FPGA Contracts in Luton

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in contract job vacancies in Luton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FPGA over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FPGA 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Luton 6.13% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 13.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £60 - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £60 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £70.80 - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - -
Median hourly rate £88.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £89.80 - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £88.00 - -

All Generic Skills
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 75 35 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 46.01% 31.53% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 20 11
10th Percentile £159 £463 £320
25th Percentile £456 £500 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £555 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% +13.85% -2.50%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £519
90th Percentile £660 £650 £550
Bedfordshire median daily rate £575 £550 £463
% change year-on-year +4.55% +18.92% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 2
10th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £58.50
25th Percentile £67.50 £67.50 £63.75
Median hourly rate £82.50 £77.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +6.90% +314.29%
75th Percentile £88.00 £80.63 £81.25
90th Percentile £91.25 £81.00 £86.50
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £77.50 £62.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +24.00% -13.79% +314.29%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in Luton

FPGA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Luton

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

Hourly rate trend for FPGA in Luton

FPGA
Hourly Rate Histogram in Luton

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing FPGA in Luton over the 6 months to 7 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for FPGA in Luton

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Luton 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 9 (90.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) Ethernet
General
1 9 (90.00%) Electronics
2 8 (80.00%) Games
3 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Firmware Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) PCIe
1 9 (90.00%) Verilog
2 8 (80.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (10.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Physics
1 9 (90.00%) UVM
2 8 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 8 (80.00%) Cryptography
2 8 (80.00%) Machine Learning
3 7 (70.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Signal Processing
4 1 (10.00%) FPGA Design
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Signal Processing
4 1 (10.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) MATLAB
1 9 (90.00%) SystemVerilog
2 8 (80.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (90.00%) HNC
2 9 (90.00%) HND
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) DO-254
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Actel
1 8 (80.00%) Altera
1 8 (80.00%) Intel
1 8 (80.00%) Microsemi
1 8 (80.00%) Xilinx