Skills and tools
What employers actually ask for, detected in the text of 1743 open postings, with the median advertised pay attached to each.
Python
917 open · median $159,500
PCIe
336 open · median $175,000
SystemVerilog
276 open · median $164,000
Ethernet
269 open · median $175,000
Siemens EDA
256 open · median $165,000
Cadence
235 open · median $165,000
Verilog
219 open · median $158,000
Tcl
210 open · median $160,000
Synopsys
196 open · median $160,000
Static Timing Analysis
190 open · median $168,000
UVM
186 open · median $165,000
Signal Integrity
167 open · median $165,000
Tape-out
167 open · median $170,000
SerDes
160 open · median $165,000
DDR / HBM
137 open · median $150,000
Arm
135 open · median $160,000
CMOS process
112 open · median $165,000
RISC-V
109 open · median $172,500
Scan & DFT
99 open · median $165,000
PCB layout
87 open · median $140,000
RTOS / Embedded
77 open · median $170,000
SPICE / Analog sim
60 open · median $157,000
Linux kernel
38 open · median $145,830
VHDL
30 open · median $125,000
CUDA / GPU
21 open · median $135,000
C / C++
5 open · median n/a