VHDL Job Trends in the East of England

VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VHDL in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited VHDL over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 155 137
Rank change year-on-year +8 -18 +75
Permanent jobs citing VHDL 8 23 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.19% 0.65% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.61% 1.73% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 9
10th Percentile £56,000 £54,625 -
25th Percentile £60,250 - £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% - -21.43%
75th Percentile £83,750 £66,938 £60,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £72,375 £65,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% +9.09% -21.43%

All Generic Skills
East of England

VHDL 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 requiring generic IT skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,311 1,331 948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 31.57% 37.89% 38.69%
Number of salaries quoted 610 519 641
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £28,800
25th Percentile £34,872 £41,250 £38,569
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

VHDL
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

VHDL job vacancy trend in the East of England

VHDL
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing VHDL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing VHDL

VHDL
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VHDL in the East of England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for VHDL in the East of England

VHDL
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VHDL within the East of England region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex 0 4 £60,000 -8.40%
Cambridgeshire +11 3 £85,000 - 4
Hertfordshire +9 1 £75,000 +13.21% 8
VHDL
England

VHDL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (12.50%) Redmine
1 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 5 (62.50%) Electronics
2 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Design Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) FPGA Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Electronics Design Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Electronics Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Design Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior FPGA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Communications Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Design Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) DSP Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Hardware Design Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Project Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Project Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Senior DSP Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Hardware Design Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Project Leader
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) FPGA
1 6 (75.00%) Verilog
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) ASIC
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (12.50%) GNSS
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Life Science
2 1 (12.50%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) FPGA Design
2 3 (37.50%) Signal Processing
2 3 (37.50%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) AI
3 2 (25.00%) Requirements Management
3 2 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Business Development
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Signal Processing
4 1 (12.50%) Issue Tracking
4 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (12.50%) Low Latency
4 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Physics
4 1 (12.50%) Product Management
4 1 (12.50%) Schematic Capture
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C++
2 3 (37.50%) C
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) MATLAB
3 1 (12.50%) SystemVerilog
3 1 (12.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (12.50%) PhD
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ECSS
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) EMC
1 1 (12.50%) Xilinx