SystemVerilog Contracts

SystemVerilog
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SystemVerilog skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SystemVerilog over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 712 845
Rank change year-on-year +144 +133 -162
Contract jobs citing SystemVerilog 23 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.010% 0.010%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.18% 0.029% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £604 - £435
25th Percentile £609 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.50%
75th Percentile £638 - £550
90th Percentile - - £618
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 2
10th Percentile £67.53 - -
25th Percentile £70.00 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £72.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +37.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £72.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +11.11% +37.14% +16.67%

All Programming Languages
UK

SystemVerilog is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,769 20,649 32,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.59% 34.91% 36.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,080 14,885 23,465
10th Percentile £350 £394 £384
25th Percentile £425 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.46% +14.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 467 511
10th Percentile £31.70 £26.20 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.55 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +21.10% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £77.40 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £49.75
% change year-on-year +1.07% +24.30% +17.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SystemVerilog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SystemVerilog in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SystemVerilog in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SystemVerilog in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SystemVerilog over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SystemVerilog in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SystemVerilog within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +127 23 £625 - 77
UK excluding London +82 22 £625 - 70
East of England +26 22 £625 - 43
Work from Home +144 18 - - 33
North West - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 2

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (73.91%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) Subversion
General
1 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (4.35%) Electronics
1 1 (4.35%) Law
1 1 (4.35%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 18 (78.26%) Design Engineer
2 17 (73.91%) FPGA Engineer
3 16 (69.57%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Verification Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Analogue Design Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Analogue IC Design Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Analogue IC Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) ASIC Design Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) ASIC Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Digital Design Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) IC Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) JSON
1 3 (13.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (100.00%) Verilog
2 20 (86.96%) FPGA
3 17 (73.91%) VHDL
4 5 (21.74%) ASIC
5 3 (13.04%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (4.35%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (4.35%) Smartphone
6 1 (4.35%) SystemC
6 1 (4.35%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (91.30%) UVM
2 17 (73.91%) FPGA Design
3 16 (69.57%) Signal Processing
4 4 (17.39%) Validation
5 3 (13.04%) OO
5 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.04%) Project Management
5 3 (13.04%) Software Testing
6 1 (4.35%) CI/CD
6 1 (4.35%) Electronic Design Automation
6 1 (4.35%) IC Design
6 1 (4.35%) Mentoring
6 1 (4.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) C
2 5 (21.74%) Tcl
3 4 (17.39%) Bash
3 4 (17.39%) C++
3 4 (17.39%) Python
3 4 (17.39%) Shell Script
4 3 (13.04%) Assembly Language
5 1 (4.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (73.91%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (4.35%) Firmware
Vendors
1 20 (86.96%) Xilinx
2 17 (73.91%) Intel
2 17 (73.91%) Microsemi
3 4 (17.39%) Cadence
4 3 (13.04%) Synopsys
5 1 (4.35%) Mentor Graphics