FPGA Design Contract Job Trends in England

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Design\Prototyping
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring FPGA Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 530 480 547
Rank change year-on-year -50 +67 +186
Contract jobs citing FPGA Design 14 27 24
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.045% 0.089% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.10% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 4
10th Percentile - - £553
25th Percentile £525 £450 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £580
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.79% +4.27%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £613
90th Percentile £650 - £635
UK median daily rate £550 £488 £560
% change year-on-year +12.82% -12.95% +0.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 13
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £75.00 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £95.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +35.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £100.00 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £95.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -21.05% +35.71% -2.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

FPGA Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,655 26,658 34,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.31% 87.92% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,614 16,424 23,309
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,796 941 1,445
10th Percentile £14.92 £15.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

FPGA Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

FPGA Design job vacancy trend in England

FPGA Design
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing FPGA Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing FPGA Design

FPGA Design
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing FPGA Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing FPGA Design

FPGA Design
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA Design within the England region over the 6 months to 12 December 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
East of England -22 7 - - 18
Midlands - 6 £550 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £550 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £650 - 1
FPGA Design
UK

FPGA Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (14.29%) Aerospace
1 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (14.29%) Law
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) FPGA Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Applications Support
2 2 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Design Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) FPGA Design Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Firmware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) FPGA
1 14 (100.00%) VHDL
2 8 (57.14%) Verilog
3 5 (35.71%) Algorithms
4 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
5 1 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Signal Processing
2 5 (35.71%) Digital Signal Processing
3 3 (21.43%) UVM
4 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 2 (14.29%) Development Roadmap
4 2 (14.29%) Information Management
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.14%) Agile
5 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.14%) Process Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Scrum
5 1 (7.14%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) MATLAB
2 4 (28.57%) C
3 3 (21.43%) SystemVerilog
4 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Degree
4 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) DO-254
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Firmware
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Xilinx
2 7 (50.00%) Intel
3 3 (21.43%) Microsemi
4 2 (14.29%) Lattice Semiconductor