Digital Signal Processing Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Digital Signal Processing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Digital Signal Processing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 - 116
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Signal Processing 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.23% - 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% - 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +7.87%

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,911 1,578 1,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.97% 83.98% 85.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,217 979 1,096
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +4.80% -
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £713
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 54 51
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.38 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.01 £22.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% -8.80% +41.24%
75th Percentile £30.00 £33.93 £52.50
90th Percentile £41.30 £51.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%

Digital Signal Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Digital Signal Processing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Digital Signal Processing job vacancy trend 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
Contract 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 26 November 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
Worcestershire - 5 £550 - 2
Digital Signal Processing
England

Digital Signal Processing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 5 (100.00%) FPGA
1 5 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 5 (100.00%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Xilinx