FPGA Contracts in the South East

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in contract job vacancies in the South East. 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 143 159 203
Rank change year-on-year +16 +44 +51
Contract jobs citing FPGA 16 46 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.53% 0.83% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.59% 2.91% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 3
10th Percentile - £323 £331
25th Percentile - £519 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £436
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +31.91% -4.20%
75th Percentile - £705 £599
90th Percentile £675 £786 £679
England median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +11.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 34 10
10th Percentile - - £46.25
25th Percentile - £53.40 £50.00
Median hourly rate - £57.35 £58.33
Median % change year-on-year - -1.68% -
75th Percentile - £61.30 £66.45
90th Percentile - - £67.75
England median hourly rate £80.00 £57.35 £61.18
% change year-on-year +39.49% -6.25% +9.24%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,009 1,583 1,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 33.52% 28.48% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 936 1,323
10th Percentile £211 £205 £213
25th Percentile £360 £363 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £661 £688 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 154 90
10th Percentile £16.95 £11.74 £18.23
25th Percentile £23.50 £18.35 £20.48
Median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%
75th Percentile £64.13 £61.30 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.00 £75.00
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 South East

Job postings citing FPGA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in the South East

FPGA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FPGA in the South East.

Daily rate trend for FPGA in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for FPGA in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FPGA in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for FPGA in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the South East 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
Hampshire -7 5 £650 -11.56% 14
Thames Valley +42 1 - - 37
Kent - 1 - - 5
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 12
FPGA
England

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) RS-232
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Electronics
3 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.25%) Avionics
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) FPGA Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Hardware Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Hardware Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (81.25%) Verilog
2 5 (31.25%) VHDL
3 3 (18.75%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.25%) Device Driver
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
1 9 (56.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Validation
2 10 (62.50%) Software Engineering
3 9 (56.25%) Data Collection
3 9 (56.25%) FPGA Design
4 3 (18.75%) Digital Signal Processing
4 3 (18.75%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
4 3 (18.75%) Signal Processing
5 2 (12.50%) Cost Control
5 2 (12.50%) Schematic Capture
6 1 (6.25%) Agile
6 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
6 1 (6.25%) DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (6.25%) Programme Management
6 1 (6.25%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Python
2 9 (56.25%) Shell Script
2 9 (56.25%) SystemVerilog
2 9 (56.25%) Tcl
3 4 (25.00%) C++
4 3 (18.75%) Java
5 2 (12.50%) C
6 1 (6.25%) C#
6 1 (6.25%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Firmware
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Xilinx
2 4 (25.00%) Intel
3 3 (18.75%) Algorithmics
4 2 (12.50%) Mentor Graphics
5 1 (6.25%) SAP
5 1 (6.25%) Siemens