FPGA Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FPGA over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 - 130
Rank change year-on-year - - +64
Contract jobs citing FPGA 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.19% - 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% - 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 - £625
90th Percentile £650 - £640
England median daily rate £550 £475 £594
% change year-on-year +15.79% -20.00% -15.18%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,102 704 870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 35.65% 28.06% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 411 572
10th Percentile £238 £225 £263
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £615
90th Percentile £638 £713 £725
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 24 50
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.14 £16.65
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £30.23 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +32.86% +28.39%
75th Percentile £31.00 £49.06 £64.63
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.18 £68.88
England median hourly rate £27.21 £38.54 £43.92
% change year-on-year -29.39% -12.26% +25.49%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

FPGA job vacancy trend in the Midlands

FPGA
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing FPGA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing FPGA

FPGA
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing FPGA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing FPGA

FPGA
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
West Midlands - 5 £550 - 3
East Midlands - 1 £650 - 3
FPGA
England

FPGA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Rational DOORS
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) FPGA Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) VHDL
2 5 (83.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (16.67%) Verilog
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) FPGA Design
2 5 (83.33%) Digital Signal Processing
2 5 (83.33%) Signal Processing
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) MATLAB
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Xilinx