ASIC Jobs in the UK excluding London

Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term ASIC in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited ASIC over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 583 750 711
Rank change year-on-year +167 -39 +51
Permanent jobs citing ASIC 8 7 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.010% 0.074%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.059% 0.029% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 9
10th Percentile £34,750 £49,250 -
25th Percentile £52,750 £55,625 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +85.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £69,063 £78,750 £37,500
90th Percentile £89,500 £85,000 -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +85.71% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,515 24,195 24,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.92% 33.78% 42.16%
Number of salaries quoted 6,108 15,213 11,146
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,884 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.77% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

ASIC
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ASIC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ASIC in the UK excluding London

ASIC
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ASIC in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for ASIC in the UK excluding London

ASIC
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ASIC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for ASIC in the UK excluding London

ASIC
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ASIC within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 May 2025. 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 +92 5 £62,500 -21.88% 13
North West - 2 £37,500 - 2
North of England - 2 £37,500 - 2
Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 4
West Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 2
ASIC
UK

ASIC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Simulink
General
1 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Advertising
2 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics
2 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Verification Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) FPGA
1 7 (87.50%) VHDL
2 6 (75.00%) Verilog
3 4 (50.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (12.50%) ASIC Verification
4 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (12.50%) NVMe
4 1 (12.50%) PCIe
4 1 (12.50%) VLSI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Signal Processing
2 3 (37.50%) Prototyping
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Signal Processing
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Code Coverage
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) Electronic Design Automation
4 1 (12.50%) FPGA Design
4 1 (12.50%) Kanban
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) SysML
4 1 (12.50%) Test Planning
4 1 (12.50%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C
1 4 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) MATLAB
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (12.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) DO-254
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cadence
1 1 (12.50%) Siemens
1 1 (12.50%) Synopsys
1 1 (12.50%) Xilinx