Signal Processing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Signal Processing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Signal Processing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Signal Processing 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 297 322 466
Rank change year-on-year +25 +144 +155
Contract jobs citing Signal Processing 7 23 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.15% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.17% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile £443 - £235
25th Percentile £460 £413 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £436
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £438 £469
90th Percentile £653 - £488
UK median daily rate £625 £500 £347
% change year-on-year +25.00% +43.91% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 21 1
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +37.14%
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £67.75 £65.45
% change year-on-year +18.08% +3.51% +19.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Signal Processing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Signal Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Signal Processing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Signal Processing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Signal Processing.

Signal Processing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Signal Processing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Signal Processing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Signal Processing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Signal Processing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Signal Processing.

Signal Processing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Signal Processing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Firmware Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Firmware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Algorithms
1 5 (71.43%) Device Driver
1 5 (71.43%) Embedded Systems
1 5 (71.43%) IoT
2 2 (28.57%) FPGA
2 2 (28.57%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Architectural Design
1 5 (71.43%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Enablement
1 5 (71.43%) Decision-Making
1 5 (71.43%) Device Driver Development
1 5 (71.43%) Multithreading
1 5 (71.43%) Project Management
1 5 (71.43%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Embedded C
2 4 (57.14%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Xilinx