Xilinx Contracts

Xilinx
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Xilinx products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Xilinx over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Xilinx, Inc.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 545 680
Rank change year-on-year +68 +135 +165
Contract jobs citing Xilinx 43 37 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.085% 0.064%
As % of the Vendors category 0.31% 0.20% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 23
10th Percentile £519 £412 £488
25th Percentile £591 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +11.68%
75th Percentile - £638 £650
90th Percentile £656 £665 £709
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £579
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.69% +19.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 22 4
10th Percentile £63.15 £61.00 £47.73
25th Percentile £69.38 £70.00 £48.06
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +45.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £64.88
90th Percentile £89.40 £89.60 £69.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +45.45% -20.00%

All Vendors
UK

Xilinx falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,893 18,473 25,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.41% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,711 11,449 17,111
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,101 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

Xilinx
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Xilinx in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Xilinx in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Xilinx in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Xilinx in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Xilinx 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 Xilinx 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 +61 39 £600 +4.35% 28
UK excluding London +62 36 £600 +4.35% 30
East of England +32 21 £625 - 9
South East +48 13 £600 +4.35% 12
London - 5 £675 - 6
Work from Home +24 4 £638 +962.50% 23
Scotland +14 2 £425 - 4

Xilinx
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 (6.98%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (39.53%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.60%) Ethernet
2 3 (6.98%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Git
2 3 (6.98%) Bitbucket
2 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.98%) JIRA
General
1 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Electronics
3 3 (6.98%) Games
4 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Military
5 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 31 (72.09%) FPGA Engineer
2 13 (30.23%) Design Engineer
2 13 (30.23%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 11 (25.58%) Firmware Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) Senior
5 4 (9.30%) Network Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Senior FPGA Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Firmware Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Electronics Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 39 (90.70%) FPGA
2 35 (81.40%) Verilog
3 27 (62.79%) VHDL
4 8 (18.60%) PCIe
5 4 (9.30%) Data Centre
6 3 (6.98%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.23%) Linux
2 10 (23.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (72.09%) FPGA Design
2 17 (39.53%) UVM
3 16 (37.21%) Signal Processing
4 10 (23.26%) Data Collection
4 10 (23.26%) Software Engineering
4 10 (23.26%) Validation
5 7 (16.28%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (16.28%) Machine Learning
6 4 (9.30%) Prototyping
6 4 (9.30%) Risk Analysis
7 3 (6.98%) Agile
7 3 (6.98%) Computer Science
7 3 (6.98%) Cryptography
7 3 (6.98%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (6.98%) Physics
7 3 (6.98%) Scrum
7 3 (6.98%) SysML
7 3 (6.98%) UML
8 2 (4.65%) Application Security
8 2 (4.65%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 35 (81.40%) SystemVerilog
2 20 (46.51%) Tcl
3 17 (39.53%) Python
4 13 (30.23%) C
5 10 (23.26%) Shell Script
6 4 (9.30%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 19 (44.19%) Degree
2 14 (32.56%) Security Cleared
3 12 (27.91%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.98%) HNC
4 3 (6.98%) HND
5 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) DO-254
System Software
1 13 (30.23%) Firmware
Vendors
1 21 (48.84%) Intel
2 18 (41.86%) Microsemi
3 4 (9.30%) Altera
4 3 (6.98%) Actel
4 3 (6.98%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.33%) EMC