RISC-V Contracts

RISC-V
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term RISC-V in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RISC-V over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RISC-V 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.010% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

RISC-V falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

RISC-V
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RISC-V as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RISC-V in the UK

RISC-V
Top 1 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RISC-V within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 - 1 - - 24

RISC-V
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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (100.00%) SIMD
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Code Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (100.00%) C
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) QEMU