FPGA Design Contracts in Hertfordshire

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Design\Prototyping
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring FPGA Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FPGA Design 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 32 56 68
Rank change year-on-year +24 +12 +2
Contract jobs citing FPGA Design 13 17 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.05% 2.04% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 2.26% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate £575 - £463
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 1
10th Percentile £70.00 - -
25th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -4.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £93.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 753 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 88.79% 90.29% 86.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 277 374
10th Percentile £384 £232 £240
25th Percentile £446 £315 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £705 £768
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 314 156
10th Percentile £22.65 £38.12 £21.00
25th Percentile £47.50 £40.00 £53.69
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -23.08% +27.83%
75th Percentile £79.82 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.25
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

FPGA Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA Design in Hertfordshire

FPGA Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FPGA Design in Hertfordshire.

Daily rate trend for FPGA Design in Hertfordshire

FPGA Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for FPGA Design in Hertfordshire

FPGA Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing FPGA Design in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for FPGA Design in Hertfordshire

FPGA Design
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Stevenage +26 13 - - 7
FPGA Design
East of England

FPGA Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 13 (100.00%) Simulink
General
1 2 (15.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 13 (100.00%) FPGA Design Engineer
1 13 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) FPGA
1 13 (100.00%) Verilog
1 13 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) UVM
2 11 (84.62%) Signal Processing
3 2 (15.38%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) C
1 13 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Intel
1 13 (100.00%) Microsemi
1 13 (100.00%) Xilinx