FPGA Contracts in England

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FPGA over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 460 605 746
Rank change year-on-year +145 +141 -182
Contract jobs citing FPGA 76 55 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.11% 0.059%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.66% 0.32% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 6
10th Percentile £377 £438 £244
25th Percentile £509 £488 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £493
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +11.68% +3.68%
75th Percentile £637 £656 £502
90th Percentile £778 £775 £726
UK median daily rate £575 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +6.98% +7.50% +19.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 16 23
10th Percentile - £46.25 £45.41
25th Percentile £53.40 £50.00 £51.97
Median hourly rate £57.35 £62.96 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% +12.43% +17.28%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.81 £62.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £57.35 £61.50 £56.00
% change year-on-year -6.75% +9.82% +23.08%

All Generic Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,504 17,122 24,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.90% 33.69% 33.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,522 11,890 17,184
10th Percentile £263 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 818 614 646
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £13.89
25th Percentile £15.14 £10.75 £16.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -15.09% +1.92%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £22.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +25.56% -16.67% +3.85%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in England

FPGA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for FPGA in England

FPGA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FPGA in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FPGA in England

FPGA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for FPGA in England

FPGA
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing FPGA in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for FPGA in England

FPGA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the England region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
South East +39 46 £575 +11.65% 65
East of England +15 20 £525 - 67
London +103 6 - - 24
South West +17 3 - - 31
Midlands +33 1 £550 +4.76% 21
West Midlands +27 1 £550 +4.76% 10
North West - 1 - - 3
North of England - 1 - - 6
FPGA
UK

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 19 (25.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 34 (44.74%) Ethernet
2 3 (3.95%) Wireless
3 2 (2.63%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (1.32%) 5G
Development Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Git
1 1 (1.32%) JIRA
1 1 (1.32%) Subversion
General
1 38 (50.00%) Electronics
2 2 (2.63%) Law
2 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (51.32%) Designer
2 33 (43.42%) Digital Designer
2 33 (43.42%) FPGA Designer
2 33 (43.42%) VHDL Designer
3 26 (34.21%) FPGA Engineer
4 21 (27.63%) Design Engineer
4 21 (27.63%) FPGA Design Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Verification Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Lead
7 3 (3.95%) Developer
7 3 (3.95%) Firmware Developer
8 2 (2.63%) FPGA Developer
9 1 (1.32%) C++ Software Engineer
9 1 (1.32%) PCB Designer
9 1 (1.32%) Real Time Engineer
9 1 (1.32%) Real Time Software Engineer
9 1 (1.32%) Software Engineer
9 1 (1.32%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.32%) JSON
1 1 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (76.32%) VHDL
2 33 (43.42%) CPLD
3 19 (25.00%) Verilog
4 6 (7.89%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (6.58%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.63%) ASIC
6 2 (2.63%) GNSS
7 1 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.32%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (43.42%) Schematic Capture
2 31 (40.79%) FPGA Design
3 23 (30.26%) UVM
4 19 (25.00%) Signal Processing
5 6 (7.89%) Data Protection
6 3 (3.95%) Configuration Management
6 3 (3.95%) Risk Management
6 3 (3.95%) Software Testing
6 3 (3.95%) Systems Engineering
7 2 (2.63%) Digital Signal Processing
7 2 (2.63%) Open Source
7 2 (2.63%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (2.63%) Test Scripting
8 1 (1.32%) Computer Science
8 1 (1.32%) Kalman Filter
8 1 (1.32%) Mathematics
8 1 (1.32%) Multithreading
8 1 (1.32%) Software Engineering
8 1 (1.32%) System Testing
8 1 (1.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 24 (31.58%) C
2 19 (25.00%) SystemVerilog
3 7 (9.21%) C++
4 6 (7.89%) Embedded C
5 5 (6.58%) Embedded C++
6 3 (3.95%) MATLAB
6 3 (3.95%) Python
7 1 (1.32%) Assembly Language
7 1 (1.32%) Bash
7 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.32%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 51 (67.11%) Degree
2 13 (17.11%) Security Cleared
3 10 (13.16%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.95%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Firmware
Vendors
1 33 (43.42%) EMC
1 33 (43.42%) Xilinx
2 17 (22.37%) Intel
2 17 (22.37%) Microsemi
3 6 (7.89%) Cadence
4 1 (1.32%) Synopsys