FPGA Contracts in Staffordshire

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in contract job vacancies in Staffordshire. 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 15 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing FPGA 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 1.49% - 2.07%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.26% - 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £500
West Midlands median daily rate - £550 £550

All Generic Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19 32 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 28.36% 30.48% 35.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 31
10th Percentile - £243 £200
25th Percentile £140 £327 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £488 £528 £558
90th Percentile £546 £715 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 5
10th Percentile - £13.57 £19.54
25th Percentile - £14.71 £22.41
Median hourly rate - £15.61 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year - -68.47% -
75th Percentile - £16.67 £52.50
90th Percentile - £31.92 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year +25.24% -6.25% +51.32%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in Staffordshire

FPGA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for FPGA in Staffordshire

FPGA
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the Staffordshire 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
Burton-upon-Trent - 1 - -
FPGA
West Midlands

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Tcl