VHDL Contracts in Scotland

VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VHDL in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VHDL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 124 162
Rank change year-on-year +13 +38 +6
Contract jobs citing VHDL 5 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.31% 0.23% 0.035%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.81% 0.68% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £376 - -
25th Percentile £397 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £500
75th Percentile £572 - -
90th Percentile £589 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year +39.49% -4.42% +14.29%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

VHDL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for VHDL in Scotland

VHDL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for VHDL in Scotland

VHDL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VHDL in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VHDL in Scotland

VHDL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for VHDL in Scotland

VHDL
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VHDL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Glasgow - 3 £550 -
Edinburgh +2 2 £425 - 6
VHDL
UK

VHDL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (40.00%) Electronics
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) FPGA
2 2 (40.00%) Verilog
3 1 (20.00%) PCIe
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) FPGA Design
2 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SystemVerilog
1 2 (40.00%) Tcl
2 1 (20.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) DO-254
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsemi
1 2 (40.00%) Xilinx
2 1 (20.00%) Altera
2 1 (20.00%) Intel