VHDL Contracts in the Midlands

VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 - 144
Rank change year-on-year - - +72
Contract jobs citing VHDL 4 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.16% - 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.47% - 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £508 - £439
25th Percentile £519 - £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £481
75th Percentile £694 - £514
90th Percentile £713 - £528
England median daily rate £600 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +20.00% +8.11% -16.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £71.25 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year +24.24% -4.42% +20.00%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 852 803 970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.29% 30.28% 31.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 510 645
10th Percentile £250 £272 £275
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £626 £600
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 27 32
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.07 £19.10
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.12 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.04 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.78% -30.91% +44.74%
75th Percentile £38.82 £45.25 £56.56
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.25 £90.88
England median hourly rate £31.00 £47.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -34.74% +13.10% +61.54%

VHDL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VHDL in the Midlands

VHDL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for VHDL in the Midlands

VHDL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for VHDL in the Midlands

VHDL
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VHDL within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 August 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 Midlands - 3 £600 - 3
West Midlands - 1 - - 4
VHDL
England

VHDL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (75.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Subversion
3 1 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) FPGA Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) FPGA
2 1 (25.00%) Verilog
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) FPGA Design
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Xilinx