Electronic Design Automation Contracts

Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Electronic Design Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Electronic Design Automation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 680 832
Rank change year-on-year +108 +152 -108
Contract jobs citing Electronic Design Automation 3 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.004% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.004% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £300
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.00%
75th Percentile - - £400
90th Percentile - - £460
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £300
% change year-on-year - - -40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.50 - -
90th Percentile £71.35 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Electronic Design Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Electronic Design Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Electronic Design Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Electronic Design Automation in the UK

Electronic Design Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Electronic Design Automation.

Daily rate trend for Electronic Design Automation in the UK

Electronic Design Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Electronic Design Automation.

Hourly rate trend for Electronic Design Automation in the UK

Electronic Design Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Electronic Design Automation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Electronic Design Automation in the UK

Electronic Design Automation
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Design Automation within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +87 3 - - 23
UK excluding London +40 3 - - 19
East of England +7 3 - - 10

Electronic Design Automation
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Electronics
2 2 (66.67%) Wearables
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Design Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IC Design Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analogue Design Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analogue IC Design Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analogue IC Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Design Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Digital IC Design Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Digital IC Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Verilog
2 2 (66.67%) ASIC
2 2 (66.67%) Augmented Reality
2 2 (66.67%) Smartphone
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (33.33%) FPGA
3 1 (33.33%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) IC Design
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) UVM
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) FPGA Design
2 1 (33.33%) Signal Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) PhD
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) DO-254
1 1 (33.33%) IEC 61508
1 1 (33.33%) JTAG
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Firmware
2 2 (66.67%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Siemens
2 1 (33.33%) Actel
2 1 (33.33%) Cadence
2 1 (33.33%) Lattice Semiconductor
2 1 (33.33%) Mentor Graphics
2 1 (33.33%) Microsemi
2 1 (33.33%) Xilinx