Electronic Design Automation Contract Job Trends in Essex

Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Electronic Design Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Electronic Design Automation 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 1.58% - 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% - 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £72 - -
East of England median daily rate £72 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £67.75
Median hourly rate £71.00 - £70.50
75th Percentile - - £73.25
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £71.00 - £57.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 191 84 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 75.49% 95.45% 82.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 39 94
10th Percentile £300 £187 £194
25th Percentile £338 £315 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £505 £476 £551
90th Percentile £588 £500 £600
East of England median daily rate £495 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 18 52
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £10.59
25th Percentile £16.08 £15.19 £15.93
Median hourly rate £20.51 £32.50 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.89% -43.23% +28.57%
75th Percentile £44.64 £48.30 £80.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £144.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year -31.56% -8.13% +81.82%

Electronic Design Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Electronic Design Automation job vacancy trend in Essex

Electronic Design Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Electronic Design Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Electronic Design Automation

Electronic Design Automation
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Basildon - 1 £72 - 1
Electronic Design Automation
East of England

Electronic Design Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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