The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Field-Programmable Gate Array in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 24 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 Scotland 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Rank 116 107 -
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -
Contract jobs citing Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.082% 0.113% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.327% 0.671% -
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 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
612 447 392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 25.09% 16.80% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 188 170
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £197 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 35 19
Average hourly rate £15.77 £26.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.34% -13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £11.40 £13.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £34.50 £161.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Field-Programmable Gate Array
UK

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Field-Programmable Gate Array Hourly Rate Trend

Field-Programmable Gate Array
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Field-Programmable Gate Array within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Edinburgh +5 2 - -
Field-Programmable Gate Array
UK

Field-Programmable Gate Array
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 3 (75.00%) Firmware
1 3 (75.00%) Electronics
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
2 2 (50.00%) Altera
2 2 (50.00%) C
2 2 (50.00%) Xilinx
2 2 (50.00%) Mentor Graphics
2 2 (50.00%) VHDL
2 2 (50.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (25.00%) Subversion
3 1 (25.00%) ZigBee
3 1 (25.00%) Bluetooth
3 1 (25.00%) xDSL
3 1 (25.00%) Signal Processing

Field-Programmable Gate Array
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (25.00%) ZigBee
2 1 (25.00%) Bluetooth
2 1 (25.00%) xDSL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 3 (75.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Communications Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Firmware
2 2 (50.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
1 2 (50.00%) MATLAB
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Altera
1 2 (50.00%) Xilinx
1 2 (50.00%) Mentor Graphics