Stevenage Field-Programmable Gate Array Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) skills within the Stevenage 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 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Location Basildon Berkshire Blackburn Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Cowes Devon East Midlands East of England England Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire London North East North West Portsmouth South East South West Stevenage Swindon Thames Valley UK West Sussex Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	15	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	20.00 %	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	£268	£413
% change on same period last year	-34.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£32.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.91	£37.44
% change on same period last year	-4.07 %
Miscellaneous Stevenage
Matching contract IT job ads	10	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.028 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£257
Average daily rate	£450	£276
% change on same period last year	+63.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£351
% change on same period last year	-2.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.00	£33.70
Average hourly rate	£32.60	£34.87
% change on same period last year	-6.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.20	£36.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.05	£25.59
% change on same period last year	+1.83 %
Field-Programmable Gate Array Hertfordshire

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 Stevenage 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 Stevenage 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 Stevenage region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009.

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Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage 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 9 (100.00 %) VHDL 2 4 (44.44 %) FMECA 2 4 (44.44 %) Degree 2 4 (44.44 %) Electric 3 3 (33.33 %) Firmware 4 2 (22.22 %) HNC 4 2 (22.22 %) Electronics 4 2 (22.22 %) Mathematics 5 1 (11.11 %) ASIC

Field-Programmable Gate Array
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage 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 4 (44.44 %) Electric 2 2 (22.22 %) Electronics	Job Titles 1 5 (55.56 %) Hardware Engineer 1 5 (55.56 %) FPGA Engineer 2 1 (11.11 %) Design Engineer 2 1 (11.11 %) Electronics Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 9 (100.00 %) VHDL 2 3 (33.33 %) Firmware 3 2 (22.22 %) Mathematics 4 1 (11.11 %) ASIC	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (44.44 %) FMECA
Qualifications 1 4 (44.44 %) Degree 2 2 (22.22 %) HNC