Signal Processing Contracts in the South West

Signal Processing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 152 161
Rank change year-on-year +43 +9 +8
Contract jobs citing Signal Processing 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.21% 0.032% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.039% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £538
75th Percentile - - £556
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £563 £465 £436
% change year-on-year +20.97% +6.68% -21.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +3.57% +18.84% +7.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,678 2,591 3,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.64% 83.07% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 1,644 2,202
10th Percentile £220 £263 £321
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +6.90%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 356 256
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.47 £24.09
25th Percentile £18.51 £34.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.08% -7.69% +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

Signal Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Signal Processing in the South West

Signal Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Signal Processing in the South West

Signal Processing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Signal Processing in the South West

Signal Processing
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Gloucestershire - 3 £550 - 8
Bristol - 1 - - 9
Signal Processing
England

Signal Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (75.00%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Rational Statemate
General
1 2 (50.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) CUDA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Vision
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Edge Computing
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Memory Management
3 1 (25.00%) MLOps
3 1 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree