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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 160 208
Rank change year-on-year +13 +48 +59
Contract jobs citing VHDL 6 40 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.70% 0.087%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.61% 2.46% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - £485 -
25th Percentile £625 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 -
90th Percentile - £735 -
England median daily rate £650 £525 £456
% change year-on-year +23.81% +15.07% -17.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 33 1
Median hourly rate - £57.35 £57.76
Median % change year-on-year - -0.71% -
England median hourly rate £76.25 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year +32.96% -4.42% -

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 990 1,625 1,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 32.40% 28.46% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 950 1,327
10th Percentile £205 £210 £213
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £618 £629
90th Percentile £660 £688 £721
England median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 179 97
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.79 £16.94
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.89 £53.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.07% +0.95% +162.50%
75th Percentile £62.24 £61.30 £66.74
90th Percentile £85.50 £75.16 £75.00
England median hourly rate £33.05 £37.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -10.68% +64.55% -15.15%

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 25 June 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 -4 3 £650 -13.33% 7
Kent +1 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 4
Thames Valley - 1 - - 13
East Sussex - 1 - - 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) RS-232
General
1 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (16.67%) Avionics
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) FPGA Developer
1 3 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Hardware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Hardware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) FPGA
2 5 (83.33%) Verilog
3 3 (50.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (16.67%) ASIC
4 1 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (16.67%) State Machine
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (50.00%) Signal Processing
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
2 1 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C++
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) C
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) DO-254
1 1 (16.67%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Intel
2 3 (50.00%) Algorithmics
3 1 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (16.67%) Siemens