VHDL Contracts in England

VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VHDL in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VHDL over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 473 621
Rank change year-on-year +32 +148 +135
Contract jobs citing VHDL 32 68 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.19% 0.055%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.39% 0.60% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 6
10th Percentile £556 £438 £444
25th Percentile £616 £488 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £494
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +11.39% -1.25%
75th Percentile £675 £620 £569
90th Percentile £681 £705 £579
UK median daily rate £638 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +15.91% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 58 7
10th Percentile £62.50 - £51.00
25th Percentile £65.94 £53.40 £55.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 £57.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.49% -4.42% -17.24%
75th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year +39.49% -4.42% -17.24%

All Generic Skills
England

VHDL 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 8,216 11,267 16,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.32% 30.70% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,342 7,368 11,201
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 833 554
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.45 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.91 £35.50 £22.21
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +59.87% -16.21%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £62.40
90th Percentile £82.50 £71.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.91 £34.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -6.16% +54.55% -18.46%

VHDL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VHDL in England

VHDL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VHDL in England

VHDL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for VHDL in England

VHDL
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VHDL in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for VHDL in England

VHDL
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 VHDL within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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 +26 14 £625 - 82
South East +11 7 £650 +9.70% 56
London - 6 £675 - 14
Midlands +14 3 £550 - 24
South West +36 2 - - 45
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 11
West Midlands +15 1 - - 10
VHDL
UK

VHDL
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.13%) Azure
1 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Ethernet
2 1 (3.13%) RS-232
2 1 (3.13%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Git
2 5 (15.63%) Subversion
3 2 (6.25%) JIRA
4 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.13%) Redmine
General
1 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 3 (9.38%) Electronics
3 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Marketing
3 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.25%) Aerospace
4 2 (6.25%) Military
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Avionics
5 1 (3.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 24 (75.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) Design Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Firmware Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Developer
4 3 (9.38%) FPGA Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Network Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Senior FPGA Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Embedded Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Firmware Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Digital Hardware Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Hardware Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Hardware Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 31 (96.88%) FPGA
2 20 (62.50%) Verilog
3 3 (9.38%) Algorithms
3 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
3 3 (9.38%) PCIe
4 2 (6.25%) Life Science
5 1 (3.13%) ASIC
5 1 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (3.13%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) FPGA Design
2 14 (43.75%) Signal Processing
3 11 (34.38%) UVM
4 6 (18.75%) Test Scripting
5 3 (9.38%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (9.38%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (9.38%) Digital Signal Processing
5 3 (9.38%) Machine Learning
5 3 (9.38%) Migration
5 3 (9.38%) Programme Management
5 3 (9.38%) Prototyping
5 3 (9.38%) Risk Analysis
5 3 (9.38%) Risk Management
5 3 (9.38%) Test Planning
6 2 (6.25%) Agile
6 2 (6.25%) Application Security
6 2 (6.25%) OpenUP
6 2 (6.25%) Physics
6 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (46.88%) SystemVerilog
2 12 (37.50%) Python
3 10 (31.25%) C
4 8 (25.00%) Tcl
5 4 (12.50%) C++
6 3 (9.38%) Java
7 1 (3.13%) C#
7 1 (3.13%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Degree
2 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) Master's Degree
4 3 (9.38%) PhD
5 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) DO-254
1 1 (3.13%) ECSS
1 1 (3.13%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Firmware
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Intel
1 15 (46.88%) Xilinx
2 8 (25.00%) Microsemi
3 3 (9.38%) Algorithmics
3 3 (9.38%) SAP
4 2 (6.25%) Lattice Semiconductor
5 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.13%) Siemens