FPGA Contracts in Scotland

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in contract job vacancies in Scotland. 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 110 - 162
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing FPGA 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% - 0.035%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% - 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £376 - -
25th Percentile £397 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £500
75th Percentile £572 - -
90th Percentile £589 - -
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £538
% change year-on-year +4.35% +6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £61.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £69.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £57.35 £61.50
% change year-on-year +39.49% -6.75% +9.82%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in Scotland

FPGA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FPGA in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for FPGA in Scotland

FPGA
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FPGA in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FPGA in Scotland

FPGA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for FPGA in Scotland

FPGA
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh - 3 £425 - 8
Glasgow - 3 £550 - 3
FPGA
UK

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (16.67%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) LabWindows
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) LabVIEW
General
1 3 (50.00%) Electronics
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) VHDL
2 2 (33.33%) Verilog
3 1 (16.67%) PCIe
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) FPGA Design
2 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (16.67%) Line Management
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SystemVerilog
1 2 (33.33%) Tcl
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) DO-254
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsemi
1 2 (33.33%) Xilinx
2 1 (16.67%) Altera
2 1 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Intel