Signal Processing Contract Job Trends in the South East

Signal Processing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Signal Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 161 187
Rank change year-on-year -19 +26 +46
Contract jobs citing Signal Processing 2 5 16
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.046% 0.15% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.17% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 10
10th Percentile - £437 £180
25th Percentile - £463 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £500 £620
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -19.35% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £675 £655
90th Percentile - - £786
England median daily rate £550 £650 £438
% change year-on-year -15.38% +48.57% +82.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £64.00 - -
Median hourly rate £69.34 - -
75th Percentile £74.67 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £71.25 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.94% +14.29% +7.69%

All Process & 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 3,629 2,988 4,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.22% 88.98% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,383 1,848 2,840
10th Percentile £226 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £517
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.40% +3.24%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £615
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 112 257
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.37 £18.30
25th Percentile £17.00 £25.56 £26.00
Median hourly rate £23.58 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.53% -22.73% +24.29%
75th Percentile £54.38 £62.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.63 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

Signal Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Signal Processing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Signal Processing job vacancy trend in the South East

Signal Processing
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Signal Processing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Signal Processing

Signal Processing
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Signal Processing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Signal Processing

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 12 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
Hampshire -22 1 - - 13
Thames Valley - 1 £850 - 15
Berkshire - 1 £850 - 8
Signal Processing
England

Signal Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Qualitative Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Automated Trading
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Market Making
1 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Systematic Trading
1 1 (50.00%) Time Series Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL