Digital Signal Processing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Digital Signal Processing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Digital Signal Processing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Signal Processing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 395 450
Rank change year-on-year +67 +55 +59
Contract jobs citing Digital Signal Processing 8 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.019% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.023% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile £581 £530 £453
25th Percentile £609 £538 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
75th Percentile £675 £605 £575
90th Percentile - £623 £588
UK median daily rate £650 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 £56.25 £54.85
Median hourly rate £73.75 £57.50 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +28.26% -2.39% -21.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £58.75 £62.96
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £73.75 £57.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year +28.26% -2.39% +7.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Digital 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Digital Signal Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Signal Processing in the UK excluding London

Digital Signal Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Signal Processing in the UK excluding London

Digital Signal Processing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Signal Processing in the UK excluding London

Digital Signal Processing
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 Digital Signal Processing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +48 4 £650 +9.70% 58
East of England +31 2 - - 50
South West - 2 - - 34
Digital Signal Processing
UK

Digital Signal Processing
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:

Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Rational Statemate
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) FPGA Developer
1 3 (37.50%) FPGA Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) NumPy
1 1 (12.50%) Pandas
1 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Algorithms
2 3 (37.50%) FPGA
2 3 (37.50%) Verilog
2 3 (37.50%) VHDL
3 1 (12.50%) CUDA
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Signal Processing
2 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 2 (25.00%) Application Security
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Data Science
5 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) Model Validation
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 1 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) MATLAB
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) C++
2 3 (37.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Algorithmics
1 3 (37.50%) Intel