FPGA Contracts in Cambridge

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in contract job vacancies in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FPGA over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 20 31
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 +2
DemandTrendContract jobs citing FPGA 14 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 8.28% 3.70% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 18.18% 11.76% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £506 - -
25th Percentile £525 £613 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £463
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +35.14% -7.50%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £469
90th Percentile £625 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £588 £625 £463
% change year-on-year -6.00% +35.14% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £63.00 - -
25th Percentile £63.75 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £81.25 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Generic Skills
Cambridge

FPGA falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cambridge.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 77 51 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 45.56% 31.48% 46.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 15 62
10th Percentile £374 £304 £180
25th Percentile £438 £381 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £494
90th Percentile £754 £645 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £515 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +8.42% +5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 4
10th Percentile £17.11 £23.39 -
25th Percentile £18.70 £45.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.13% +161.11%
75th Percentile £69.38 £66.56 £62.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -47.83% - +74.24%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing FPGA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing FPGA

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing FPGA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing FPGA

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing FPGA in Cambridge over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for FPGA in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Communications & Networking
1 13 (92.86%) 3GPP
1 13 (92.86%) LTE
General
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) DSP Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) RF Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (92.86%) IoT
1 13 (92.86%) NB-IoT
2 1 (7.14%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Validation
2 11 (78.57%) Digital Signal Processing
2 11 (78.57%) Kalman Filter
2 11 (78.57%) Signal Processing
3 1 (7.14%) Data Collection
3 1 (7.14%) FPGA Design
3 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Python
1 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
1 1 (7.14%) SystemVerilog
1 1 (7.14%) Tcl
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Xilinx