Digital Signal Processing Contracts

Digital Signal Processing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Digital Signal Processing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Signal Processing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 578 703
Rank change year-on-year +66 +125 +144
Contract jobs citing Digital Signal Processing 8 4 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.009% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.011% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile £581 £530 £453
25th Percentile £609 £538 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
75th Percentile £675 £605 £575
90th Percentile - £623 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 £56.25 £54.85
Median hourly rate £73.75 £57.50 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +28.26% -2.39% +7.10%
75th Percentile £75.00 £58.75 £62.96
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £73.75 £57.50 £58.91
% change year-on-year +28.26% -2.39% -21.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Digital Signal Processing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Digital Signal Processing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Digital Signal Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Signal Processing in the UK

Digital Signal Processing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Signal Processing.

Daily rate trend for Digital Signal Processing in the UK

Digital Signal Processing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Signal Processing.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Signal Processing in the UK

Digital Signal Processing
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Signal Processing 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 +67 8 £650 +18.18% 65
England +61 8 £650 +18.18% 66
South East +48 4 £650 +9.70% 22
East of England +31 2 - - 26
South West - 2 - - 16

Digital Signal Processing
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 (50.00%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Rational Statemate
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) FPGA Developer
1 3 (37.50%) FPGA Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) NumPy
1 1 (12.50%) Pandas
1 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Algorithms
2 3 (37.50%) FPGA
2 3 (37.50%) Verilog
2 3 (37.50%) VHDL
3 1 (12.50%) CUDA
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Signal Processing
2 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 2 (25.00%) Application Security
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Data Science
5 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) Model Validation
5 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 1 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) MATLAB
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) C++
2 3 (37.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Algorithmics
1 3 (37.50%) Intel