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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 754 727 1147
Rank change year-on-year -27 +420 -73
Permanent jobs citing OrCAD 24 37 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.062% 0.013%
As % of the Applications category 0.35% 0.79% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14 24 2
10th Percentile £46,375 £32,750 £48,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £63,856 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +31.82% +7.84%
75th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £63,750
90th Percentile - - £66,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% +31.82% +7.84%

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 6,853 4,706 12,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.06% 7.92% 9.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,407 3,312 6,723
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,200 £31,248 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +4.65%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,975 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £38,875 £39,700
% change year-on-year +15.76% -2.08% +5.87%

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 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for OrCAD in the UK

OrCAD
Top 8 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 23 October 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 -46 23 £60,000 -17.24% 14
UK excluding London -57 22 £60,000 -17.24% 13
Work from Home +20 11 £60,000 -29.41% 7
South East -16 11 £52,500 -17.78% 8
East Midlands - 10 £60,000 -
Midlands - 10 £60,000 -
London - 2 £55,000 -
Scotland - 1 - -

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:

Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) Ethernet
2 4 (16.67%) MQTT
2 4 (16.67%) RS-232
2 4 (16.67%) RS-485
2 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 3 (12.50%) 4G
3 3 (12.50%) 5G
3 3 (12.50%) Bluetooth
3 3 (12.50%) LoRaWAN
3 3 (12.50%) Modbus
3 3 (12.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 7 (29.17%) Manufacturing
2 6 (25.00%) Electronics
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Marketing
3 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (70.83%) Embedded Engineer
2 14 (58.33%) Senior
3 13 (54.17%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 10 (41.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 10 (41.67%) Systems Engineer
5 7 (29.17%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 7 (29.17%) Software Engineer
6 6 (25.00%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
6 6 (25.00%) Firmware Engineer
7 3 (12.50%) Electronics Engineer
7 3 (12.50%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 3 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (8.33%) Hardware Engineer
8 2 (8.33%) Senior Firmware Engineer
9 1 (4.17%) Design Engineer
9 1 (4.17%) Hardware Design Engineer
9 1 (4.17%) Lead
9 1 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
9 1 (4.17%) Senior Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 14 (58.33%) IoT
2 13 (54.17%) Embedded Systems
3 8 (33.33%) FPGA
4 5 (20.83%) VHDL
5 4 (16.67%) Analogue Electronics
5 4 (16.67%) Verilog
6 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
6 3 (12.50%) NB-IoT
7 2 (8.33%) Acoustics
8 1 (4.17%) Device Driver
8 1 (4.17%) PCIe
8 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Linux
2 8 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (16.67%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Mentoring
2 9 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 7 (29.17%) CAD
3 7 (29.17%) Unit Testing
4 6 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (16.67%) Build Automation
5 4 (16.67%) DevOps
5 4 (16.67%) Digital Signal Processing
5 4 (16.67%) Linux Kernel Development
5 4 (16.67%) Mathematics
5 4 (16.67%) Signal Processing
5 4 (16.67%) Statistics
6 3 (12.50%) Agile
6 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
6 3 (12.50%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
6 3 (12.50%) Programme Management
6 3 (12.50%) Schematic Capture
6 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) C++
2 7 (29.17%) C
3 5 (20.83%) Assembly Language
4 3 (12.50%) C#
4 3 (12.50%) Python
5 2 (8.33%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 18 (75.00%) Firmware
2 17 (70.83%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Atmel
1 3 (12.50%) EMC
1 3 (12.50%) Freescale
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (4.17%) Altera
2 1 (4.17%) Cadence
2 1 (4.17%) Lattice Semiconductor
2 1 (4.17%) Mentor Graphics