FPGA Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in contract job vacancies in County Antrim. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FPGA over the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FPGA 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 2.54% - 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.64% - 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £425 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £30.63
Median hourly rate - - £31.25
75th Percentile - - £31.88
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate - - £31.25

All Generic Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 47 74 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 23.86% 56.49% 26.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 39 24
10th Percentile £311 £135 £222
25th Percentile £413 £155 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £320 £500
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -36.00% +4.71%
75th Percentile £625 £396 £532
90th Percentile £653 £557 £638
Northern Ireland median daily rate £425 £320 £500
% change year-on-year +32.81% -36.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 2
10th Percentile £13.39 £22.50 £14.75
25th Percentile £15.00 £24.18 £17.40
Median hourly rate £19.10 £26.59 £22.12
Median % change year-on-year -28.17% +20.21% +59.80%
75th Percentile - £67.94 £27.15
90th Percentile £28.04 £80.05 £29.99
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £19.10 £26.59 £14.31
% change year-on-year -28.17% +85.81% +3.38%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FPGA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

FPGA job vacancy trend in County Antrim

FPGA
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing FPGA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing FPGA

FPGA
Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing FPGA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing FPGA

FPGA
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 24 February 2026. 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
Belfast - 5 £425 - 3
FPGA
Northern Ireland

FPGA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Embedded Linux Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Design Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) IP Design Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) IP Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Design Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior IP Design Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior IP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (60.00%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (40.00%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) FPGA Design
1 3 (60.00%) Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Adaptive Web Design
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C
1 3 (60.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SystemVerilog
2 2 (40.00%) Tcl