FPGA Design Contract Job Trends in Newport

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Design\Prototyping
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newport requiring FPGA Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing FPGA Design 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 1.12% - 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% - 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South Wales median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.25 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £84.50 - £72.50
75th Percentile £84.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £84.50 - £72.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newport

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 Newport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72 21 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 80.90% 100.00% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 12 21
10th Percentile - £265 £185
25th Percentile £375 £366 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £431 £400
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +7.81% -27.27%
75th Percentile £550 £479 -
90th Percentile £598 £584 £518
South Wales median daily rate £500 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +21.21% -2.94% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 27
10th Percentile £48.33 - £15.20
25th Percentile - - £20.12
Median hourly rate £55.00 £85.00 £25.36
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +235.17% -49.28%
75th Percentile £69.25 - £48.13
90th Percentile £75.08 - £51.50
South Wales median hourly rate £43.96 £17.65 £25.00
% change year-on-year +149.10% -29.41% -16.20%

FPGA Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

FPGA Design job vacancy trend in Newport

FPGA Design
Daily Rate Trend in Newport

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing FPGA Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing FPGA Design

FPGA Design
Hourly Rate Trend in Newport

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing FPGA Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing FPGA Design

FPGA Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
1 1 (100.00%) Verilog
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Altera
1 1 (100.00%) Microsemi
1 1 (100.00%) Xilinx