Cadence Design Systems OrCAD
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring OrCAD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OrCAD over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 697 882 920
Rank change year-on-year +185 +38 +333
Permanent jobs citing OrCAD 5 25 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.024% 0.050%
As % of the Applications category 0.076% 0.25% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 5 20 20
10th Percentile - £37,125 -
25th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +13.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,500 - £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £47,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +13.04%

All Software Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 6,558 10,008 8,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.74% 9.65% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,198 6,045 4,690
10th Percentile £27,250 £24,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £27,965 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% -14.44% -
75th Percentile £60,265 £53,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,000 £67,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +37.14% -6.67% -4.63%

OrCAD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OrCAD in the UK

OrCAD
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for OrCAD in the UK

OrCAD
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OrCAD over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OrCAD in the UK

OrCAD
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OrCAD within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
UK excluding London +163 5 £65,000 +36.84% 20
England +152 5 £65,000 +36.84% 17
South East +69 5 £65,000 +23.81% 12

OrCAD
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 3 (60.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Development Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Hardware Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Test Development Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) PCB Design Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) PCB Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) Device Driver
1 2 (40.00%) FPGA
1 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (40.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) CAD
1 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (40.00%) Device Driver Development
1 2 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (40.00%) Physics
1 2 (40.00%) Schematic Capture
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) C
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Embedded C
2 2 (40.00%) Embedded C++
2 2 (40.00%) Pascal
2 2 (40.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) PhD
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cadence
1 1 (20.00%) EMC