FPGA Design Engineer Contracts

FPGA Design Engineer
UK

The median FPGA Design Engineer daily rate in the UK is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 553 678
Rank change year-on-year +5 +125 +188
Contract jobs requiring an FPGA Design Engineer 5 17 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.043% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.047% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £618 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £725 £782 -
90th Percentile - £794 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £743 -
% change year-on-year -12.46% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 0
10th Percentile - £70.00 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £73.13 -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% - -
75th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.75 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -14.06% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 30,107 36,433 50,404
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 92.93% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,087 23,537 34,777
10th Percentile £282 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,495 2,061 1,513
10th Percentile £13.62 £14.16 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.05 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £38.95
% change year-on-year -42.71% +12.71% +83.08%

FPGA Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured FPGA Design Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for FPGA Design Engineer in the UK

FPGA Design Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for FPGA Design Engineer in the UK

FPGA Design Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for FPGA Design Engineer in the UK

FPGA Design Engineer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA Design Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 August 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
England +2 5 £650 +5.26% 15
UK excluding London -1 5 £650 -12.46% 10
East of England -1 4 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 £650 -
Midlands - 1 £650 - 2

FPGA Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, FPGA Design Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring FPGA Design Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) VHDL
1 5 (100.00%) FPGA
1 5 (100.00%) FPGA Design
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Xilinx
2 3 (60.00%) Verilog
3 2 (40.00%) C
3 2 (40.00%) Intel
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Simulink
3 2 (40.00%) Physics
3 2 (40.00%) Life Science
3 2 (40.00%) OpenUP
3 2 (40.00%) Lattice Semiconductor
3 2 (40.00%) Signal Processing
3 2 (40.00%) Military
3 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (40.00%) Microsemi
3 2 (40.00%) Application Security
3 2 (40.00%) SystemVerilog
3 2 (40.00%) UVM
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (20.00%) Git
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Firmware
4 1 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) Agile

FPGA Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (40.00%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (40.00%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) FPGA
1 5 (100.00%) VHDL
2 3 (60.00%) Verilog
3 2 (40.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) FPGA Design
2 2 (40.00%) Application Security
2 2 (40.00%) OpenUP
2 2 (40.00%) Physics
2 2 (40.00%) Signal Processing
2 2 (40.00%) UVM
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C
1 2 (40.00%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Xilinx
2 2 (40.00%) Intel
2 2 (40.00%) Lattice Semiconductor
2 2 (40.00%) Microsemi