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 in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ASIC over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 429 490
Rank change year-on-year +36 +61 -50
Contract jobs citing ASIC 8 1 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.004% 0.046%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.014% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £488 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £625 £750 -
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 11
10th Percentile £38.25 - £50.85
25th Percentile £43.13 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £56.00
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 - £56.00
% change year-on-year - - +12.00%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

ASIC 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 - 6 £625 - 11
Scotland - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £475 - 2
North of England - 1 £475 - 4
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 5 (62.50%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) JIRA
3 3 (37.50%) Subversion
4 1 (12.50%) LabVIEW
General
1 3 (37.50%) Electronics
2 2 (25.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Verification Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Design Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) IC Design Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Analogue Design Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Analogue IC Design Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Analogue IC Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Design Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Digital IC Design Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Digital IC Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Electronics Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Electronics Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Product Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Product Test Engineer
4 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 2 (25.00%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (25.00%) Smartphone
4 2 (25.00%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (12.50%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Validation
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) UVM
3 3 (37.50%) OO
3 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Electronic Design Automation
4 2 (25.00%) IC Design
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) FPGA Design
5 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
5 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Change
5 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
5 1 (12.50%) Yield Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Bash
1 6 (75.00%) Python
1 6 (75.00%) SystemVerilog
1 6 (75.00%) Tcl
2 3 (37.50%) Assembly Language
2 3 (37.50%) C
2 3 (37.50%) C++
2 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) EMIR
1 1 (12.50%) JTAG
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (25.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Cadence
2 3 (37.50%) Synopsys
2 3 (37.50%) Xilinx
3 1 (12.50%) Mentor Graphics
3 1 (12.50%) Siemens