VHDL Contracts in the South East

VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VHDL in contract job vacancies in the South East. 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 151 166 219
Rank change year-on-year +15 +53 +41
Contract jobs citing VHDL 8 39 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.27% 0.70% 0.052%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.79% 2.46% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £555 £490 -
25th Percentile £600 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £593 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% - -
75th Percentile £675 £670 -
90th Percentile - £733 -
England median daily rate £625 £550 £494
% change year-on-year +13.64% +11.39% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 33 1
10th Percentile £46.88 - -
25th Percentile £49.69 £53.40 -
Median hourly rate £61.25 £57.35 £57.76
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -0.71% -
75th Percentile £69.69 £61.30 -
90th Percentile £70.63 - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year +39.49% -4.42% -14.29%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,009 1,583 1,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 33.52% 28.48% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 936 1,323
10th Percentile £211 £205 £213
25th Percentile £360 £363 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £661 £688 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 154 90
10th Percentile £16.95 £11.74 £18.23
25th Percentile £23.50 £18.35 £20.48
Median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%
75th Percentile £64.13 £61.30 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

VHDL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for VHDL in the South East

VHDL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for VHDL in the South East

VHDL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for VHDL in the South East

VHDL
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 VHDL 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 -5 6 £650 -6.14% 6
Kent - 1 - - 5
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 8
Thames Valley - 1 - - 17
VHDL
England

VHDL
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (12.50%) RS-232
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
1 1 (12.50%) Avionics
1 1 (12.50%) Electronics
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Firmware Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) FPGA Developer
1 3 (37.50%) FPGA Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Verilog
2 5 (62.50%) FPGA
3 3 (37.50%) Algorithms
4 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Digital Signal Processing
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
2 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 3 (37.50%) Signal Processing
2 3 (37.50%) SysML
2 3 (37.50%) UML
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) C++
3 3 (37.50%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) SystemVerilog
3 3 (37.50%) Tcl
4 2 (25.00%) C
5 1 (12.50%) C#
5 1 (12.50%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Intel
2 3 (37.50%) Algorithmics
2 3 (37.50%) Atlassian
2 3 (37.50%) Xilinx
3 1 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Siemens