Actel Contract Job Trends

Actel
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Actel products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Actel over the 6 months leading up to 27 September 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 the Actel Corporation.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 564 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Actel 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.003% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.051% 0.006% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £60 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £60 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £67.88 - -
25th Percentile £76.25 £67.75 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.48% - -
75th Percentile £86.00 £73.25 -
90th Percentile £88.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £70.50 -
% change year-on-year +13.48% - -

All Vendors
UK

Actel 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,686 17,049 22,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.47% 44.55% 44.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,656 10,073 14,369
10th Percentile £275 £286 £263
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 815 649 667
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.50 £15.23
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.73 £18.78
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.90% +83.44%
75th Percentile £43.21 £64.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £30.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.70% -29.41% +112.50%

Actel
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Actel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Actel in the UK

Actel
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Actel.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Actel

Actel
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Actel.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Actel

Actel
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Actel over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Actel in the UK

Actel
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Actel within the UK over the 6 months to 27 September 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
UK excluding London -9 8 £60 - 11
England +6 7 £60 - 3
East of England +3 7 £60 - 2
Scotland - 1 - - 9

Actel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (100.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Ethernet
General
1 8 (100.00%) Electronics
2 7 (87.50%) Games
3 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Firmware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) FPGA
1 8 (100.00%) PCIe
1 8 (100.00%) Verilog
2 7 (87.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (12.50%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) UVM
2 7 (87.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (87.50%) Computer Science
2 7 (87.50%) Cryptography
2 7 (87.50%) Machine Learning
2 7 (87.50%) Physics
3 4 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (12.50%) FPGA Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 8 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
2 7 (87.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (87.50%) HNC
2 7 (87.50%) HND
2 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) DO-254
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Altera
1 8 (100.00%) Intel
1 8 (100.00%) Microsemi
1 8 (100.00%) Xilinx