Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited FPGA over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 629 774 931
Rank change year-on-year +145 +157 -201
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 271 178 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.77% 0.42% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 190 86 117
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,011 £34,990
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -14.29% +40.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,875 £91,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -14.29% +40.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

FPGA is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,224 42,073 78,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.90% 42.71% 48.09%
Number of salaries quoted 23,037 22,960 34,085
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,066 £46,350 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in the UK

FPGA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FPGA.

Salary trend for FPGA in the UK

FPGA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FPGA over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for FPGA in the UK

FPGA
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +188 262 £52,000 -14.81% 189
UK excluding London +63 225 £50,000 -16.67% 192
Work from Home +74 86 £56,250 +12.50% 71
South West +50 78 £50,000 -25.93% 35
South East +27 69 £51,500 -17.05% 60
East of England +36 49 £50,000 -18.37% 71
London +155 45 £115,000 +27.78% 22
North of England -3 11 £50,000 +17.65% 4
North West 0 10 £50,000 - 4
Midlands -13 10 £40,000 -63.64% 14
East Midlands -7 9 £40,000 -50.00% 4
Scotland -52 6 £55,000 - 13
Wales +2 2 £45,000 -2.17% 11
Yorkshire +40 1 - -
West Midlands +5 1 - - 9

FPGA
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.74%) Apache
1 2 (0.74%) nginx
2 1 (0.37%) Kinematics
Applications
1 16 (5.90%) Simulink
2 14 (5.17%) OrCAD
3 11 (4.06%) GNU Octave
4 5 (1.85%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (1.48%) Windchill
6 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (4.80%) AWS
2 12 (4.43%) Azure
3 4 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.59%) Ethernet
2 21 (7.75%) TCP/IP
3 15 (5.54%) WAN
4 14 (5.17%) Wireless
5 13 (4.80%) Software-Defined Radio
6 12 (4.43%) 5G
7 11 (4.06%) OFDM
7 11 (4.06%) SD-WAN
8 7 (2.58%) RS-232
8 7 (2.58%) RS-485
9 6 (2.21%) DNS
9 6 (2.21%) NAS
9 6 (2.21%) SAN
10 5 (1.85%) 4G
10 5 (1.85%) DVB
11 4 (1.48%) LAN
11 4 (1.48%) SNMP
12 2 (0.74%) DHCP
12 2 (0.74%) Internet
12 2 (0.74%) RS-422
Development Applications
1 17 (6.27%) Git
2 13 (4.80%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.69%) Subversion
4 8 (2.95%) GitLab
5 7 (2.58%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.74%) JUnit
6 2 (0.74%) PetaLinux
6 2 (0.74%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.37%) CMake
7 1 (0.37%) GCC
7 1 (0.37%) GDB
7 1 (0.37%) JIRA
7 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 104 (38.38%) Electronics
2 48 (17.71%) Finance
3 46 (16.97%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (16.24%) Social Skills
5 37 (13.65%) Manufacturing
6 24 (8.86%) Aerospace
7 17 (6.27%) Automotive
8 16 (5.90%) Telecoms
9 13 (4.80%) Public Sector
10 12 (4.43%) Marketing
11 10 (3.69%) Military
12 8 (2.95%) Front Office
13 5 (1.85%) Aviation
13 5 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.48%) Banking
14 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.48%) Law
14 4 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
16 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (19.56%) Embedded Engineer
2 46 (16.97%) Electronics Engineer
2 46 (16.97%) Senior
3 40 (14.76%) Design Engineer
4 38 (14.02%) Developer
5 37 (13.65%) Lead
6 35 (12.92%) Hardware Engineer
7 33 (12.18%) Software Engineer
8 27 (9.96%) Systems Engineer
9 24 (8.86%) Graduate
10 21 (7.75%) C++ Developer
11 20 (7.38%) FPGA Engineer
12 18 (6.64%) FPGA Developer
13 17 (6.27%) Digital Design Engineer
13 17 (6.27%) Low Latency C++ Developer
14 16 (5.90%) Lead Systems Engineer
15 15 (5.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 15 (5.54%) Junior
16 13 (4.80%) Electronics Design Engineer
16 13 (4.80%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.85%) Yocto
2 4 (1.48%) Flash
2 4 (1.48%) LDAP
3 2 (0.74%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 2 (0.74%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (0.74%) OpenMP
3 2 (0.74%) POSIX
3 2 (0.74%) STL
4 1 (0.37%) .NET
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Thrift
4 1 (0.37%) COM
4 1 (0.37%) CSS
4 1 (0.37%) Flask
4 1 (0.37%) HTML
4 1 (0.37%) HTML5
4 1 (0.37%) LLVM
4 1 (0.37%) Qt
4 1 (0.37%) React
4 1 (0.37%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 95 (35.06%) VHDL
2 35 (12.92%) Algorithms
2 35 (12.92%) Verilog
3 29 (10.70%) Embedded Systems
4 22 (8.12%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (7.38%) Analogue Electronics
6 19 (7.01%) PCIe
7 18 (6.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (4.43%) Equities
8 12 (4.43%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (3.32%) GNSS
10 8 (2.95%) MicroBlaze
11 7 (2.58%) CPLD
12 4 (1.48%) ASIC
12 4 (1.48%) Hedge funds
13 3 (1.11%) CCTV
13 3 (1.11%) Device Driver
13 3 (1.11%) Fibre Optics
14 2 (0.74%) Driving Licence
14 2 (0.74%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 78 (28.78%) Linux
2 12 (4.43%) Windows
3 9 (3.32%) Embedded Linux
4 8 (2.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.58%) FreeRTOS
6 6 (2.21%) CentOS
6 6 (2.21%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (1.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (22.51%) FPGA Design
2 58 (21.40%) Software Engineering
3 56 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (20.66%) Signal Processing
4 54 (19.93%) Computer Science
5 29 (10.70%) Low Latency
6 28 (10.33%) Schematic Capture
7 26 (9.59%) Physics
8 24 (8.86%) Customer Service
8 24 (8.86%) Validation
9 22 (8.12%) Mathematics
10 15 (5.54%) Mentoring
11 14 (5.17%) Kalman Filter
11 14 (5.17%) Software Testing
12 13 (4.80%) Customer Requirements
12 13 (4.80%) Multithreading
12 13 (4.80%) Test Automation
13 12 (4.43%) Digital Marketing
13 12 (4.43%) Memory Management
13 12 (4.43%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 120 (44.28%) C
2 107 (39.48%) C++
3 48 (17.71%) Java
4 45 (16.61%) Python
5 32 (11.81%) MATLAB
6 13 (4.80%) Perl
7 10 (3.69%) Bash
7 10 (3.69%) Tcl
8 9 (3.32%) Embedded C
9 8 (2.95%) VB
10 5 (1.85%) C#
11 4 (1.48%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.48%) SystemVerilog
12 2 (0.74%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.74%) Haskell
12 2 (0.74%) Rust
13 1 (0.37%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 136 (50.18%) Degree
2 40 (14.76%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.49%) PhD
4 21 (7.75%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.43%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (3.69%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.48%) HND
8 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.11%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.95%) JTAG
2 3 (1.11%) ECSS
2 3 (1.11%) PMO
3 1 (0.37%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (0.37%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 101 (37.27%) Firmware
2 30 (11.07%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (3.69%) Ansible
2 4 (1.48%) Nagios
2 4 (1.48%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (11.44%) EMC
2 29 (10.70%) Xilinx
3 16 (5.90%) Intel
4 13 (4.80%) Altera
5 12 (4.43%) SAP
6 8 (2.95%) F5
6 8 (2.95%) Green Hills
6 8 (2.95%) Motorola
6 8 (2.95%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.21%) Oracle
8 4 (1.48%) Mentor Graphics
8 4 (1.48%) Microsemi
8 4 (1.48%) Siemens
9 3 (1.11%) Lattice Semiconductor
10 2 (0.74%) Cadence
10 2 (0.74%) Dell
10 2 (0.74%) HP
10 2 (0.74%) Keysight
11 1 (0.37%) CA