FPGA Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FPGA over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 43 52
Rank change year-on-year +15 +9 +20
Contract jobs citing FPGA 16 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 4.91% 1.65% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.91% 8.05% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £506 £551 -
25th Percentile £525 £591 £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 - -
East of England median daily rate £556 £625 £631
% change year-on-year -11.00% -0.99% +13.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile £82.50 - -
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +25.00%

All Generic Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 115 87 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 35.28% 20.47% 26.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 40 84
10th Percentile £195 £178 £188
25th Percentile £363 £345 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £459 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.05% +1.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £525
90th Percentile £738 £638 £588
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 4
10th Percentile £14.00 £28.25 -
25th Percentile £18.40 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £52.75 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.13% -10.21% +111.71%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £73.88 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +60.00%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in Cambridgeshire

FPGA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FPGA in Cambridgeshire.

Daily rate trend for FPGA in Cambridgeshire

FPGA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FPGA in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for FPGA in Cambridgeshire

FPGA
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing FPGA in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for FPGA in Cambridgeshire

FPGA
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 15 August 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge +8 14 £588 -6.00% 22
FPGA
East of England

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (81.25%) 3GPP
1 13 (81.25%) LTE
General
1 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) DSP Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Design Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) RF Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (81.25%) IoT
1 13 (81.25%) NB-IoT
2 2 (12.50%) Life Science
2 2 (12.50%) VHDL
3 1 (6.25%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Validation
2 11 (68.75%) Digital Signal Processing
2 11 (68.75%) Kalman Filter
2 11 (68.75%) Signal Processing
3 3 (18.75%) FPGA Design
4 2 (12.50%) OpenUP
4 2 (12.50%) Physics
5 1 (6.25%) Data Collection
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Python
1 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
1 1 (6.25%) SystemVerilog
1 1 (6.25%) Tcl
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Lattice Semiconductor
2 1 (6.25%) Xilinx