VHDL Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VHDL in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 301 323 465
Rank change year-on-year +22 +142 +159
Contract jobs citing VHDL 3 22 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.14% 0.046%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.092% 0.50% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £614 - £415
25th Percentile £616 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.52%
75th Percentile £666 - £584
90th Percentile £671 - £594
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 21 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £70.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +60.00% -
75th Percentile - £85.00 £62.25
90th Percentile - - £68.10
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year +39.49% -4.42% +14.29%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

VHDL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

VHDL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

VHDL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

VHDL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VHDL
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

VHDL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

VHDL
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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) RS-232
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Firmware Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Firmware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) FPGA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Signal Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Xilinx
2 1 (33.33%) Intel
2 1 (33.33%) Siemens