Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring UVM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited UVM over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 698 879 949
Rank change year-on-year +181 +70 +243
Permanent jobs citing UVM 7 18 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.018% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.021% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 5
10th Percentile £60,625 £66,875 £61,000
25th Percentile £65,000 - £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +72.93%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,563 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £85,000 £81,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £88,750 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +26.79% -3.45% +72.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

UVM falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,770 84,704 95,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.86% 85.53% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,375 59,701 56,503
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%

UVM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for UVM in the UK

UVM
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for UVM in the UK

UVM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing UVM over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for UVM in the UK

UVM
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing UVM within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England +134 4 £70,000 - 71
UK excluding London +163 3 £88,750 +26.79% 68
East of England +40 2 £62,500 -10.71% 38
South East +95 1 £115,000 +43.75% 14
London - 1 £70,000 - 10

UVM
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 (42.86%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) Subversion
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Designer
2 1 (14.29%) FPGA Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Verification Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) FPGA
1 6 (85.71%) Verilog
1 6 (85.71%) VHDL
2 4 (57.14%) NVMe
3 1 (14.29%) ASIC
3 1 (14.29%) ASIC Verification
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) FPGA Design
2 2 (28.57%) Signal Processing
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Electronic Design Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
2 4 (57.14%) Tcl
3 3 (42.86%) C
4 1 (14.29%) Perl
4 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Intel
1 3 (42.86%) Microsemi
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
1 3 (42.86%) Xilinx
2 1 (14.29%) Cadence
2 1 (14.29%) Siemens
2 1 (14.29%) Synopsys