DSP Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

DSP Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median DSP Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 374 425
Rank change year-on-year 0 +51 -
Contract jobs requiring a DSP Engineer 6 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.016% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.018% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £510 £480 -
25th Percentile £525 £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £300
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +75.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £563 -
90th Percentile £590 £570 -
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £300
% change year-on-year +4.76% +75.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £63.00 - -
25th Percentile £63.75 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £81.25 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,811 16,845 20,899
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.26% 92.05% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,445 10,268 14,126
10th Percentile £217 £220 £228
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £682 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,223 1,736 1,146
10th Percentile £13.27 £14.05 £13.98
25th Percentile £16.34 £19.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.08 £45.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.28% +28.57% +64.51%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.80
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.87% +62.77%

DSP Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured DSP Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DSP Engineer in the UK excluding London

DSP Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for DSP Engineer in the UK excluding London

DSP Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for DSP Engineer in the UK excluding London

DSP Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DSP Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DSP Engineer in the UK excluding London

DSP Engineer
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 DSP Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 August 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 +12 6 £550 - 8
DSP Engineer
UK

DSP Engineer Skill Set
Top 9 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 August 2025, DSP Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring DSP Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
1 6 (100.00%) FPGA
1 6 (100.00%) LTE
1 6 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 6 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 6 (100.00%) IoT
1 6 (100.00%) NB-IoT
2 5 (83.33%) Kalman Filter

DSP Engineer Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 6 (100.00%) LTE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) FPGA
1 6 (100.00%) IoT
1 6 (100.00%) NB-IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 6 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 6 (100.00%) Validation
2 5 (83.33%) Kalman Filter