FPGA Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
South East > Hampshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in contract job vacancies in Hampshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FPGA over the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 62 84
Rank change year-on-year -32 +22 +12
Contract jobs citing FPGA 3 3 11
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.21% 0.41% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.86% 1.32% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - - £547
25th Percentile £709 £625 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £718 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% +6.12% -13.12%
75th Percentile £726 £675 £647
90th Percentile - - £718
South East median daily rate £718 £650 £600
% change year-on-year +10.38% +8.33% -1.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £88.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £88.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -4.71%

All Generic Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 349 227 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 24.44% 31.05% 25.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 153 178
10th Percentile £325 £336 £350
25th Percentile £453 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £518 £475
% change year-on-year -3.38% +8.95% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 33
10th Percentile £15.27 £26.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £31.25 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £33.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -38.64% +20.88%
75th Percentile £56.88 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.68 £71.63 £77.40
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £33.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -18.52% -28.95% -

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

FPGA job vacancy trend in Hampshire

FPGA
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing FPGA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing FPGA

FPGA
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing FPGA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing FPGA

FPGA
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Southampton - 3 £718 - 6
FPGA
South East

FPGA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) FPGA Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior FPGA Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) VHDL
2 2 (66.67%) Verilog
3 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) FPGA Design
1 2 (66.67%) Requirements Management
1 2 (66.67%) UVM
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Signal Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) DO-254
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Actel
1 2 (66.67%) Altera
1 2 (66.67%) Intel
1 2 (66.67%) Mentor Graphics
1 2 (66.67%) Microsemi
1 2 (66.67%) Xilinx