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 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 200 257
Rank change year-on-year +6 +57 -37
Contract jobs citing Signal Processing 6 15 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.10% 0.26% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.30% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile £536 - -
25th Percentile £553 £228 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £241 -
Median % change year-on-year +146.00% - -
75th Percentile £620 £313 -
90th Percentile £629 £476 -
England median daily rate £550 £436 £556
% change year-on-year +26.18% -21.64% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.91 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.35% - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £58.91 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.84% +7.10% +10.00%

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 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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
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 17 June 2024. 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
Thames Valley +12 4 - - 3
Oxfordshire - 4 - -
Hampshire -20 1 £635 +170.21% 7
Surrey - 1 £550 - 20
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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
1 4 (66.67%) Subversion
General
1 4 (66.67%) Aerospace
1 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Embedded Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DSP Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Process Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (66.67%) Device Driver
3 2 (33.33%) VHDL
4 1 (16.67%) FPGA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Validation
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Defect Tracking
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Software Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Signal Processing
4 1 (16.67%) FPGA Design
4 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 1 (16.67%) Physics
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C
1 6 (100.00%) C++
1 6 (100.00%) MATLAB
2 4 (66.67%) Assembly Language
2 4 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) Embedded C
3 2 (33.33%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 4 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 4 (66.67%) PhD
3 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) JTAG
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Firmware
2 5 (83.33%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Xilinx