ANSYS Contract Job Trends

ANSYS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of ANSYS products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ANSYS over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 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 ANSYS, Inc.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 576 541 607
Rank change year-on-year -35 +66 +177
Contract jobs citing ANSYS 6 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.006% 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.035% 0.012% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £94 - -
25th Percentile £156 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £259 - -
75th Percentile £362 - -
90th Percentile £424 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £53 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +51.58% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £46.18 -
% change year-on-year +51.58% - -

All Vendors
UK

ANSYS 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 17,187 16,208 20,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.37% 45.39% 45.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,917 9,626 13,106
10th Percentile £290 £290 £255
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 864 500 679
10th Percentile £15.23 £15.46 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.09 £18.69 £19.88
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.39 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% -33.97% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.35 £62.51 £64.70
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% -39.04% +97.78%

ANSYS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ANSYS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

ANSYS job vacancy trend in the UK

ANSYS
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

ANSYS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ANSYS over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ANSYS in the UK

ANSYS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

ANSYS
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ANSYS within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 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
England -33 6 £259 - 8
UK excluding London -36 5 £53 - 8
East of England - 5 £53 - 3
Work from Home - 4 £465 - 5
London - 1 £465 -

ANSYS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Siemens NX
2 1 (16.67%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
1 4 (66.67%) PVCS
1 4 (66.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 4 (66.67%) Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) C Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) C/C++ Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Embedded C Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Embedded C Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Mechanical Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Mechanical Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Mechanical Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Code Coverage
1 4 (66.67%) Requirements Analysis
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Workflow
2 2 (33.33%) CAD
2 2 (33.33%) PLM
3 1 (16.67%) Finite Element Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C
1 4 (66.67%) C++
2 3 (50.00%) Embedded C
2 3 (50.00%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) IBM
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Siemens
3 1 (16.67%) EMC
3 1 (16.67%) PTC