Verification Engineer Contracts in England

Verification Engineer
UK > England

The median Verification Engineer daily rate in England is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 621 781
Rank change year-on-year +86 +160 -131
Contract jobs requiring a Verification Engineer 15 15 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.040% 0.032% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.034% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile £481 £423 £433
25th Percentile £525 £438 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.68% -5.00% +10.50%
75th Percentile £638 £488 £578
90th Percentile - - £629
UK median daily rate £588 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +23.68% -13.64% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile - £53.38 -
25th Percentile £86.25 £58.44 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% - -
75th Percentile £88.75 £70.31 -
90th Percentile - £82.13 -
UK median hourly rate £87.50 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year +40.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Verification Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Verification Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Verification Engineer in England

Verification Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Verification Engineer in England

Verification Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Verification Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Verification Engineer in England

Verification Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Verification Engineer in England

Verification Engineer
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 Verification Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London - 8 £475 -
East of England +7 7 £625 - 4
Verification Engineer
UK

Verification Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 June 2024, Verification Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Verification Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (80.00%) FPGA
1 12 (80.00%) UVM
2 11 (73.33%) Cadence
3 9 (60.00%) FPGA Design
4 8 (53.33%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (53.33%) Data Protection
5 5 (33.33%) Verilog
5 5 (33.33%) Validation
5 5 (33.33%) C
5 5 (33.33%) C++
5 5 (33.33%) SystemVerilog
6 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (26.67%) Bash
6 4 (26.67%) Unix
6 4 (26.67%) Linux
6 4 (26.67%) Python
6 4 (26.67%) Tcl
6 4 (26.67%) ASIC
6 4 (26.67%) YAML
6 4 (26.67%) JSON
7 3 (20.00%) JIRA
7 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
7 3 (20.00%) Xilinx
7 3 (20.00%) Git
7 3 (20.00%) Synopsys
7 3 (20.00%) Project Management
7 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
7 3 (20.00%) Subversion
7 3 (20.00%) Assembly Language
7 3 (20.00%) OO

Verification Engineer Skill Set
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:

Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
1 3 (20.00%) Subversion
2 2 (13.33%) CppUnit
2 2 (13.33%) PVCS
2 2 (13.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (13.33%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) JSON
1 4 (26.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) FPGA
2 8 (53.33%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (33.33%) Verilog
4 4 (26.67%) ASIC
5 3 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
1 4 (26.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) UVM
2 9 (60.00%) FPGA Design
3 8 (53.33%) Data Protection
4 5 (33.33%) Validation
5 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (20.00%) OO
6 3 (20.00%) Project Management
6 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Code Coverage
7 2 (13.33%) Requirements Analysis
7 2 (13.33%) Test Planning
7 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Verification and Validation
8 1 (6.67%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) C
1 5 (33.33%) C++
1 5 (33.33%) SystemVerilog
2 4 (26.67%) Bash
2 4 (26.67%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) Tcl
3 3 (20.00%) Assembly Language
3 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Cadence
2 3 (20.00%) Synopsys
2 3 (20.00%) Xilinx
3 2 (13.33%) VMware