Digital Signal Processing Contracts in the West Midlands

Digital Signal Processing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Digital Signal Processing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Signal Processing over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - 118
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Digital Signal Processing 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.11% - 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £533
25th Percentile £525 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £575
75th Percentile £575 - £594
90th Percentile - - £598
England median daily rate £563 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% +3.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Digital Signal Processing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,541 1,545 1,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.26% 81.14% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 1,021 1,239
10th Percentile £250 £250 £263
25th Percentile £398 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £603
90th Percentile £650 £725 £726
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 52 46
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.02 £14.93
25th Percentile £14.81 £14.70 £21.26
Median hourly rate £24.34 £19.99 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.79% -27.33% +62.60%
75th Percentile £35.45 £35.00 £42.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.25 £69.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +54.55%

Digital Signal Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Digital Signal Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Signal Processing in the West Midlands

Digital Signal Processing
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Digital Signal Processing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Digital Signal Processing

Digital Signal Processing
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Signal Processing within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Worcestershire - 2 £550 - 1
Digital Signal Processing
England

Digital Signal Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) FPGA
1 2 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 2 (100.00%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Xilinx