SystemVerilog Contracts

SystemVerilog
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SystemVerilog skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SystemVerilog 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 479 578 707
Rank change year-on-year +99 +129 +139
Contract jobs citing SystemVerilog 40 22 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.050% 0.010%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.40% 0.17% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile £529 £603 -
25th Percentile £591 £606 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile - £638 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £625 -
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 1
10th Percentile £63.50 £67.53 -
25th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £75.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +4.17% +37.14%
75th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £88.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +37.14%

All Programming Languages
UK

SystemVerilog falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,942 12,854 20,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.01% 29.49% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,743 9,130 15,092
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £769 £760 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 485 471
10th Percentile £22.49 £31.25 £26.25
25th Percentile £33.91 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.87 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +2.20% - +26.21%

SystemVerilog
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SystemVerilog in the UK

SystemVerilog
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SystemVerilog in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SystemVerilog over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SystemVerilog in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SystemVerilog in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SystemVerilog over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SystemVerilog in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SystemVerilog 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 +77 36 £600 -4.00% 56
UK excluding London +64 31 £600 -4.00% 50
East of England +29 17 £575 -8.00% 22
South East - 12 £600 - 14
London - 6 - - 7
Work from Home +34 3 - - 31
Scotland - 2 £425 - 1

SystemVerilog
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (42.50%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) Ethernet
2 3 (7.50%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket
1 3 (7.50%) Git
1 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (7.50%) JIRA
General
1 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Electronics
3 3 (7.50%) Games
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.00%) Marketing
4 2 (5.00%) Military
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 31 (77.50%) FPGA Engineer
2 14 (35.00%) Design Engineer
3 13 (32.50%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Firmware Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior
5 4 (10.00%) Senior FPGA Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Verification Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 40 (100.00%) Verilog
2 34 (85.00%) FPGA
3 24 (60.00%) VHDL
4 8 (20.00%) PCIe
5 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
6 3 (7.50%) Algorithms
7 2 (5.00%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 13 (32.50%) Linux
2 10 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (77.50%) FPGA Design
2 22 (55.00%) UVM
3 11 (27.50%) Signal Processing
4 10 (25.00%) Data Collection
4 10 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 10 (25.00%) Validation
5 7 (17.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (17.50%) Machine Learning
6 4 (10.00%) Prototyping
6 4 (10.00%) Risk Analysis
7 3 (7.50%) Agile
7 3 (7.50%) Computer Science
7 3 (7.50%) Cryptography
7 3 (7.50%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (7.50%) Physics
7 3 (7.50%) Scrum
7 3 (7.50%) SysML
7 3 (7.50%) UML
8 2 (5.00%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (5.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (55.00%) Tcl
2 19 (47.50%) Python
3 15 (37.50%) C
4 12 (30.00%) Shell Script
5 4 (10.00%) MATLAB
6 2 (5.00%) C++
6 2 (5.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (50.00%) Degree
2 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) HNC
4 3 (7.50%) HND
5 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 2 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) DO-254
System Software
1 10 (25.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 35 (87.50%) Xilinx
2 21 (52.50%) Intel
3 18 (45.00%) Microsemi
4 4 (10.00%) Altera
5 3 (7.50%) Actel
5 3 (7.50%) Atlassian
6 2 (5.00%) SAP
7 1 (2.50%) Cadence