VHDL Contracts

VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VHDL in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VHDL over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 663 840
Rank change year-on-year +136 +177 -148
Contract jobs citing VHDL 75 32 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.058% 0.018%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.58% 0.17% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 6
10th Percentile £438 - £459
25th Percentile £488 £400 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% +27.50%
75th Percentile £620 £600 £557
90th Percentile £705 - £580
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £513 £528
% change year-on-year +7.32% -2.96% +32.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 7 3
10th Percentile - £51.00 £52.00
25th Percentile £53.40 £55.00 £58.75
Median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -14.29% +40.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile - - £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -4.42% -17.24% +40.78%

All Generic Skills
UK

VHDL 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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,984 18,455 29,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.97% 33.21% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 12,703 20,498
10th Percentile £274 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £444 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £660 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 928 608 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.24 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.58 £22.26 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +59.85% -17.51% +7.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £59.06 £50.39
90th Percentile £71.44 £75.00 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +59.09% +2.33% -4.44%

VHDL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VHDL in the UK

VHDL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VHDL in the UK

VHDL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VHDL over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VHDL in the UK

VHDL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VHDL in the UK

VHDL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VHDL over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VHDL in the UK

VHDL
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VHDL within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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
UK excluding London +91 75 £550 +7.32% 92
England +139 69 £550 +11.39% 90
South East +50 40 £593 - 22
Work from Home +117 21 - - 38
East of England +16 20 - - 30
South West +17 8 £400 -30.92% 20
Scotland +43 4 - - 5
North of England +26 2 - - 6
Wales +20 2 - - 6
North West - 2 - - 3
Midlands +14 1 £550 +4.76% 7
West Midlands +13 1 £550 - 4

VHDL
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 21 (28.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 33 (44.00%) Ethernet
2 4 (5.33%) Internet
3 1 (1.33%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 38 (50.67%) Electronics
2 5 (6.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.67%) Law
3 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 33 (44.00%) Designer
1 33 (44.00%) Digital Designer
1 33 (44.00%) FPGA Designer
1 33 (44.00%) VHDL Designer
2 27 (36.00%) FPGA Engineer
3 19 (25.33%) Design Engineer
3 19 (25.33%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 5 (6.67%) Architect
4 5 (6.67%) Software Architect
5 4 (5.33%) Embedded Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Python Software Architect
5 4 (5.33%) Software Engineer
6 2 (2.67%) Developer
6 2 (2.67%) DSP Engineer
6 2 (2.67%) Firmware Developer
6 2 (2.67%) Firmware Engineer
6 2 (2.67%) FPGA Developer
7 1 (1.33%) Hardware Engineer
7 1 (1.33%) Process Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.67%) RESTful
1 5 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (84.00%) FPGA
2 33 (44.00%) CPLD
3 31 (41.33%) Verilog
4 7 (9.33%) Algorithms
5 5 (6.67%) Product Ownership
6 4 (5.33%) Device Driver
6 4 (5.33%) IoT
6 4 (5.33%) PCIe
7 2 (2.67%) GNSS
8 1 (1.33%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Embedded Linux
1 4 (5.33%) Linux
1 4 (5.33%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.00%) Schematic Capture
2 28 (37.33%) FPGA Design
3 20 (26.67%) Signal Processing
3 20 (26.67%) UVM
4 9 (12.00%) Agile
5 7 (9.33%) Configuration Management
6 5 (6.67%) DevOps
6 5 (6.67%) Requirements Management
6 5 (6.67%) Software Architecture
6 5 (6.67%) Software Delivery
6 5 (6.67%) Software Engineering
6 5 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (5.33%) CI/CD
7 4 (5.33%) Code Optimisation
7 4 (5.33%) Continuous Deployment
7 4 (5.33%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (5.33%) Defect Tracking
7 4 (5.33%) Device Driver Development
7 4 (5.33%) Memory Management
8 3 (4.00%) Digital Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 33 (44.00%) C
2 20 (26.67%) SystemVerilog
3 11 (14.67%) C++
4 10 (13.33%) Embedded C
5 7 (9.33%) Python
6 6 (8.00%) Embedded C++
7 4 (5.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 53 (70.67%) Degree
2 14 (18.67%) Security Cleared
3 9 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) MISRA
1 4 (5.33%) MISRA C
2 2 (2.67%) DO-254
3 1 (1.33%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 12 (16.00%) Firmware
2 5 (6.67%) Docker
3 1 (1.33%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 33 (44.00%) EMC
2 28 (37.33%) Xilinx
3 22 (29.33%) Intel
4 20 (26.67%) Microsemi
5 4 (5.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.33%) Actel
6 1 (1.33%) Altera
6 1 (1.33%) Lattice Semiconductor
6 1 (1.33%) Mentor Graphics
6 1 (1.33%) Siemens