UVM Contracts in England

Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring UVM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UVM 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 491 576 759
Rank change year-on-year +85 +183 -7
Contract jobs citing UVM 23 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.074% 0.032% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.085% 0.036% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £544 - -
90th Percentile £563 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £450 -
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 4
10th Percentile £63.50 - £48.60
25th Percentile £65.63 - £54.00
Median hourly rate £95.00 £70.00 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% +8.53% +3.20%
75th Percentile £97.50 - £72.00
90th Percentile £100.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £95.00 £70.00 £64.50
% change year-on-year +35.71% +8.53% +3.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

UVM 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,975 35,624 61,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 88.74% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,463 24,518 43,144
10th Percentile £313 £313 £339
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 984 1,490 1,588
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.00 £19.06 £17.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

UVM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for UVM in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for UVM in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UVM in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for UVM in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for UVM in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for UVM 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 UVM within the 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
East of England +18 12 £550 - 15
London - 6 £475 - 2
North of England +33 4 £425 - 1
North West +29 4 £425 - 1
South East - 2 - - 3
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UVM
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:

Applications
1 10 (43.48%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Ethernet
2 1 (4.35%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Electronics
3 2 (8.70%) Law
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.35%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) FPGA Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Verification Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Design Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Digital Hardware Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) ASIC Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Digital Design Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Digital IC Design Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Digital IC Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Firmware Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) IC Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 16 (69.57%) FPGA
2 14 (60.87%) Verilog
3 11 (47.83%) VHDL
4 5 (21.74%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (13.04%) Algorithms
5 3 (13.04%) Augmented Reality
5 3 (13.04%) SystemC
6 2 (8.70%) PCIe
7 1 (4.35%) ASIC
7 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
7 1 (4.35%) Smartphone
7 1 (4.35%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) FPGA Design
2 5 (21.74%) Data Protection
3 2 (8.70%) Configuration Management
3 2 (8.70%) Electronic Design Automation
3 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
3 2 (8.70%) Requirements Management
3 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
3 2 (8.70%) SysML
3 2 (8.70%) Video Processing
4 1 (4.35%) CI/CD
4 1 (4.35%) IC Design
4 1 (4.35%) OO
4 1 (4.35%) OOP
4 1 (4.35%) Regression Testing
4 1 (4.35%) Signal Processing
4 1 (4.35%) Test Automation
4 1 (4.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) SystemVerilog
2 12 (52.17%) C
3 4 (17.39%) Tcl
4 3 (13.04%) C++
4 3 (13.04%) Perl
4 3 (13.04%) Shell Script
5 2 (8.70%) MATLAB
5 2 (8.70%) Python
6 1 (4.35%) Assembly Language
6 1 (4.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) PhD
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) DO-254
2 1 (4.35%) IEC 61508
2 1 (4.35%) JTAG
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Firmware
2 1 (4.35%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsemi
1 9 (39.13%) Xilinx
2 8 (34.78%) Intel
3 6 (26.09%) Cadence
4 2 (8.70%) Mentor Graphics
4 2 (8.70%) Siemens
5 1 (4.35%) Actel
5 1 (4.35%) Lattice Semiconductor
5 1 (4.35%) Synopsys