Hire semiconductor engineers in the UK
Semiconductor Jobs is the UK board for chip people: analogue, digital and mixed-signal designers, verification and physical-design engineers, process and test specialists. Advertise a role to them directly and pay a fixed price once.
- What it costs
- From £99 for a 30-day listing. Pay once — no subscription, no recruiter fee, no percentage of salary.
- How fast it goes live
- One working day. A person reads every advert before it publishes, usually within a couple of hours.
- Who reads it
- IC design and verification engineers, FPGA and ASIC people, process, packaging and test engineers — clustered around Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh and the Thames Valley. Most are employed at a handful of companies and read this board to see who else is hiring.
- What it is not
- A CV database you rent, or an agency taking a fee on the hire. You post the role; candidates come to you.
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There are three ways to fill a Semiconductor role. We are honest about being one of them.
Semiconductor hiring is a small market where the same few hundred engineers move between the same few dozen employers, which makes reach less useful than precision. Here is the short version, including where a board is the wrong tool.
A specialist board
You are hereFixed, from £99 per role
You know roughly who you want, the salary is competitive, and you want the applications to land in your own inbox or ATS.
You need someone headhunted out of a named competitor, or the role is confidential.
A generalist platform
Per-click or per-slot, unbounded
Volume roles where reach matters more than fit, and hiring for functions outside engineering at the same time.
Design and verification roles. The vocabulary — RTL, UVM, DFT, tape-out — means nothing to a generalist audience, and the engineers who use it do not browse generalist sites for work.
A recruitment agency
Typically 15–25% of first-year salary
Principal designers and named-competitor searches, where the person has to be approached, and any role needing a specific node or tool background held today.
Roles you can attract directly. On a £90k salary the fee is most of a hiring budget.
Who actually reads this board
A small audience, and a precise one. People arrive here because they design or make chips for a living and want to see who is hiring for RTL, verification, analogue, physical design and process this month — and whether the role is a tape-out team or a research group.
Who we have on the board
Each one opens the live roles for it on Semiconductor Jobs.
Seniority mix of live roles
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Graduate and entry 8%
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Junior 5%
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Mid-level 23%
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Senior and staff 49%
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Lead and principal 15%
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Head of and director 1%
Where they are
Location pages carry the local salary picture and the companies hiring there.
How the live roles are worked
How the advert reaches them
- Search and Google Jobs
- Every listing is structured for Google Jobs and indexed on the board, so it keeps working for the whole run.
- Saved alerts
- Candidates subscribe to a specialism, a salary floor and a location. Matching roles email out as they publish.
- The weekly digest
- One email, curated, read by people who are not actively applying yet — which is where most senior candidates sit.
- The rest of the network
- Add any of the other fifteen boards for +£75 each. Only worth it where the field genuinely overlaps.
Hiring now
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ECM Selection 4 open roles
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Newton Colmore 4 open roles
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NVIDIA 2 open roles
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Cambridge GaN Devices 1 open role
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Fractile 1 open role
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IC Resources 1 open role
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Adecco
Companies with at least one active listing on Semiconductor Jobs.
What Semiconductor roles pay in the UK
Built from the salaries stated in live adverts on this board, not a survey — the range employers are advertising, and its midpoint.
Semiconductor pay is set by discipline and by scarcity — verification and analogue engineers in particular know their market rate to the pound. An advert that names the band and the node or flow it works in draws the engineers who have shipped silicon; one that hides the number reads as a company that has not benchmarked.
All UK Semiconductor salary benchmarks, coming soon
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Digital Design Engineer
Digital Design Engineer jobs on Semiconductor Jobs
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£90k | £110k |
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FPGA Engineer
FPGA Engineer jobs on Semiconductor Jobs
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£68k | £100k |
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Semiconductor Process Engineer
Semiconductor Process Engineer jobs on Semiconductor Jobs
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£51k | £75k |
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Analog Design Engineer
Analog Design Engineer jobs on Semiconductor Jobs
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ASIC Design Engineer
ASIC Design Engineer jobs on Semiconductor Jobs
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DFT Engineer
DFT Engineer jobs on Semiconductor Jobs
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Failure Analysis Engineer
Failure Analysis Engineer jobs on Semiconductor Jobs
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Mixed-Signal Design Engineer
Mixed-Signal Design Engineer jobs on Semiconductor Jobs
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From live adverts on this board · rows link to the role
From £99 a role. Paid once.
Three tiers and three durations, priced up front. Extra boards are +£75 each and only worth adding where the field overlaps — we will tell you when it does not.
In every listing, including the cheapest one
- A person reviews the advert before it publishes
- Structured for Google Jobs and indexed on the board
- Emailed to matching alert subscribers
- Applications to your inbox or straight into your ATS
- Live for 30 days, extendable
- No subscription and no auto-renewal
If it does not perform
Every listing carries an application benchmark set from the role itself — pay, contract type, working pattern. Come in under it and we extend the run and re-promote the role at no charge. It is in the terms, not a goodwill gesture.
Hiring several roles, or running an agency desk?
Bundles across roles and boards, and automatic ingestion from your ATS or a feed so nothing is re-keyed.
Works with your ATS
Send applications straight into it, or let us pull your open roles from it — and send candidates straight back.
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Ashby
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Greenhouse
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Lever
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Workable
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Personio
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BambooHR
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Rippling
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Workday
Not listed? We can usually build a connector in about a week — tell us about your ATS.
Put the role in front of people who ship silicon.
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