UVM Contracts in the UK excluding London

Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 354 399 503
Rank change year-on-year +45 +104 +12
Contract jobs citing UVM 15 14 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.090% 0.067% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.076% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £450 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £538 £475 -
90th Percentile £560 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £450 -
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 3
10th Percentile £64.45 - £60.00
25th Percentile - - £64.50
Median hourly rate £95.00 £70.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -2.78% +15.20%
75th Percentile £100.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,041 18,439 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.81% 88.33% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,020 12,105 18,694
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £686 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 1,303 1,340
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £12.66
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.50 £70.30
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing UVM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for UVM in the UK excluding London

UVM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UVM in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for UVM in the UK excluding London

UVM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for UVM in the UK excluding London

UVM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UVM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for UVM in the UK excluding London

UVM
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for UVM in the UK excluding London

UVM
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UVM within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +33 4 £425 - 1
North West +29 4 £425 - 1
South East - 2 - - 3
UVM
UK

UVM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (66.67%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Electronics
2 2 (13.33%) Law
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Verification Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Design Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Digital Hardware Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Design Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Digital IC Design Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Digital IC Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Firmware Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IC Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) FPGA
1 11 (73.33%) Verilog
1 11 (73.33%) VHDL
2 3 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (20.00%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (6.67%) ASIC
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Smartphone
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) FPGA Design
2 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (13.33%) Electronic Design Automation
2 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (13.33%) Requirements Management
2 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (13.33%) SysML
2 2 (13.33%) Video Processing
3 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (6.67%) IC Design
3 1 (6.67%) OO
3 1 (6.67%) OOP
3 1 (6.67%) Signal Processing
3 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) SystemVerilog
2 9 (60.00%) C
3 2 (13.33%) MATLAB
4 1 (6.67%) Assembly Language
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) PhD
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) DO-254
2 1 (6.67%) IEC 61508
2 1 (6.67%) JTAG
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Firmware
2 1 (6.67%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsemi
1 9 (60.00%) Xilinx
2 8 (53.33%) Intel
3 2 (13.33%) Mentor Graphics
3 2 (13.33%) Siemens
4 1 (6.67%) Actel
4 1 (6.67%) Cadence
4 1 (6.67%) Lattice Semiconductor
4 1 (6.67%) Synopsys