UVM Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring UVM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing UVM 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 1.28% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £65 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -84.71% -5.56% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

UVM 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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 199 148 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 84.68% 90.80% 82.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 70 76
10th Percentile £260 £147 £213
25th Percentile £390 £225 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £325 £494
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -34.18% +9.72%
75th Percentile £519 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £603 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 17 17
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 £11.78
25th Percentile £13.96 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £18.20 £24.18 £15.63
Median % change year-on-year -24.73% +54.70% +2.49%
75th Percentile £28.83 £52.31 £18.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £78.47 £23.54
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -22.62% -10.76% +16.69%

UVM
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UVM within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 24 January 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
County Antrim - 3 - - 3
UVM
UK

UVM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Verification Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DSP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) RF Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Verification Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) PCIe
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Adaptive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) MATLAB