FPGA Design Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring FPGA Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 346 385
Rank change year-on-year -41 +39 +95
Contract jobs citing FPGA Design 21 17 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 7
10th Percentile £65 £383 £469
25th Percentile £441 £413 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £560
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -15.18% +0.67%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £625
90th Percentile £601 - £650
UK median daily rate £550 £488 £560
% change year-on-year +12.82% -12.95% +0.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 13
10th Percentile £57.50 - £35.00
25th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £95.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +35.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £78.75 - -
90th Percentile £85.50 £98.50 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £95.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -21.05% +35.71% -2.78%

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 15,485 13,119 17,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.27% 86.67% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,460 7,700 11,333
10th Percentile £219 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,762 793 1,223
10th Percentile £14.26 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.23% -26.97% +37.98%
75th Percentile £48.41 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.77 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

FPGA Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FPGA Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

FPGA Design job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

FPGA Design
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing FPGA Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing FPGA Design

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 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FPGA Design in the UK excluding London

FPGA Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing FPGA Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing FPGA Design

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 -30 8 - - 16
Midlands - 7 £550 - 2
West Midlands - 6 £550 - 1
Scotland +7 5 £65 -84.71% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £425 -
East Midlands - 1 £650 - 1
FPGA Design
UK

FPGA Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) Rational DOORS
General
1 5 (23.81%) Electronics
2 4 (19.05%) Aerospace
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Law
4 1 (4.76%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (80.95%) FPGA Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Firmware Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Senior
2 5 (23.81%) Senior Firmware Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Design Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Applications Support
4 2 (9.52%) Applications Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Embedded Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior FPGA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Yocto
2 1 (4.76%) NumPy
2 1 (4.76%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 21 (100.00%) FPGA
2 20 (95.24%) VHDL
3 11 (52.38%) Verilog
4 5 (23.81%) Algorithms
4 5 (23.81%) PCIe
5 2 (9.52%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
6 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
6 1 (4.76%) MicroBlaze
6 1 (4.76%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Signal Processing
1 10 (47.62%) UVM
2 6 (28.57%) Digital Signal Processing
3 2 (9.52%) Agile
3 2 (9.52%) Customer Service
3 2 (9.52%) Development Roadmap
3 2 (9.52%) Information Management
3 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
3 2 (9.52%) Scrum
3 2 (9.52%) Validation
4 1 (4.76%) Architectural Design
4 1 (4.76%) CI/CD
4 1 (4.76%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (4.76%) Embedded Software Development
4 1 (4.76%) Process Improvement
4 1 (4.76%) Software Testing
4 1 (4.76%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (4.76%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) MATLAB
2 10 (47.62%) SystemVerilog
3 6 (28.57%) C
4 2 (9.52%) C++
4 2 (9.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
3 9 (42.86%) Degree
4 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) DO-254
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Firmware
Vendors
1 19 (90.48%) Xilinx
2 10 (47.62%) Intel
3 8 (38.10%) Microsemi
4 5 (23.81%) Altera
5 2 (9.52%) Actel
5 2 (9.52%) Lattice Semiconductor
6 1 (4.76%) Siemens