VHDL Contracts in the UK excluding London

VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VHDL in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VHDL over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 327 417
Rank change year-on-year +25 +90 +77
Contract jobs citing VHDL 37 72 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.35% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% 1.18% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 8
10th Percentile - £495 £435
25th Percentile £463 £525 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% -5.53%
75th Percentile £675 £635 £579
90th Percentile - £719 £601
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 63 12
10th Percentile £66.25 - £47.50
25th Percentile £69.69 £53.40 £48.06
Median hourly rate £80.00 £57.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.49% -4.42% -2.04%
75th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year +39.49% -4.42% +14.29%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

VHDL 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 4,246 6,122 7,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.19% 29.50% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,666 5,259
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £376 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 724 436
10th Percentile £16.81 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.28 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.42 £28.13 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% +27.84% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.64 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.28 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.58% +33.42% -18.24%

VHDL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for VHDL in the UK excluding London

VHDL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for VHDL in the UK excluding London

VHDL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VHDL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VHDL in the UK excluding London

VHDL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for VHDL in the UK excluding London

VHDL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VHDL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for VHDL in the UK excluding London

VHDL
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 VHDL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +32 20 £475 - 48
South East +15 8 £650 +9.70% 47
Scotland +13 5 £488 - 9
Midlands +21 3 £550 - 5
South West +37 2 - - 23
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 3
West Midlands +15 1 - - 2
VHDL
UK

VHDL
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (37.84%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.70%) Azure
1 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) Software-Defined Radio
1 3 (8.11%) Wireless
2 1 (2.70%) 5G
2 1 (2.70%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.70%) RS-232
Development Applications
1 13 (35.14%) Git
2 5 (13.51%) Subversion
3 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket
3 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.11%) JIRA
General
1 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.11%) Electronics
3 2 (5.41%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Military
4 1 (2.70%) Avionics
4 1 (2.70%) Finance
4 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.70%) Marketing
4 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (59.46%) FPGA Engineer
2 13 (35.14%) Design Engineer
2 13 (35.14%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 9 (24.32%) Firmware Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Developer
4 3 (8.11%) FPGA Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Embedded Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Firmware Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 34 (91.89%) FPGA
2 22 (59.46%) Verilog
3 3 (8.11%) Algorithms
3 3 (8.11%) ASIC
4 1 (2.70%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.70%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) FPGA Design
2 18 (48.65%) Signal Processing
3 14 (37.84%) UVM
4 7 (18.92%) Test Scripting
5 4 (10.81%) Agile
6 3 (8.11%) Digital Signal Processing
6 3 (8.11%) Migration
6 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.11%) Risk Management
6 3 (8.11%) Scrum
6 3 (8.11%) SysML
6 3 (8.11%) UML
7 2 (5.41%) Application Security
8 1 (2.70%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (2.70%) Computer Science
8 1 (2.70%) DevOps
8 1 (2.70%) Digital Marketing
8 1 (2.70%) Programme Management
8 1 (2.70%) Validation
8 1 (2.70%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (48.65%) SystemVerilog
2 15 (40.54%) C
3 12 (32.43%) Python
4 11 (29.73%) Tcl
5 4 (10.81%) C++
6 3 (8.11%) Java
7 1 (2.70%) C#
7 1 (2.70%) Embedded C
7 1 (2.70%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 17 (45.95%) Degree
2 14 (37.84%) Security Cleared
3 9 (24.32%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) DO-254
1 1 (2.70%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 12 (32.43%) Firmware
Vendors
1 22 (59.46%) Xilinx
2 18 (48.65%) Intel
3 15 (40.54%) Microsemi
4 3 (8.11%) Algorithmics
4 3 (8.11%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.70%) Altera
5 1 (2.70%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) Siemens