FPGA Contracts in South Wales

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FPGA over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 57 73
Rank change year-on-year +17 +16 -17
Contract jobs citing FPGA 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.29% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.82% 0.47% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £651 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +0.08% +62.50%
Wales median daily rate - £651 £650
% change year-on-year - +0.08% +62.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82.00 - -
Median hourly rate £84.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £84.00 - -

All Generic Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 122 212 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 35.99% 40.93% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 151 218
10th Percentile £160 £164 £179
25th Percentile £406 £273 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £545 £549 £539
90th Percentile £580 £613 £638
Wales median daily rate £500 £425 £449
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.29% +1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 12
10th Percentile £18.78 £12.59 -
25th Percentile £29.31 £14.78 £11.15
Median hourly rate £48.75 £18.10 £14.18
Median % change year-on-year +169.34% +27.64% -14.06%
75th Percentile £68.31 £21.24 £17.92
90th Percentile £78.93 £32.93 £24.49
Wales median hourly rate £13.50 £17.03 £14.53
% change year-on-year -20.73% +17.23% -4.74%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in South Wales

FPGA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for FPGA in South Wales

FPGA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for FPGA in South Wales

FPGA
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 28 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
Newport +5 1 - -
FPGA
Wales

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Altera
1 1 (100.00%) Microsemi
1 1 (100.00%) Xilinx