ASIC Contracts in the UK excluding London

Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term ASIC in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ASIC over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 454 490
Rank change year-on-year +76 +36 -79
Contract jobs citing ASIC 8 2 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.009% 0.049%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.026% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £494 - -
25th Percentile £544 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £625 £750 -
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile £36.63 £57.71 £50.85
25th Percentile £39.06 £59.13 -
Median hourly rate £46.25 £64.34 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.11% +14.89% +12.00%
75th Percentile £56.56 £67.96 -
90th Percentile £60.88 £68.43 -
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £64.34 £56.00
% change year-on-year -28.11% +14.89% +12.00%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

ASIC is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,947 7,647 9,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.18% 32.53% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,557 5,163 6,728
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £614 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 435 456
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.36
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +9.64% -16.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £45.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.13% -18.24% +4.90%

ASIC
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ASIC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ASIC in the UK excluding London

ASIC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ASIC in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ASIC in the UK excluding London

ASIC
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ASIC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ASIC in the UK excluding London

ASIC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ASIC in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ASIC in the UK excluding London

ASIC
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ASIC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for ASIC in the UK excluding London

ASIC
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASIC within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
East of England +9 6 £625 - 25
North of England - 1 £475 - 1
North West - 1 £475 - 1
Scotland - 1 - - 5
ASIC
UK

ASIC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (37.50%) Subversion
3 1 (12.50%) LabVIEW
General
1 2 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (12.50%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Verification Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analogue Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analogue IC Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analogue IC Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) ASIC Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) ASIC Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Electronics Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Electronics Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IC Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Electronics Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Product Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Product Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) JSON
1 4 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Verilog
2 4 (50.00%) FPGA
3 3 (37.50%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (12.50%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (12.50%) Derivative
4 1 (12.50%) Smartphone
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (50.00%) Validation
2 3 (37.50%) OO
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
2 3 (37.50%) UVM
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Electronic Design Automation
3 1 (12.50%) FPGA Design
3 1 (12.50%) IC Design
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
3 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Change
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
3 1 (12.50%) Yield Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SystemVerilog
2 5 (62.50%) Bash
2 5 (62.50%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) Tcl
3 3 (37.50%) Assembly Language
3 3 (37.50%) C
3 3 (37.50%) C++
3 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) EMIR
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Cadence
2 3 (37.50%) Synopsys
2 3 (37.50%) Xilinx
3 1 (12.50%) Mentor Graphics