Signal Processing Contracts in the South East

Signal Processing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Signal Processing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Signal Processing 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 150 199 209
Rank change year-on-year +49 +10 +49
Contract jobs citing Signal Processing 9 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.30% 0.11% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.13% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 7
10th Percentile £450 £536 -
25th Percentile £463 £553 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £593 £235
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +152.13% -
75th Percentile £675 £620 £261
90th Percentile - £629 £344
England median daily rate £625 £500 £259
% change year-on-year +25.00% +93.06% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £54.85
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year - +10.35% -
75th Percentile - - £62.96
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £67.75 £65.45
% change year-on-year +18.08% +3.51% +19.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Signal Processing 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Signal Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Signal Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Signal Processing in the South East

Signal Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Signal Processing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Signal Processing in the South East

Signal Processing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Signal Processing in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Signal Processing in the South East

Signal Processing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Signal Processing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Signal Processing in the South East

Signal Processing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Signal Processing within the South East 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
Hampshire +34 9 £525 -17.32% 18
Signal Processing
England

Signal Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
3 3 (33.33%) Developer
3 3 (33.33%) FPGA Developer
3 3 (33.33%) FPGA Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Data Scientist
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) NumPy
1 1 (11.11%) Pandas
1 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Algorithms
2 5 (55.56%) Device Driver
2 5 (55.56%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (55.56%) IoT
3 3 (33.33%) FPGA
3 3 (33.33%) Verilog
3 3 (33.33%) VHDL
4 1 (11.11%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) Architectural Design
1 5 (55.56%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Enablement
1 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making
1 5 (55.56%) Device Driver Development
1 5 (55.56%) Multithreading
1 5 (55.56%) Project Management
1 5 (55.56%) SDLC
2 4 (44.44%) Digital Signal Processing
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 1 (11.11%) Data Science
4 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
4 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Embedded C
2 4 (44.44%) C
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) C++
3 3 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Algorithmics
1 3 (33.33%) Intel