Altera Contract Job Trends

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 21 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 Altera Corporation.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 565 642
Rank change year-on-year +10 +77 +206
Contract jobs citing Altera 10 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.003% 0.008%
As % of the Vendors category 0.065% 0.006% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £61 - £465
25th Percentile £61 £419 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £63 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year -85.71% -12.50% -33.33%
75th Percentile £64 £456 £575
90th Percentile £65 - £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £63 £438 £500
% change year-on-year -85.71% -12.50% -33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £67.88 - -
25th Percentile £76.25 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.00 - -
90th Percentile £88.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 - -

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 15,493 17,023 22,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 44.34% 44.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,496 10,181 14,394
10th Percentile £275 £285 £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 £626 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 802 671 659
10th Percentile £14.70 £14.25 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.62 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.41 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -17.30% -30.63% +83.35%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £42.33
% change year-on-year -30.00% -29.12% +111.64%

Altera
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Altera in the UK

Altera
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Altera
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Altera
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Altera over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Altera in the UK

Altera
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 Altera within the UK over the 6 months to 21 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 +20 10 £63 -85.71% 10
England +21 7 £60 -86.29% 3
East of England +6 7 £60 -86.29% 2
Scotland - 3 £65 - 7

Altera
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 10 (100.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) Ethernet
General
1 10 (100.00%) Electronics
2 7 (70.00%) Games
3 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) FPGA Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Firmware Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) FPGA
1 10 (100.00%) PCIe
2 8 (80.00%) Verilog
3 7 (70.00%) Algorithms
4 3 (30.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) UVM
2 7 (70.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (70.00%) Computer Science
2 7 (70.00%) Cryptography
2 7 (70.00%) Machine Learning
2 7 (70.00%) Physics
3 4 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (30.00%) FPGA Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 10 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
2 7 (70.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Degree
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (70.00%) HNC
3 7 (70.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) DO-254
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Xilinx
2 9 (90.00%) Microsemi
3 8 (80.00%) Actel
3 8 (80.00%) Intel
4 1 (10.00%) Siemens