RISC-V Contract Job Trends in Guildford

RISC-V
Surrey > Guildford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term RISC-V in contract job vacancies in Guildford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RISC-V over the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RISC-V 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Guildford 1.96% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Surrey median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
Surrey median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Generic Skills
Guildford

RISC-V 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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 22 8 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 43.14% 23.53% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 9
10th Percentile £200 £253 £365
25th Percentile £238 £292 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -30.43% +10.58%
75th Percentile - £438 £850
90th Percentile - £600 -
Surrey median daily rate £480 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +37.14% -30.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £11.71
Median hourly rate £67.50 £28.00 £12.43
Median % change year-on-year +141.07% +125.35% -
75th Percentile £70.00 - £13.14
90th Percentile - - £35.26
Surrey median hourly rate £67.50 £24.42 £18.35
% change year-on-year +176.41% +33.08% -70.64%

RISC-V
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C++ Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (100.00%) MicroBlaze
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware