FPGA Contracts in the North of England

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FPGA 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 165 184 -
Rank change year-on-year +19 - -
Contract jobs citing FPGA 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.030% 0.021% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.099% 0.077% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +11.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £95.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -45.26% - -
England median hourly rate £80.00 £57.35 £61.18
% change year-on-year +39.49% -6.25% +9.24%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,008 1,302 1,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.59% 27.31% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 801 1,220
10th Percentile £220 £263 £285
25th Percentile £367 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £623
90th Percentile £665 £653 £688
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 154 88
10th Percentile £21.00 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.88 £15.14 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year +104.00% -18.70% +0.11%
75th Percentile £44.08 £26.62 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.98 £66.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing FPGA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in the North of England

FPGA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FPGA in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for FPGA in the North of England

FPGA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FPGA in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for FPGA in the North of England

FPGA
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the North of England 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
North East - 1 - - 4
FPGA
England

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) LabWindows
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian