL
3 1 (12.50%) CUDA
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Signal Processing
2 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 2 (25.00%) Application Security
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Data Science
5 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) Model Validation
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 1 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) MATLAB
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) C++
2 3 (37.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Algorithmics
1 3 (37.50%) Intel