HLSL Contracts in the UK excluding London

High Level Shading Language (HLSL)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for HLSL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HLSL over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 - 487
Rank change year-on-year - - -53
Contract jobs citing HLSL 3 0 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% - 0.065%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.063% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £600 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +344.44%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

HLSL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,760 6,802 8,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.37% 28.94% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,198 4,810 6,167
10th Percentile £315 £350 £335
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £676 £644
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 341 340
10th Percentile £38.08 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.68 £29.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.00 £67.53
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +16.63%

HLSL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for HLSL in the UK excluding London

HLSL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for HLSL in the UK excluding London

HLSL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HLSL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HLSL in the UK excluding London

HLSL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for HLSL in the UK excluding London

HLSL
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 HLSL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
South East - 2 £600 -
East of England - 1 £300 -
HLSL
UK

HLSL
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 (33.33%) VTune
General
1 2 (66.67%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Android Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) C++ Android Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Graphics Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Python Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) C Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) C/C++ Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) C++ Games Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) C++ Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Games Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Graphics Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) DirectX
1 3 (100.00%) OpenGL
1 3 (100.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 3 (100.00%) Vulkan
2 2 (66.67%) OpenGL ES
3 1 (33.33%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (66.67%) Animation
1 2 (66.67%) Augmented Reality
1 2 (66.67%) Mixed Reality
2 1 (33.33%) Ray Tracing
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Linear Algebra
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) GLSL
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree