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 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 339 387 416
Rank change year-on-year +48 +29 +100
Contract jobs citing Digital Signal Processing 23 2 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.010% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.012% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £506 - £462
25th Percentile £525 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - -1.12%
75th Percentile £619 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 - £680
UK median daily rate £588 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +6.82% - -1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £65.00 - -
25th Percentile £69.69 - £54.85
Median hourly rate £72.50 - £58.91
75th Percentile £75.00 - £62.96
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 - £58.91
% change year-on-year - - +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 13,272 16,878 20,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.25% 82.90% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,026 10,042 13,836
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £367 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,223 1,950 1,258
10th Percentile £13.82 £12.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.99 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £38.20 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.16% -4.51% +86.05%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.96 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £75.99
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.25
% change year-on-year -34.02% -5.29% +52.81%

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Digital Signal Processing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 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
East of England +28 18 £600 - 34
South West - 3 - - 11
South East +34 1 £575 +4.55% 16
Scotland - 1 - - 1
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 10 (43.48%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) 3GPP
1 11 (47.83%) LTE
2 1 (4.35%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Rational Statemate
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 2 (8.70%) Military
2 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
2 1 (4.35%) Electronics
2 1 (4.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) FPGA Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) DSP Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Performance Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) RF Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) CUDA Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) CUDA Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Scientist
6 1 (4.35%) Field Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Hardware Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Principal Hardware Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Kafka
1 1 (4.35%) NumPy
1 1 (4.35%) Pandas
1 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 12 (52.17%) FPGA
2 11 (47.83%) IoT
2 11 (47.83%) NB-IoT
3 6 (26.09%) Algorithms
4 4 (17.39%) CUDA
5 1 (4.35%) PCIe
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Signal Processing
2 16 (69.57%) Validation
3 9 (39.13%) Kalman Filter
4 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (13.04%) Memory Management
5 3 (13.04%) OO
5 3 (13.04%) OOP
5 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
5 3 (13.04%) Verification and Validation
6 2 (8.70%) Application Security
6 2 (8.70%) Data Analysis
6 2 (8.70%) Model Validation
6 2 (8.70%) Risk Management
6 2 (8.70%) Systems Engineering
7 1 (4.35%) Data Science
7 1 (4.35%) Physics
7 1 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (4.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (4.35%) Synthetic Environment
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) MATLAB
2 3 (13.04%) C
2 3 (13.04%) C++
3 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) HNC
4 1 (4.35%) HND