Stafford Field-Programmable Gate Array Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) skills within the Stafford 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 15 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 North East North West Reading Scotland South Coast South East South West Stafford Stevenage Swindon UK West Lothian West Midlands Wiltshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
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	£250	£325
% change on same period last year	-23.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.87	£38.29
% change on same period last year	-3.70 %
Miscellaneous Stafford
Matching contract IT job ads	4	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.004 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£400	-
Average daily rate	£425	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£450	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£341
% change on same period last year	+2.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£16.49
Average hourly rate	£22.06	£20.90
% change on same period last year	+5.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.13	£25.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.03	£26.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Field-Programmable Gate Array Staffordshire

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 Stafford 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 Stafford region.

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Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stafford 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 %) VHDL 1 1 (100.00 %) CPLD 1 1 (100.00 %) Xilinx

Field-Programmable Gate Array
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stafford 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.

Miscellaneous 1 1 (100.00 %) VHDL 1 1 (100.00 %) CPLD

Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Xilinx