The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Field-Programmable Gate Array in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Field-Programmable Gate Array over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Buckinghamshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Rank 65 - 74
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.247% - 0.184%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.379% - 0.922%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-11.25% +14.28%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
145 239 217
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 17.88% 24.21% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 84 72
Average daily rate £350 £330 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £481 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 17 25
Average hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £16.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.20% -10.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.21 £10.53 £11.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Field-Programmable Gate Array
South East

Field-Programmable Gate Array
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Field-Programmable Gate Array across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Buckinghamshire Field-Programmable Gate Array Jobs Demand Trend

Field-Programmable Gate Array
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Field-Programmable Gate Array across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Field-Programmable Gate Array Hourly Rate Trend

Field-Programmable Gate Array
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Field-Programmable Gate Array also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Field-Programmable Gate Array.

1 2 (50.00%) Verilog
2 1 (25.00%) Xilinx
2 1 (25.00%) Image Processing
2 1 (25.00%) Altera
2 1 (25.00%) SystemC
2 1 (25.00%) C

Field-Programmable Gate Array
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Field-Programmable Gate Array also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Field-Programmable Gate Array. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Verification Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Verilog
2 1 (25.00%) SystemC
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Image Processing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Xilinx
1 1 (25.00%) Altera
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