RISC-V Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

RISC-V
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term RISC-V in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RISC-V over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RISC-V 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.017% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

RISC-V falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,024 4,681 6,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.20% 31.13% 31.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,728 2,633 3,903
10th Percentile £203 £203 £213
25th Percentile £358 £360 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £666 £688 £693
UK median daily rate £501 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 254 375
10th Percentile £13.06 £17.01 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.90 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.50 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% -28.11% +53.25%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £33.27 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% -21.72% +21.43%

RISC-V
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

RISC-V job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

RISC-V
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 RISC-V within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Midlands - 1 £575 -
West Midlands - 1 £575 -
RISC-V
UK

RISC-V
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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) SciPy
1 1 (100.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
1 1 (100.00%) MicroBlaze
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%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) UVM
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared