FPGA Design Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Field-Programmable Gate Array Design Architect (FPGA Design Architect)
England > London

The median Field-Programmable Gate Array Design Architect (FPGA Design Architect) daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an FPGA Design Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.005% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £625 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 18,483 12,644 16,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 93.24% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,119 8,558 11,524
10th Percentile £360 £331 £330
25th Percentile £450 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 198 275
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £16.49
25th Percentile £22.31 £22.79 £20.98
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.90 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +26.20% +2.46% -19.40%
75th Percentile £59.99 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.71 £63.75 £69.20
England median hourly rate £45.56 £27.64 £40.33
% change year-on-year +64.82% -31.46% -6.22%

FPGA Design Architect Skill Set
Top 7 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 July 2026, FPGA Design Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring FPGA Design Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case

FPGA Design Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Radio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
1 1 (100.00%) Verilog
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared