OrCAD Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cadence Design Systems OrCAD
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OrCAD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 565 534
Rank change year-on-year +49 -31 +227
Permanent jobs citing OrCAD 7 14 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.038% 0.045%
As % of the Applications category 0.16% 0.36% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 11
10th Percentile £40,100 £49,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £55,938 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £60,000 £63,856
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -6.04% +27.71%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £65,500 £66,625 £85,000
UK median annual salary £44,000 £60,000 £63,856
% change year-on-year -26.67% -6.04% +27.71%

All Software Application Skills
UK excluding London

OrCAD falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring software application skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 4,269 3,911 2,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.15% 10.49% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,637 1,433 1,849
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,525 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £27,760
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -1.86%
75th Percentile £51,240 £57,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £47,683 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.11% +12.20% -7.61%

OrCAD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OrCAD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

OrCAD job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OrCAD
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OrCAD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OrCAD

OrCAD
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OrCAD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for OrCAD in the UK excluding London

OrCAD
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 OrCAD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 December 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 +28 6 £52,000 -0.95%
South West - 1 £42,500 -
OrCAD
UK

OrCAD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
1 1 (14.29%) RS-232
1 1 (14.29%) RS-485
General
1 7 (100.00%) Electronics
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Development Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Electronics Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Test Development Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Electronics Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Electronics Design Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Acoustics
1 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (14.29%) Robotics
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Driving Car
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CAD
1 3 (42.86%) Customer Requirements
1 3 (42.86%) Power Management
2 2 (28.57%) Battery Management
3 1 (14.29%) Mechatronics
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (14.29%) Schematic Capture
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
1 3 (42.86%) C++
1 3 (42.86%) Pascal
1 3 (42.86%) VB
2 2 (28.57%) MATLAB
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) EMC
2 2 (28.57%) Cadence