FPGA Jobs in England

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 581 747 888
Rank change year-on-year +166 +141 -203
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 239 180 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.81% 0.45% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 164 81 110
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £42,350
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -14.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £70,313 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £76,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -21.43% +33.33%

All Generic Skills
England

FPGA is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29,467 40,061 60,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.72% 43.24% 46.25%
Number of salaries quoted 20,776 21,656 30,542
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,459 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,686 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in England

FPGA
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FPGA in England.

Salary trend for FPGA in England

FPGA
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing FPGA in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for FPGA in England

FPGA
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +45 70 £52,500 -15.44% 66
South West +33 67 £55,000 -18.52% 31
East of England +30 48 £50,000 -16.67% 68
London +169 39 £122,500 +122.73% 21
North of England -17 12 £50,000 +17.65% 4
North West +16 11 £50,000 - 2
Midlands -15 3 £46,250 -57.95% 21
East Midlands -23 2 £46,250 -42.19% 12
Yorkshire +40 1 - - 2
West Midlands +23 1 - - 9
FPGA
UK

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.42%) Apache
1 1 (0.42%) Kinematics
1 1 (0.42%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (6.69%) Simulink
2 12 (5.02%) OrCAD
3 8 (3.35%) GNU Octave
4 5 (2.09%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (1.67%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 12 (5.02%) AWS
2 11 (4.60%) Azure
3 4 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.21%) Ethernet
2 17 (7.11%) TCP/IP
3 13 (5.44%) Software-Defined Radio
3 13 (5.44%) Wireless
4 11 (4.60%) 5G
4 11 (4.60%) WAN
5 10 (4.18%) SD-WAN
6 8 (3.35%) OFDM
7 5 (2.09%) RS-232
7 5 (2.09%) RS-485
8 4 (1.67%) 4G
9 2 (0.84%) DNS
9 2 (0.84%) Internet
9 2 (0.84%) NAS
9 2 (0.84%) SAN
10 1 (0.42%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.42%) DHCP
10 1 (0.42%) DVB
10 1 (0.42%) SNMP
10 1 (0.42%) UMTS
Development Applications
1 15 (6.28%) Git
2 12 (5.02%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.35%) Subversion
4 7 (2.93%) GitLab
4 7 (2.93%) LabVIEW
5 2 (0.84%) JUnit
5 2 (0.84%) PetaLinux
5 2 (0.84%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.42%) CMake
6 1 (0.42%) GCC
6 1 (0.42%) GDB
6 1 (0.42%) JIRA
General
1 91 (38.08%) Electronics
2 45 (18.83%) Finance
3 42 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (14.23%) Social Skills
5 27 (11.30%) Manufacturing
6 24 (10.04%) Aerospace
7 17 (7.11%) Automotive
8 14 (5.86%) Telecoms
9 12 (5.02%) Public Sector
10 11 (4.60%) Marketing
11 10 (4.18%) Military
12 7 (2.93%) Front Office
13 5 (2.09%) Aviation
13 5 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.84%) Banking
17 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
17 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (17.57%) Electronics Engineer
2 40 (16.74%) Embedded Engineer
2 40 (16.74%) Senior
3 39 (16.32%) Developer
4 37 (15.48%) Lead
5 32 (13.39%) Software Engineer
6 29 (12.13%) Hardware Engineer
7 28 (11.72%) Design Engineer
8 27 (11.30%) Systems Engineer
9 23 (9.62%) C++ Developer
9 23 (9.62%) Graduate
10 18 (7.53%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 17 (7.11%) FPGA Developer
12 16 (6.69%) Lead Systems Engineer
13 14 (5.86%) FPGA Engineer
13 14 (5.86%) Junior
14 13 (5.44%) Digital Design Engineer
15 12 (5.02%) C++/Java Developer
15 12 (5.02%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 12 (5.02%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.09%) Yocto
2 4 (1.67%) Flash
3 3 (1.26%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 2 (0.84%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (0.84%) OpenMP
4 2 (0.84%) POSIX
4 2 (0.84%) STL
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Thrift
5 1 (0.42%) CSS
5 1 (0.42%) Flask
5 1 (0.42%) HTML
5 1 (0.42%) HTML5
5 1 (0.42%) LDAP
5 1 (0.42%) LLVM
5 1 (0.42%) React
5 1 (0.42%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 82 (34.31%) VHDL
2 33 (13.81%) Algorithms
2 33 (13.81%) Verilog
3 26 (10.88%) Embedded Systems
4 23 (9.62%) Analogue Electronics
5 19 (7.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 17 (7.11%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (6.28%) PCIe
8 14 (5.86%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (4.60%) Equities
10 8 (3.35%) GNSS
11 7 (2.93%) MicroBlaze
12 4 (1.67%) CPLD
12 4 (1.67%) Hedge funds
13 3 (1.26%) ASIC
13 3 (1.26%) Device Driver
13 3 (1.26%) Fibre Optics
14 2 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
14 2 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 65 (27.20%) Linux
2 9 (3.77%) Windows
3 5 (2.09%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (2.09%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (0.84%) Android
4 2 (0.84%) CentOS
4 2 (0.84%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (24.27%) Software Engineering
2 54 (22.59%) FPGA Design
3 53 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (22.18%) Signal Processing
4 47 (19.67%) Computer Science
5 30 (12.55%) Low Latency
6 28 (11.72%) Physics
7 27 (11.30%) Schematic Capture
8 25 (10.46%) Mathematics
9 24 (10.04%) Customer Service
10 21 (8.79%) Validation
11 14 (5.86%) Mentoring
12 13 (5.44%) Customer Requirements
12 13 (5.44%) Kalman Filter
12 13 (5.44%) Memory Management
13 12 (5.02%) Multithreading
13 12 (5.02%) Test Automation
14 11 (4.60%) Business Intelligence
14 11 (4.60%) Digital Marketing
14 11 (4.60%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 113 (47.28%) C
2 101 (42.26%) C++
3 44 (18.41%) Java
4 34 (14.23%) Python
5 28 (11.72%) MATLAB
6 8 (3.35%) Bash
6 8 (3.35%) Perl
7 7 (2.93%) Tcl
7 7 (2.93%) VB
8 4 (1.67%) Embedded C
8 4 (1.67%) SystemVerilog
9 3 (1.26%) C#
10 2 (0.84%) Embedded C++
10 2 (0.84%) Haskell
10 2 (0.84%) Rust
10 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.42%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 120 (50.21%) Degree
2 42 (17.57%) Security Cleared
3 26 (10.88%) PhD
4 23 (9.62%) SC Cleared
5 14 (5.86%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (3.77%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.84%) HND
9 1 (0.42%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.93%) JTAG
2 3 (1.26%) ECSS
2 3 (1.26%) PMO
3 1 (0.42%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (0.42%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 91 (38.08%) Firmware
2 27 (11.30%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.67%) Ansible
2 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.42%) Nagios
2 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 28 (11.72%) EMC
2 25 (10.46%) Xilinx
3 13 (5.44%) Intel
4 11 (4.60%) SAP
5 7 (2.93%) Altera
5 7 (2.93%) Green Hills
5 7 (2.93%) Motorola
6 4 (1.67%) Mentor Graphics
6 4 (1.67%) Microsemi
6 4 (1.67%) Siemens
7 2 (0.84%) F5
7 2 (0.84%) Keysight
7 2 (0.84%) Oracle
7 2 (0.84%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.42%) CA
8 1 (0.42%) Dell
8 1 (0.42%) HP