Altera Contracts

Altera
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Altera products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Altera 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 the Altera Corporation.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 581 711
Rank change year-on-year +65 +130 +142
Contract jobs citing Altera 4 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.002% 0.012%
As % of the Vendors category 0.029% 0.005% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £465
25th Percentile - - £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £500
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - £621
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £63.53 - £47.65
25th Percentile £67.69 £82.00 £47.88
Median hourly rate £79.00 £84.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% +68.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £88.00 £86.00 £57.50
90th Percentile - - £60.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 £84.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -5.95% +68.00% -4.76%

All Vendors
UK

Altera 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 13,893 18,473 25,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.41% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,711 11,449 17,111
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,101 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Altera in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Altera.

Daily rate trend for Altera in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Altera.

Hourly rate trend for Altera in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Altera over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Altera in the UK

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Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Altera within the UK 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
UK excluding London +66 4 - - 14
East of England - 3 - - 4
England - 3 - - 13
Scotland - 1 - - 2

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