FPGA Design Contracts in the UK excluding London

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Design\Prototyping
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring FPGA Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FPGA Design 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 304 373 447
Rank change year-on-year +69 +74 +55
Contract jobs citing FPGA Design 32 26 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.13% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.15% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 4
10th Percentile £500 £255 £477
25th Percentile £563 £550 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £635 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +10.43% -
75th Percentile - £775 £613
90th Percentile - £792 £636
UK median daily rate £600 £635 £525
% change year-on-year -5.51% +20.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 18 3
10th Percentile £69.13 - £36.55
25th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £44.51
Median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £57.76
Median % change year-on-year - +38.50% -22.99%
75th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £64.88
90th Percentile £92.00 £85.30 £69.15
UK median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £57.76
% change year-on-year - +38.50% -22.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

FPGA Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing FPGA Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for FPGA Design in the UK excluding London

FPGA Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FPGA Design in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for FPGA Design in the UK excluding London

FPGA Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FPGA Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FPGA Design in the UK excluding London

FPGA Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FPGA Design in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for FPGA Design in the UK excluding London

FPGA Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing FPGA Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for FPGA Design in the UK excluding London

FPGA Design
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA Design within the UK excluding London 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
East of England +27 14 £575 - 22
South East +48 9 £600 -12.41% 21
Scotland - 5 £488 - 1
Midlands +24 3 £550 - 3
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
South West - 2 - - 8
West Midlands +14 1 - - 2
FPGA Design
UK

FPGA Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (43.75%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Git
1 5 (15.63%) Subversion
General
1 15 (46.88%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Electronics
2 2 (6.25%) Military
3 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 29 (90.63%) FPGA Engineer
2 13 (40.63%) Design Engineer
2 13 (40.63%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Firmware Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 32 (100.00%) FPGA
2 25 (78.13%) Verilog
3 22 (68.75%) VHDL
4 1 (3.13%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 10 (31.25%) Linux
1 10 (31.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) UVM
2 11 (34.38%) Signal Processing
3 10 (31.25%) Data Collection
3 10 (31.25%) Software Engineering
3 10 (31.25%) Validation
4 7 (21.88%) Test Scripting
5 2 (6.25%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 25 (78.13%) SystemVerilog
2 15 (46.88%) Python
2 15 (46.88%) Tcl
3 13 (40.63%) C
4 10 (31.25%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 15 (46.88%) Degree
2 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) DO-254
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Firmware
Vendors
1 25 (78.13%) Xilinx
2 15 (46.88%) Microsemi
3 14 (43.75%) Intel
4 1 (3.13%) Altera