VHDL Contracts

VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VHDL in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VHDL 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 476 510 685
Rank change year-on-year +34 +175 +151
Contract jobs citing VHDL 44 72 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.17% 0.055%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% 0.54% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 10
10th Percentile - £495 £400
25th Percentile £463 £525 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £675 £635 £579
90th Percentile - £719 £605
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £513
% change year-on-year - +7.32% -5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 63 12
10th Percentile £66.75 - £47.50
25th Percentile £70.00 £53.40 £48.06
Median hourly rate £80.00 £57.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.49% -4.42% +14.29%
75th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £89.75 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year +39.49% -4.42% -2.04%

All Generic Skills
UK

VHDL 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 9,944 13,250 19,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.97% 30.42% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,345 8,502 13,668
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 912 640
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 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%

VHDL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VHDL in the UK

VHDL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VHDL in the UK

VHDL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VHDL over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VHDL in the UK

VHDL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VHDL in the UK

VHDL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VHDL over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for VHDL in the UK

VHDL
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VHDL 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
England +31 40 £625 +13.64% 114
UK excluding London +28 37 £550 - 114
East of England +33 20 £475 - 40
South East +15 8 £650 +9.70% 42
London - 7 £675 - 13
Scotland +13 5 £488 - 7
Midlands +24 3 £550 - 6
Work from Home +22 3 £638 - 58
South West +40 2 - - 20
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 3
West Midlands +14 1 - - 3

VHDL
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 (6.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (31.82%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.27%) Azure
1 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) Ethernet
2 3 (6.82%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (6.82%) Wireless
3 1 (2.27%) 5G
3 1 (2.27%) RS-232
Development Applications
1 14 (31.82%) Git
2 5 (11.36%) Subversion
3 3 (6.82%) Bitbucket
3 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.82%) JIRA
General
1 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Electronics
3 3 (6.82%) Finance
3 3 (6.82%) Manufacturing
3 3 (6.82%) Marketing
3 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.82%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.55%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Military
5 1 (2.27%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 28 (63.64%) FPGA Engineer
2 13 (29.55%) Design Engineer
2 13 (29.55%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 11 (25.00%) Firmware Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Senior
5 4 (9.09%) Network Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Senior FPGA Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Developer
6 3 (6.82%) FPGA Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Firmware Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Embedded Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 41 (93.18%) FPGA
2 28 (63.64%) Verilog
3 5 (11.36%) PCIe
4 4 (9.09%) Data Centre
5 3 (6.82%) Algorithms
5 3 (6.82%) ASIC
6 1 (2.27%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (63.64%) FPGA Design
2 19 (43.18%) Signal Processing
3 16 (36.36%) UVM
4 7 (15.91%) Test Scripting
5 4 (9.09%) Agile
5 4 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (9.09%) Machine Learning
5 4 (9.09%) Prototyping
5 4 (9.09%) Risk Analysis
6 3 (6.82%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (6.82%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (6.82%) Digital Signal Processing
6 3 (6.82%) Migration
6 3 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (6.82%) Programme Management
6 3 (6.82%) Risk Management
6 3 (6.82%) Scrum
6 3 (6.82%) SysML
6 3 (6.82%) UML
7 2 (4.55%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 24 (54.55%) SystemVerilog
2 16 (36.36%) Python
3 15 (34.09%) C
3 15 (34.09%) Tcl
4 4 (9.09%) C++
5 3 (6.82%) Java
6 1 (2.27%) C#
6 1 (2.27%) Embedded C
6 1 (2.27%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 19 (43.18%) Degree
2 14 (31.82%) Security Cleared
3 9 (20.45%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) DO-254
1 1 (2.27%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 15 (34.09%) Firmware
Vendors
1 27 (61.36%) Xilinx
2 22 (50.00%) Intel
3 15 (34.09%) Microsemi
4 3 (6.82%) Algorithmics
4 3 (6.82%) Atlassian
4 3 (6.82%) SAP
5 1 (2.27%) Altera
5 1 (2.27%) Siemens