UVM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring UVM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UVM over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 374 449
Rank change year-on-year +57 +75 +63
Contract jobs citing UVM 17 20 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.097% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.11% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £625 -
UK median daily rate - £625 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 2
10th Percentile £68.75 - £59.18
25th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £61.32
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £64.88
Median % change year-on-year - +23.30% +23.58%
75th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £68.44
90th Percentile £90.80 - £70.58
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £64.88
% change year-on-year - +23.30% +23.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

UVM 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 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for UVM in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for UVM in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for UVM in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UVM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for UVM in the UK excluding London

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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 UVM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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 +34 16 - - 30
Scotland - 1 - - 3
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UK

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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 17 (100.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Ethernet
General
1 4 (23.53%) Electronics
2 3 (17.65%) Games
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) FPGA Engineer
2 13 (76.47%) Design Engineer
2 13 (76.47%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Firmware Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (100.00%) FPGA
1 17 (100.00%) Verilog
2 14 (82.35%) VHDL
3 4 (23.53%) PCIe
4 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) FPGA Design
2 11 (64.71%) Signal Processing
3 3 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
3 3 (17.65%) Cryptography
3 3 (17.65%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
3 3 (17.65%) Physics
4 2 (11.76%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
2 13 (76.47%) C
3 4 (23.53%) MATLAB
4 3 (17.65%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Degree
2 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) HNC
3 3 (17.65%) HND
3 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) DO-254
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Firmware
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Microsemi
1 17 (100.00%) Xilinx
2 16 (94.12%) Intel
3 4 (23.53%) Altera
4 3 (17.65%) Actel