ASIC Contracts in England

Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term ASIC in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ASIC over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 644 762
Rank change year-on-year +121 +118 -145
Contract jobs citing ASIC 8 2 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.004% 0.021%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.072% 0.012% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £500 - -
25th Percentile £569 £725 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £644 £775 -
90th Percentile £697 - -
UK median daily rate £625 £750 -
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - £50.85
25th Percentile £51.25 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £67.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +20.54% +12.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £67.50 £56.00
% change year-on-year -31.48% +20.54% +12.00%

All Generic Skills
England

ASIC is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,164 16,311 24,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.67% 33.66% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,326 11,352 17,202
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £571 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 815 573 638
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.03
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -15.15% +1.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.60
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +41.54% -17.57% +3.85%

ASIC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ASIC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ASIC in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ASIC in England.

Daily rate trend for ASIC in England

ASIC
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ASIC in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ASIC in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ASIC in England.

Hourly rate trend for ASIC in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ASIC within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
East of England +15 5 £625 - 32
London +102 2 £693 -7.63% 8
North West - 1 £475 - 1
North of England - 1 £475 - 1
ASIC
UK

ASIC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (37.50%) Subversion
General
1 1 (12.50%) Electronics
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Verification Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analogue Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analogue IC Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analogue IC Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) IC Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) JSON
1 4 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Verilog
2 4 (50.00%) FPGA
3 3 (37.50%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (12.50%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (12.50%) Derivative
4 1 (12.50%) Smartphone
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (50.00%) Validation
2 3 (37.50%) OO
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
2 3 (37.50%) UVM
3 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
3 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Electronic Design Automation
3 1 (12.50%) FPGA Design
3 1 (12.50%) IC Design
3 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
3 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Change
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Bash
1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) SystemVerilog
1 5 (62.50%) Tcl
2 3 (37.50%) Assembly Language
2 3 (37.50%) C
2 3 (37.50%) C++
2 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) EMIR
2 1 (12.50%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (12.50%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Cadence
2 3 (37.50%) Synopsys
2 3 (37.50%) Xilinx
3 1 (12.50%) Mentor Graphics
78 ASIC jobs Nationwide