Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for UVM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited UVM over the 6 months to 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 690 825
Rank change year-on-year +151 +135 -127
Contract jobs citing UVM 30 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.009% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.082% 0.010% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £551 - £435
25th Percentile £591 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.50%
75th Percentile £638 - £550
90th Percentile - - £618
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 0
10th Percentile £69.33 £59.18 -
25th Percentile £70.00 £61.32 -
Median hourly rate £75.25 £64.88 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.98% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £68.44 -
90th Percentile - £70.58 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £64.88 -
% change year-on-year +23.30% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

UVM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,577 50,687 79,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.85% 89.72% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,572 35,094 55,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,481 1,678 1,891
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +40.67% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

UVM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UVM in the UK

UVM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for UVM in the UK

UVM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for UVM in the UK

UVM
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UVM over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for UVM 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 UVM within the UK over the 6 months to 24 May 2024. 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 +127 30 £625 - 37
UK excluding London +64 22 £625 - 37
East of England +28 22 £625 - 15
Work from Home +138 19 £550 - 18
London - 7 - - 3
North of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -

UVM
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 17 (56.67%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Git
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
1 3 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (3.33%) Electronics
1 1 (3.33%) Law
1 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) FPGA Engineer
2 17 (56.67%) Design Engineer
3 16 (53.33%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 11 (36.67%) Verification Engineer
5 5 (16.67%) Lead
6 1 (3.33%) Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) JSON
1 3 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (93.33%) FPGA
2 23 (76.67%) Verilog
3 18 (60.00%) VHDL
4 7 (23.33%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (10.00%) ASIC
5 3 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (3.33%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
1 3 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (83.33%) FPGA Design
2 17 (56.67%) Signal Processing
3 7 (23.33%) Data Protection
4 3 (10.00%) OO
4 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (10.00%) Project Management
4 3 (10.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (10.00%) Validation
5 1 (3.33%) Electronic Design Automation
5 1 (3.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (76.67%) SystemVerilog
2 21 (70.00%) C
3 4 (13.33%) C++
3 4 (13.33%) Shell Script
3 4 (13.33%) Tcl
4 3 (10.00%) Assembly Language
4 3 (10.00%) Bash
4 3 (10.00%) Python
5 1 (3.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (56.67%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) DO-254
1 1 (3.33%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 21 (70.00%) Xilinx
2 18 (60.00%) Microsemi
3 17 (56.67%) Intel
4 10 (33.33%) Cadence
5 3 (10.00%) Synopsys
6 1 (3.33%) Actel
6 1 (3.33%) Lattice Semiconductor
6 1 (3.33%) Siemens