Cadence Design Systems OrCAD
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for OrCAD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OrCAD over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 885 938 1227
Rank change year-on-year +53 +289 -326
Permanent jobs citing OrCAD 25 41 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.040% 0.006%
As % of the Applications category 0.25% 0.45% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 20 13 5
10th Percentile £37,125 - -
25th Percentile £37,500 - £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +13.04% +13.86%
75th Percentile £61,250 - £61,250
90th Percentile - £81,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -26.92% +13.04% +12.75%

All Software Application Skills
UK

OrCAD is in the Software Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for software application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 9,811 9,096 13,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.93% 8.80% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,130 4,948 7,110
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,750 £25,982
25th Percentile £27,965 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £44,345 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.44% -1.46% +5.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £39,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -5.06% +1.28%

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 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OrCAD in the UK

OrCAD
Top 6 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 6 May 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
UK excluding London -26 25 £47,500 -26.92% 13
England +86 24 £47,500 -26.92% 14
Work from Home +58 18 £50,000 -23.08% 4
South East +30 15 £52,500 -38.24% 10
South West -24 9 £40,000 - 1
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 5 (20.00%) SOLIDWORKS
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (60.00%) Ethernet
2 6 (24.00%) RS-232
3 5 (20.00%) 4G
3 5 (20.00%) Modbus
3 5 (20.00%) Wireless
4 4 (16.00%) 3G
4 4 (16.00%) GPRS
5 2 (8.00%) Bluetooth
6 1 (4.00%) 5G
6 1 (4.00%) LoRaWAN
6 1 (4.00%) LTE
6 1 (4.00%) MQTT
6 1 (4.00%) RS-485
6 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (4.00%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
1 5 (20.00%) LabVIEW
2 4 (16.00%) Eclipse
2 4 (16.00%) Subversion
3 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (52.00%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (52.00%) Manufacturing
2 12 (48.00%) Electronics
3 9 (36.00%) Aerospace
4 7 (28.00%) Finance
5 6 (24.00%) Marketing
5 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (24.00%) Telecoms
6 5 (20.00%) Aviation
6 5 (20.00%) Avionics
6 5 (20.00%) Military
7 4 (16.00%) Automotive
8 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 12 (48.00%) Senior
3 8 (32.00%) Senior Hardware Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Electronics Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Analogue Hardware Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Digital Hardware Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Embedded Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Senior Electronics Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Design Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Graduate
7 2 (8.00%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Graduate Design Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Hardware Design Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Junior
8 1 (4.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Flash
2 1 (4.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 14 (56.00%) FPGA
2 13 (52.00%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (32.00%) PCIe
4 6 (24.00%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (24.00%) IoT
5 5 (20.00%) Analogue Electronics
5 5 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (20.00%) NB-IoT
6 4 (16.00%) ARM Cortex
7 2 (8.00%) VHDL
8 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
8 1 (4.00%) SystemC
8 1 (4.00%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Schematic Capture
1 14 (56.00%) Validation
2 10 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
2 10 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (24.00%) Digital Marketing
3 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (24.00%) Programme Management
4 5 (20.00%) Coaching
4 5 (20.00%) Commercialisation
4 5 (20.00%) FPGA Design
4 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (20.00%) Logistics
4 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (20.00%) Physics
5 4 (16.00%) CAD
5 4 (16.00%) Prototyping
6 1 (4.00%) Agile
6 1 (4.00%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (4.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) C++
2 5 (20.00%) Assembly Language
2 5 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (4.00%) C
3 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (72.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) IEC 61131
1 4 (16.00%) JTAG
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Firmware
2 2 (8.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (4.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) EMC
2 6 (24.00%) SAP
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) Altera
4 1 (4.00%) Atmel
4 1 (4.00%) Autodesk
4 1 (4.00%) CA
4 1 (4.00%) Freescale
4 1 (4.00%) Lattice Semiconductor
4 1 (4.00%) NCR