IC Design Contracts in the East of England

Integrated Circuit Design (IC Design)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring IC Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IC Design over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IC Design 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.53% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £500 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £69.38 - -
90th Percentile £72.75 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

IC Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,067 1,646 2,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 80.17% 87.93% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 898 1,342
10th Percentile £225 £225 £200
25th Percentile £315 £400 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £619
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 373 399
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £20.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -4.76% +55.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.20 £67.90
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

IC Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing IC Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for IC Design in the East of England

IC Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IC Design in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for IC Design in the East of England

IC Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IC Design in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for IC Design in the East of England

IC Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IC Design in the East of England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IC Design in the East of England

IC Design
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IC Design within the East of England region over the 6 months to 31 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire - 7 £500 - 1
IC Design
England

IC Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
General
1 7 (100.00%) Electronics
2 6 (85.71%) Wearables
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Design Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Digital Design Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Digital IC Design Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Digital IC Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) IC Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Augmented Reality
1 6 (85.71%) Smartphone
1 6 (85.71%) Virtual Reality
2 4 (57.14%) Verilog
3 1 (14.29%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Electronic Design Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Validation
3 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
4 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
5 3 (42.86%) Design for Test
6 1 (14.29%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bash
1 4 (57.14%) Python
1 4 (57.14%) SystemVerilog
1 4 (57.14%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) JTAG
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (57.14%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Siemens
2 2 (28.57%) Cadence
2 2 (28.57%) Synopsys