HLSL Contracts

High Level Shading Language (HLSL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring HLSL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HLSL over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 - 827
Rank change year-on-year - - -103
Contract jobs citing HLSL 3 0 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% - 0.024%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.023% - 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +344.44%
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

HLSL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,127 18,949 31,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.08% 34.10% 36.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,257 13,645 23,030
10th Percentile £350 £381 £388
25th Percentile £425 £458 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £663
90th Percentile £764 £788 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 440 493
10th Percentile £31.25 £29.71 £19.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year - +21.95% +16.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £76.25 £78.12 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%

HLSL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for HLSL in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for HLSL in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HLSL over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HLSL in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for HLSL in the UK

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Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HLSL within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 - 3 £600 - 2
UK excluding London - 3 £600 - 1
South East - 2 £600 -
East of England - 1 £300 -

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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:

Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) VTune
General
1 2 (66.67%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Android Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) C++ Android Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Graphics Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Python Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) C Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) C/C++ Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) C++ Games Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) C++ Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Games Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Graphics Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) DirectX
1 3 (100.00%) OpenGL
1 3 (100.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 3 (100.00%) Vulkan
2 2 (66.67%) OpenGL ES
3 1 (33.33%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
1 2 (66.67%) Animation
1 2 (66.67%) Augmented Reality
1 2 (66.67%) Mixed Reality
2 1 (33.33%) Ray Tracing
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Linear Algebra
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) GLSL
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree