Design for Test Jobs in the UK excluding London

Design for Testability (DFT)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Design for Test skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Design for Test over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 743 739 806
Rank change year-on-year -4 +67 -144
Permanent jobs citing Design for Test 13 23 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.037% 0.045%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.039% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,375 -
25th Percentile £47,250 £44,688 £33,320
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £48,750 £35,280
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% +38.18% -5.92%
75th Percentile £110,000 £52,188 £38,750
90th Percentile - £53,125 £48,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £55,242 £37,500
% change year-on-year +35.77% +47.31% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Design for Test is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,303 58,729 66,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 95.63% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,097 30,137 41,486
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Design for Test
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Design for Test in the UK excluding London

Design for Test
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Design for Test in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Design for Test in the UK excluding London

Design for Test
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design for Test in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Design for Test in the UK excluding London

Design for Test
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 Design for Test within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +1 6 £100,000 +90.48% 17
South West - 4 - - 6
Wales - 2 £45,000 - 1
West Midlands +30 1 - -
Midlands +14 1 - -
Design for Test
UK

Design for Test
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Windchill
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (7.69%) OrCAD
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) Ethernet
2 3 (23.08%) Broadband
3 2 (15.38%) RS-232
3 2 (15.38%) RS-422
3 2 (15.38%) RS-485
4 1 (7.69%) Bluetooth
4 1 (7.69%) LTE
4 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (7.69%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) Subversion
2 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 8 (61.54%) Electronics
2 5 (38.46%) Manufacturing
3 4 (30.77%) Military
4 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
6 1 (7.69%) Finance
6 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (7.69%) Retail
6 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Hardware Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) MATLAB Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Electronics Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Hardware Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) FPGA
2 6 (46.15%) PCIe
3 4 (30.77%) IoT
4 3 (23.08%) Mobile App
4 3 (23.08%) VLSI
5 2 (15.38%) Driving Licence
5 2 (15.38%) VHDL
6 1 (7.69%) Acoustics
6 1 (7.69%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (7.69%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Design for Manufacturing
2 4 (30.77%) Change Management
2 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (30.77%) Kalman Filter
2 4 (30.77%) PLM
2 4 (30.77%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (23.08%) Electronic Design Automation
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Schematic Capture
3 3 (23.08%) Validation
4 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Agile
5 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
5 1 (7.69%) OO
5 1 (7.69%) OOD
5 1 (7.69%) Physics
5 1 (7.69%) Product Requirements
5 1 (7.69%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Perl
2 3 (23.08%) Tcl
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) C
3 2 (15.38%) Embedded C
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.69%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Degree
3 2 (15.38%) HNC
3 2 (15.38%) HND
3 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) JTAG
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) EMC
1 4 (30.77%) Intel
1 4 (30.77%) Mentor Graphics
1 4 (30.77%) Siemens
1 4 (30.77%) Xilinx
2 3 (23.08%) Synopsys
3 2 (15.38%) Altera
3 2 (15.38%) Cadence
3 2 (15.38%) Lattice Semiconductor
4 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.69%) Thales