Design for Test Jobs in England

Design for Testability (DFT)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Design for Test skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Design for Test over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 852 873 1163
Rank change year-on-year +21 +290 -265
Permanent jobs citing Design for Test 11 21 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.026% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.027% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £49,450 - £51,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £51,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £52,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +90.48% -34.38% +113.33%
75th Percentile £110,000 £53,750 £96,250
90th Percentile - - £104,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £48,750 £49,000
% change year-on-year +10.77% -0.51% +30.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Design for Test falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,968 78,333 138,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.62% 95.44% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 56,258 48,146 73,664
10th Percentile £29,383 £34,308 £33,349
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,775 £44,178
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Design for Test
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Design for Test as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Design for Test in England

Design for Test
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Design for Test in England.

Salary trend for Design for Test in England

Design for Test
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design for Test in England over the 6 months to 15 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Design for Test in England

Design for Test
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design for Test within the England region over the 6 months to 15 June 2024. 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
South East -29 5 £100,000 +90.48% 3
South West - 4 - - 5
West Midlands - 1 - - 6
North of England - 1 £50,500 - 9
Midlands - 1 - - 6
North West - 1 £50,500 - 4
Design for Test
UK

Design for Test
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Windchill
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Ethernet
2 3 (27.27%) Broadband
3 1 (9.09%) Bluetooth
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Electronics
2 4 (36.36%) Military
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
4 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 1 (9.09%) Automotive
4 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) MATLAB Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Senior
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Hardware Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) FPGA
2 4 (36.36%) PCIe
3 3 (27.27%) IoT
3 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
3 3 (27.27%) VLSI
4 1 (9.09%) Acoustics
4 1 (9.09%) Lidar
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Design for Manufacturing
2 4 (36.36%) Change Management
2 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (36.36%) Kalman Filter
2 4 (36.36%) PLM
2 4 (36.36%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (27.27%) Electronic Design Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Validation
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
5 1 (9.09%) OO
5 1 (9.09%) OOD
5 1 (9.09%) Physics
5 1 (9.09%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Perl
1 3 (27.27%) Python
1 3 (27.27%) Tcl
2 1 (9.09%) C
2 1 (9.09%) C++
2 1 (9.09%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) JTAG
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Firmware
2 1 (9.09%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Intel
1 4 (36.36%) Mentor Graphics
1 4 (36.36%) Siemens
1 4 (36.36%) Xilinx
2 3 (27.27%) Synopsys
3 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
3 1 (9.09%) EMC
3 1 (9.09%) Thales