Design for Test Jobs with Work from Home Options

Design for Testability (DFT)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Design for Test skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Design for Test over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 662 829
Rank change year-on-year +78 +167 -273
Permanent jobs citing Design for Test 7 7 13
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.021% 0.016% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.017% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £54,050 - -
25th Percentile £57,125 £42,500 £33,320
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £45,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +43.33% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £72,125 £47,500 £52,000
90th Percentile £75,350 - £63,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £55,242 £37,500
% change year-on-year +35.77% +47.31% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Design for Test is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,987 41,089 65,497
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.64% 96.07% 96.93%
Number of salaries quoted 23,565 28,569 41,256
10th Percentile £33,944 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Design for Test
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Design for Test as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Design for Test trend for jobs with a WFH option

Design for Test
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Design for Test.

Design for Test salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Design for Test
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Design for Test over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Design for Test salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (57.14%) Windchill
2 1 (14.29%) OrCAD
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Ethernet
2 1 (14.29%) Bluetooth
2 1 (14.29%) LTE
2 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (14.29%) ZigBee
General
1 6 (85.71%) Electronics
2 4 (57.14%) Military
3 3 (42.86%) Manufacturing
4 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (14.29%) Retail
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Hardware Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Electronics Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Electronics Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Hardware Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) FPGA
2 4 (57.14%) PCIe
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (14.29%) IoT
3 1 (14.29%) Lidar
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Design for Manufacturing
2 4 (57.14%) Change Management
2 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) Kalman Filter
2 4 (57.14%) PLM
2 4 (57.14%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Physics
3 1 (14.29%) Power Management
3 1 (14.29%) Product Requirements
3 1 (14.29%) Schematic Capture
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) JTAG
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Intel
1 4 (57.14%) Mentor Graphics
1 4 (57.14%) Siemens
1 4 (57.14%) Xilinx
2 2 (28.57%) EMC
3 1 (14.29%) Thales