Lancashire Field-Programmable Gate Array Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) skills within the Lancashire 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Location Berkshire Bracknell Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire East Anglia East of England England Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Lancashire Livingston London Midlands North West Portsmouth Reading Scotland South Coast South East South West Stevenage UK West Lothian West Midlands	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	46
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	1	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	1.429 %	4.615 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£258	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£34.00
Average hourly rate	-	£34.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.39	£38.52
% change on same period last year	-2.94 %
Miscellaneous Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	70	65
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.093 %	0.065 %
Daily rates quoted	17	17
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£282
Average daily rate	£296	£297
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£307	£311
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.06	£23.26
Average hourly rate	£22.74	£25.07
% change on same period last year	-9.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.41	£26.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.01	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-12.34 %
Field-Programmable Gate Array North West

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 Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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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 Lancashire region.

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 1 (100.00 %) Education 1 1 (100.00 %) Electric 1 1 (100.00 %) VHDL 1 1 (100.00 %) Physics

Field-Programmable Gate Array
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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.

General 1 1 (100.00 %) Education 1 1 (100.00 %) Electric

Miscellaneous 1 1 (100.00 %) VHDL 1 1 (100.00 %) Physics