Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term ASIC in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited ASIC over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 886 929 1133
Rank change year-on-year +43 +204 -247
Permanent jobs citing ASIC 10 41 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.039% 0.064%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.029% 0.091% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 8
10th Percentile £50,375 - -
25th Percentile £56,563 £32,500 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% +7.69% -43.48%
75th Percentile £75,625 £37,500 £36,250
90th Percentile £85,000 - £41,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +85.71% +7.69% -35.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

ASIC is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,768 44,861 72,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.86% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,918 24,128 34,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,107 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

ASIC
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ASIC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ASIC in the UK

ASIC
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ASIC.

Salary trend for ASIC in the UK

ASIC
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ASIC over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for ASIC in the UK

ASIC
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ASIC within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +81 9 £65,000 +85.71% 55
UK excluding London -20 7 £65,000 +85.71% 49
East of England +4 3 £65,000 - 17
London - 3 £65,000 - 9
Work from Home +85 2 - - 33
South East +16 2 £80,000 +128.57% 11
South West -5 1 £45,000 - 15
Scotland - 1 £57,500 - 4

ASIC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

General
1 5 (50.00%) Electronics
2 3 (30.00%) Aerospace
2 3 (30.00%) Automotive
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) French Language
4 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) C++ Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Design Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Design Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) FPGA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Verilog
2 5 (50.00%) VHDL
3 4 (40.00%) FPGA
4 3 (30.00%) Robotics
5 2 (20.00%) ASIC Verification
5 2 (20.00%) Hedge funds
6 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (10.00%) PCIe
6 1 (10.00%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Validation
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Prototyping
2 3 (30.00%) Schematic Capture
2 3 (30.00%) Verification and Validation
3 2 (20.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 2 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (20.00%) Market Making
3 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
3 2 (20.00%) UVM
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (10.00%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) C
2 3 (30.00%) C++
2 3 (30.00%) Tcl
3 2 (20.00%) Perl
3 2 (20.00%) SystemVerilog
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) HNC
3 1 (10.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) EMIR
1 1 (10.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) EMC
2 2 (20.00%) Xilinx
3 1 (10.00%) Intel
3 1 (10.00%) SAP