Hampshire Field-Programmable Gate Array Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) skills within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Field-Programmable Gate Array over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Devon East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Livingston London Midlands North East North West Reading Scotland South Coast South East South West Stevenage Swindon UK West Lothian West Midlands Wiltshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	97	64
Rank change on same period last year	-33
Matching contract IT job ads	4	57
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.058 %
As % of the category below	1.266 %	11.56 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£325
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£250	£325
% change on same period last year	-23.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£43.33	£36.95
Average hourly rate	£45.00	£38.28
% change on same period last year	+17.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£46.67	£39.62
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.31	£38.40
% change on same period last year	-2.82 %
Miscellaneous Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	316	493
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.445 %	0.498 %
Daily rates quoted	67	85
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£309
Average daily rate	£364	£327
% change on same period last year	+11.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£345
% change on same period last year	+1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	91	110
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.23	£29.51
Average hourly rate	£31.50	£31.18
% change on same period last year	+1.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.77	£32.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.99	£26.29
% change on same period last year	-4.93 %
Field-Programmable Gate Array South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Field-Programmable Gate Array across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Field-Programmable Gate Array across the Hampshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Field-Programmable Gate Array across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 21 (52.50 %) Telecoms 1 21 (52.50 %) VHDL 2 16 (40.00 %) C 3 12 (30.00 %) ASIC 4 6 (15.00 %) Xilinx 5 5 (12.50 %) EMC 6 3 (7.500 %) Electronics 7 2 (5.000 %) Degree 7 2 (5.000 %) Assembly Language 7 2 (5.000 %) Configuration Management 7 2 (5.000 %) Electric 8 1 (2.500 %) Validation 8 1 (2.500 %) Bugzilla 8 1 (2.500 %) MATLAB 8 1 (2.500 %) Simulink

8 1 (2.500 %) Project Management 8 1 (2.500 %) Firmware 8 1 (2.500 %) ClearCase 8 1 (2.500 %) Refactoring 8 1 (2.500 %) Integration Testing 8 1 (2.500 %) SC Cleared 8 1 (2.500 %) Security Cleared

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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.

Applications 1 1 (2.500 %) MATLAB 1 1 (2.500 %) Simulink	Development Applications 1 1 (2.500 %) ClearCase 1 1 (2.500 %) Bugzilla
General 1 21 (52.50 %) Telecoms 2 3 (7.500 %) Electronics 3 2 (5.000 %) Electric	Job Titles 1 27 (67.50 %) FPGA Engineer 2 7 (17.50 %) Hardware Engineer 2 7 (17.50 %) Integration Engineer 3 2 (5.000 %) DSP Engineer 3 2 (5.000 %) Principal Engineer 3 2 (5.000 %) Design Engineer 4 1 (2.500 %) Software Engineer 4 1 (2.500 %) Hardware Design Engineer 4 1 (2.500 %) FPGA Design Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 21 (52.50 %) VHDL 2 12 (30.00 %) ASIC 3 1 (2.500 %) Firmware	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (5.000 %) Configuration Management 2 1 (2.500 %) Project Management 2 1 (2.500 %) Validation 2 1 (2.500 %) Refactoring 2 1 (2.500 %) Integration Testing 2 1 (2.500 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (2.500 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 16 (40.00 %) C 2 2 (5.000 %) Assembly Language	Qualifications 1 2 (5.000 %) Degree
Vendors 1 6 (15.00 %) Xilinx 2 5 (12.50 %) EMC