FPGA Contracts in Edinburgh

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FPGA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FPGA 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.48% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £488 - £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £61.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £69.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 239 273 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.24% 33.50% 35.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 147 327
10th Percentile £208 £334 £242
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £510 £479
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% +6.47% -4.20%
75th Percentile £554 £600 £538
90th Percentile £638 £675 £625
Scotland median daily rate £467 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 3
10th Percentile - £14.88 £21.34
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £21.47
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.57 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -5.08% -54.38%
75th Percentile £24.38 £60.19 £37.71
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.75 £47.33
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
% change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in Edinburgh

FPGA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for FPGA in Edinburgh

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (33.33%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) LabWindows
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) LabVIEW
General
1 3 (100.00%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Verilog
1 2 (66.67%) VHDL
2 1 (33.33%) PCIe
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) FPGA Design
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) DO-254
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsemi
1 2 (66.67%) Xilinx
2 1 (33.33%) Altera
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (33.33%) Intel