Xilinx Contracts in the UK excluding London

Xilinx
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Xilinx products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Xilinx over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Xilinx, Inc.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 362 447
Rank change year-on-year +62 +85 +58
Contract jobs citing Xilinx 36 37 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.18% 0.062%
As % of the Vendors category 0.58% 0.42% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 4
10th Percentile £518 £412 £524
25th Percentile £581 £538 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £579
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.69% +19.38%
75th Percentile - £638 £597
90th Percentile £623 £665 £629
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +11.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 22 4
10th Percentile £63.15 £61.00 £47.73
25th Percentile £69.38 £70.00 £48.06
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +45.45% -20.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £64.88
90th Percentile £89.40 £89.60 £69.15
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +45.45% +4.76%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Xilinx falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,222 8,861 10,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.74% 42.66% 44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 5,339 7,359
10th Percentile £215 £205 £205
25th Percentile £369 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 940 476
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.79 £14.31
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%
75th Percentile £58.63 £58.70 £63.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Xilinx
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Xilinx in the UK excluding London

Xilinx
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Xilinx in the UK excluding London

Xilinx
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Xilinx in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Xilinx in the UK excluding London

Xilinx
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Xilinx in the UK excluding London

Xilinx
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Xilinx in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Xilinx in the UK excluding London

Xilinx
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 Xilinx within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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 21 £625 - 23
South East +48 13 £600 +4.35% 32
Scotland +14 2 £425 - 7
Xilinx
UK

Xilinx
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 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (47.22%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) Ethernet
2 3 (8.33%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Electronics
3 3 (8.33%) Games
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Military
5 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 25 (69.44%) FPGA Engineer
2 13 (36.11%) Design Engineer
2 13 (36.11%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 10 (27.78%) Firmware Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Senior
4 2 (5.56%) Senior Firmware Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Electronics Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 32 (88.89%) FPGA
2 31 (86.11%) Verilog
3 22 (61.11%) VHDL
4 4 (11.11%) PCIe
5 3 (8.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 13 (36.11%) Linux
2 10 (27.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (69.44%) FPGA Design
2 17 (47.22%) UVM
3 15 (41.67%) Signal Processing
4 10 (27.78%) Data Collection
4 10 (27.78%) Software Engineering
4 10 (27.78%) Validation
5 3 (8.33%) Agile
5 3 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 3 (8.33%) Cryptography
5 3 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (8.33%) Machine Learning
5 3 (8.33%) Physics
5 3 (8.33%) Scrum
5 3 (8.33%) SysML
5 3 (8.33%) UML
6 2 (5.56%) Application Security
6 2 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (2.78%) Architectural Design
7 1 (2.78%) Design for Manufacturing
Programming Languages
1 31 (86.11%) SystemVerilog
2 16 (44.44%) Tcl
3 13 (36.11%) C
3 13 (36.11%) Python
4 10 (27.78%) Shell Script
5 4 (11.11%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 19 (52.78%) Degree
2 12 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 10 (27.78%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) HNC
4 3 (8.33%) HND
5 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) DO-254
System Software
1 12 (33.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 18 (50.00%) Microsemi
2 17 (47.22%) Intel
3 4 (11.11%) Altera
4 3 (8.33%) Actel
4 3 (8.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.78%) EMC