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 15 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 425 498
Rank change year-on-year +49 +73 -54
Contract jobs citing UVM 25 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.022% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.025% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £551 - £433
25th Percentile £591 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.38%
75th Percentile £638 - £550
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £625 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 0
10th Percentile £69.33 - -
25th Percentile £70.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.25 £57.76 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.28% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.50 £57.76 -
% change year-on-year +22.06% - -

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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

UVM
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

UVM
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

UVM
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

UVM
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 15 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for UVM in the UK excluding London

UVM
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 15 June 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
East of England +25 24 £625 - 9
North of England - 2 - -
North West - 2 - -
South East +15 1 - - 6
UVM
UK

UVM
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 19 (76.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) JIRA
2 3 (12.00%) Subversion
3 1 (4.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (8.00%) Electronics
1 2 (8.00%) Law
2 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 19 (76.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 17 (68.00%) Design Engineer
3 16 (64.00%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Verification Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Digital Design Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Digital Hardware Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Digital IC Design Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Digital IC Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Firmware Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) IC Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) JSON
1 3 (12.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (96.00%) Verilog
2 23 (92.00%) FPGA
3 20 (80.00%) VHDL
4 4 (16.00%) ASIC
5 3 (12.00%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (8.00%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
7 1 (4.00%) Smartphone
7 1 (4.00%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) FPGA Design
2 17 (68.00%) Signal Processing
3 4 (16.00%) Validation
4 3 (12.00%) OO
4 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (12.00%) Project Management
4 3 (12.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (8.00%) Electronic Design Automation
6 1 (4.00%) CI/CD
6 1 (4.00%) Configuration Management
6 1 (4.00%) IC Design
6 1 (4.00%) Mentoring
6 1 (4.00%) Requirements Management
6 1 (4.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (4.00%) SysML
6 1 (4.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (4.00%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 24 (96.00%) SystemVerilog
2 21 (84.00%) C
3 4 (16.00%) Bash
3 4 (16.00%) Python
3 4 (16.00%) Tcl
4 3 (12.00%) Assembly Language
4 3 (12.00%) C++
4 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 18 (72.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) PhD
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) DO-254
2 1 (4.00%) IEC 61508
2 1 (4.00%) JTAG
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Firmware
2 1 (4.00%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 22 (88.00%) Xilinx
2 19 (76.00%) Microsemi
3 18 (72.00%) Intel
4 3 (12.00%) Cadence
4 3 (12.00%) Synopsys
5 2 (8.00%) Siemens
6 1 (4.00%) Actel
6 1 (4.00%) Lattice Semiconductor
6 1 (4.00%) Mentor Graphics