FPGA Contracts in the East of England

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FPGA over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 86 94
Rank change year-on-year +20 +8 +25
Contract jobs citing FPGA 22 26 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.07% 1.33% 1.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.29% 5.19% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 2
10th Percentile - £551 £491
25th Percentile £519 £591 £542
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £631
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -0.99% +13.48%
75th Percentile £556 £638 £717
90th Percentile £575 - £767
England median daily rate £600 £550 £579
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.01% +9.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 1
10th Percentile £62.50 - -
25th Percentile £66.00 £70.00 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +25.00%
75th Percentile £88.00 £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £90.00 -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £57.35 £53.88
% change year-on-year +39.49% +6.44% -3.79%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 416 501 575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 39.17% 25.60% 29.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 236 363
10th Percentile £195 £178 £205
25th Percentile £379 £290 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £598
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 126 36
10th Percentile £16.95 £12.86 £20.50
25th Percentile £21.45 £24.81 £21.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% +1.28% +78.14%
75th Percentile £80.76 £65.00 £66.69
90th Percentile £87.50 £80.63 £71.88
England median hourly rate £33.05 £37.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -10.68% +64.55% -15.15%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in the East of England

FPGA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FPGA in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for FPGA in the East of England

FPGA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FPGA in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for FPGA in the East of England

FPGA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing FPGA in the East of England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for FPGA in the East of England

FPGA
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the East of England region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Hertfordshire +21 9 £538 - 24
Bedfordshire - 8 - - 14
Cambridgeshire +9 3 £575 -8.00% 45
Essex +13 2 - - 12
FPGA
England

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of 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:

Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) Ethernet
2 4 (18.18%) 5G
2 4 (18.18%) 5G NR
2 4 (18.18%) Software-Defined Radio
2 4 (18.18%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Redmine
2 1 (4.55%) Subversion
General
1 7 (31.82%) Electronics
2 6 (27.27%) Games
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 2 (9.09%) Military
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) FPGA Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Design Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Firmware Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Principal Hardware Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (54.55%) Verilog
2 9 (40.91%) VHDL
3 8 (36.36%) PCIe
4 6 (27.27%) Algorithms
5 4 (18.18%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (9.09%) Life Science
7 1 (4.55%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) UVM
2 9 (40.91%) Physics
3 8 (36.36%) FPGA Design
4 6 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (27.27%) Computer Science
4 6 (27.27%) Cryptography
4 6 (27.27%) Customer Requirements
4 6 (27.27%) Machine Learning
4 6 (27.27%) Signal Processing
5 2 (9.09%) Application Security
5 2 (9.09%) OpenUP
5 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering
5 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
5 2 (9.09%) Validation
6 1 (4.55%) CI/CD
6 1 (4.55%) Data Collection
6 1 (4.55%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (4.55%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
6 1 (4.55%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) SystemVerilog
2 7 (31.82%) MATLAB
2 7 (31.82%) Tcl
3 4 (18.18%) C
4 2 (9.09%) Python
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) C++
5 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (54.55%) Degree
2 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
3 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
4 7 (31.82%) HNC
4 7 (31.82%) HND
5 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
6 1 (4.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) DO-254
2 1 (4.55%) ECSS
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Firmware
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Xilinx
2 10 (45.45%) Intel
2 10 (45.45%) Microsemi
3 6 (27.27%) Actel
3 6 (27.27%) Altera
4 2 (9.09%) Lattice Semiconductor