ASIC Job Trends in the East Midlands

Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term ASIC in permanent job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited ASIC over the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	180	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Permanent jobs citing ASIC	3	0	0
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands	0.044%	-	-
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.17%	-	-
Number of salaries quoted	2	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£85,000	-	-
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£90,000	-	-
75^th Percentile	£95,000	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
England median annual salary	£100,000	£50,000	£62,500
% change year-on-year	+100.00%	-20.00%	+11.11%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

ASIC falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies citing generic IT skills in the East Midlands.

	6 months to 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing generic IT skills	1,741	955	830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands	25.28%	42.84%	23.93%
Number of salaries quoted	1,063	448	318
10^th Percentile	£28,500	£25,625	£31,000
25^th Percentile	£35,000	£28,938	£37,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£47,500	£37,500	£50,000
Median % change year-on-year	+26.67%	-25.00%	-4.76%
75^th Percentile	£62,000	£55,000	£62,500
90^th Percentile	£75,000	£74,125	£78,413
England median annual salary	£55,000	£55,000	£60,000
% change year-on-year	-	-8.33%	-4.00%

ASIC Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ASIC relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

ASIC Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ASIC.

ASIC Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ASIC within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 October 2026. 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Lincolnshire	-	2	£90,000	-
Leicestershire	-	1	-	-	1
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ASIC Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 30 October 2026, job vacancies citing ASIC also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East Midlands region citing ASIC.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Firmware	100.0%	3
1	Trade-off Analysis	100.0%	3
3	C++	66.7%	2
3	Cadence	66.7%	2
3	Electronic Design Automation	66.7%	2
3	Python	66.7%	2
3	Siemens	66.7%	2
3	Synopsys	66.7%	2
9	Continuous Improvement	33.3%	1
9	Degree	33.3%	1
9	Signal Processing	33.3%	1
9	Validation	33.3%	1
9	Verification and Validation	33.3%	1

ASIC Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Algorithms	66.7%	2
2	FPGA	33.3%	1