PetaLinux Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Xilinx PetaLinux Tools
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PetaLinux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 343 -
Rank change year-on-year -99 - -
Contract jobs citing PetaLinux 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.008% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.035% 0.059% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £463 -
UK median daily rate - £463 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

PetaLinux falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,834 1,704 2,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.83% 13.53% 10.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,885 1,124 1,502
10th Percentile £322 £325 £353
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £550 £573 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 61 161
10th Percentile £39.72 £26.50 £40.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.50 £48.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%
75th Percentile £77.13 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.96 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

PetaLinux
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PetaLinux relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

PetaLinux job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

PetaLinux
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 PetaLinux within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 March 2026. 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
Midlands - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
PetaLinux
UK

PetaLinux
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
1 1 (100.00%) Verilog
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
1 1 (100.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Xilinx