FPGA Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the FPGA Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FPGA Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Job Titles advertised for the West Midlands 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
FPGA Engineer
Rank - - 91
Contract jobs requiring an FPGA Engineer 0 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands - - 0.161%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.174%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £373 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £41.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-9.63% +18.57%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1553 2082 1724
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 92.39% 92.66% 92.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 950 786
Average daily rate £325 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £218 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 170 142
Average hourly rate £20.00 £16.10 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.22% -10.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £10.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £33.00 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
FPGA Engineer
England

FPGA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing FPGA Engineer across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

West Midlands FPGA Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

FPGA Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing FPGA Engineer across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands FPGA Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

FPGA Engineer
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited FPGA Engineer in their job title 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 with FPGA Engineer in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 3 (100.00%) ASIC
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 3 (100.00%) VHDL
1 3 (100.00%) Verilog
1 3 (100.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 3 (100.00%) Xilinx
2 1 (33.33%) Twitter

FPGA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited FPGA Engineer in their job title 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 with FPGA Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Ethernet
General
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) ASIC
1 3 (100.00%) VHDL
1 3 (100.00%) Verilog
1 3 (100.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Xilinx
2 1 (33.33%) Twitter
FPGA Engineer, Design, West Midlands, £40ph+
West Midlands
You will be involved in the design and development of firmware and its integration to the system. There is potential that the contract may require the successful candidate...
Real Staffing
Rate: £35 - £45 per hour
Posted: 15 May 2013
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