Cadence Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cadence
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Cadence products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cadence over the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Cadence Design Systems.

6 months to
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 384 -
Rank change year-on-year +19 - -
Contract jobs citing Cadence 5 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.030% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.069% 0.071% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £478 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile - £638 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 £625 -
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £69.65 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% - -
UK median hourly rate £69.65 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -0.50% - -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Cadence falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,231 8,447 10,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.41% 42.76% 45.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,389 5,160 6,931
10th Percentile £220 £213 £206
25th Percentile £363 £378 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £683
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 596 847 482
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £14.37
25th Percentile £16.92 £15.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £27.93
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -10.49% +40.99%
75th Percentile £45.00 £61.30 £58.59
90th Percentile £68.38 £70.00 £70.24
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £26.03 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.38% -34.93% +81.82%

Cadence
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cadence in the UK excluding London

Cadence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cadence in the UK excluding London

Cadence
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cadence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cadence in the UK excluding London

Cadence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cadence in the UK excluding London

Cadence
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 Cadence within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
North of England - 2 £550 -
North West - 2 £550 -
East of England +11 1 - - 10
South East - 1 - - 9
Scotland - 1 £413 -
Cadence
UK

Cadence
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 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) IP Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Verification Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) PCB Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Physical Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (20.00%) FPGA
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
1 1 (20.00%) Mali
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Code Coverage
2 1 (20.00%) Bill of Materials
2 1 (20.00%) Electronic Design Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Schematic Capture
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) EMC
1 1 (20.00%) Synopsys