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

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 403 493
Rank change year-on-year +77 +90 -79
Contract jobs citing VHDL 75 27 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.12% 0.036%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.24% 0.37% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 5
10th Percentile £438 £435 £457
25th Percentile £488 £455 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £556
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -7.87% +39.06%
75th Percentile £620 £579 £559
90th Percentile £705 £601 £584
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 7 2
10th Percentile - £51.00 £70.50
25th Percentile £53.40 £55.00 £71.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -17.24% +40.78%
75th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.50
UK median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% -14.29% +40.00%

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 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

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 17 June 2024.

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 17 June 2024.

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 17 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
South East +50 40 £593 - 19
East of England +19 20 - - 26
South West +7 8 £400 -30.92% 18
Scotland +52 4 - - 1
Wales +22 2 - - 5
North of England +18 2 - - 1
North West - 2 - -
West Midlands +18 1 £550 - 3
Midlands +9 1 £550 +4.76% 8
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:

Applications
1 21 (28.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 33 (44.00%) Ethernet
2 4 (5.33%) Internet
3 1 (1.33%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 38 (50.67%) Electronics
2 5 (6.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.67%) Law
3 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 33 (44.00%) Designer
1 33 (44.00%) Digital Designer
1 33 (44.00%) FPGA Designer
1 33 (44.00%) VHDL Designer
2 27 (36.00%) FPGA Engineer
3 19 (25.33%) Design Engineer
3 19 (25.33%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 5 (6.67%) Architect
4 5 (6.67%) Software Architect
5 4 (5.33%) Embedded Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Python Software Architect
5 4 (5.33%) Software Engineer
6 2 (2.67%) Developer
6 2 (2.67%) DSP Engineer
6 2 (2.67%) Firmware Developer
6 2 (2.67%) Firmware Engineer
6 2 (2.67%) FPGA Developer
7 1 (1.33%) Hardware Engineer
7 1 (1.33%) Process Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.67%) RESTful
1 5 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (84.00%) FPGA
2 33 (44.00%) CPLD
3 31 (41.33%) Verilog
4 7 (9.33%) Algorithms
5 5 (6.67%) Product Ownership
6 4 (5.33%) Device Driver
6 4 (5.33%) IoT
6 4 (5.33%) PCIe
7 2 (2.67%) GNSS
8 1 (1.33%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Embedded Linux
1 4 (5.33%) Linux
1 4 (5.33%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.00%) Schematic Capture
2 28 (37.33%) FPGA Design
3 20 (26.67%) Signal Processing
3 20 (26.67%) UVM
4 9 (12.00%) Agile
5 7 (9.33%) Configuration Management
6 5 (6.67%) DevOps
6 5 (6.67%) Requirements Management
6 5 (6.67%) Software Architecture
6 5 (6.67%) Software Delivery
6 5 (6.67%) Software Engineering
6 5 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (5.33%) CI/CD
7 4 (5.33%) Code Optimisation
7 4 (5.33%) Continuous Deployment
7 4 (5.33%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (5.33%) Defect Tracking
7 4 (5.33%) Device Driver Development
7 4 (5.33%) Memory Management
8 3 (4.00%) Digital Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 33 (44.00%) C
2 20 (26.67%) SystemVerilog
3 11 (14.67%) C++
4 10 (13.33%) Embedded C
5 7 (9.33%) Python
6 6 (8.00%) Embedded C++
7 4 (5.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 53 (70.67%) Degree
2 14 (18.67%) Security Cleared
3 9 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) MISRA
1 4 (5.33%) MISRA C
2 2 (2.67%) DO-254
3 1 (1.33%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 12 (16.00%) Firmware
2 5 (6.67%) Docker
3 1 (1.33%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 33 (44.00%) EMC
2 28 (37.33%) Xilinx
3 22 (29.33%) Intel
4 20 (26.67%) Microsemi
5 4 (5.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.33%) Actel
6 1 (1.33%) Altera
6 1 (1.33%) Lattice Semiconductor
6 1 (1.33%) Mentor Graphics
6 1 (1.33%) Siemens