FPGA Design Contracts

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 480 550 699
Rank change year-on-year +70 +149 +147
Contract jobs citing FPGA Design 40 32 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.073% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.085% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 7
10th Percentile £500 £255 £449
25th Percentile £563 £550 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £635 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +20.95% -
75th Percentile - £775 £588
90th Percentile - £792 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £635 £575
% change year-on-year -5.51% +10.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 18 3
10th Percentile £69.25 - £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 £91.50 £85.30 £69.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £80.00 £57.76
% change year-on-year - +38.50% -22.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

FPGA Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA Design in the UK

FPGA Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for FPGA Design in the UK

FPGA Design
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for FPGA Design in the UK

FPGA Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for FPGA Design in the UK

FPGA Design
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for FPGA Design in the UK

FPGA Design
Top 11 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 within the UK 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
England +60 34 £600 -5.51% 58
UK excluding London +69 32 £600 -5.51% 55
East of England +27 14 £575 - 22
South East +48 9 £600 -12.41% 21
London +38 6 - - 8
Scotland - 5 £488 - 1
Midlands +24 3 £550 - 3
Work from Home +24 2 - - 24
South West - 2 - - 8
East Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
West Midlands +14 1 - - 2

FPGA Design
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 14 (35.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Git
1 5 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Electronics
3 2 (5.00%) Finance
3 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.00%) Marketing
3 2 (5.00%) Military
3 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 37 (92.50%) FPGA Engineer
2 13 (32.50%) Design Engineer
2 13 (32.50%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Senior
3 4 (10.00%) Senior FPGA Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Firmware Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 40 (100.00%) FPGA
2 31 (77.50%) Verilog
3 28 (70.00%) VHDL
4 5 (12.50%) PCIe
5 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Linux
1 10 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) UVM
2 11 (27.50%) Signal Processing
3 10 (25.00%) Data Collection
3 10 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 10 (25.00%) Validation
4 7 (17.50%) Test Scripting
5 4 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (10.00%) Machine Learning
5 4 (10.00%) Prototyping
5 4 (10.00%) Risk Analysis
6 2 (5.00%) Application Security
6 2 (5.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (5.00%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (5.00%) Programme Management
6 2 (5.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 31 (77.50%) SystemVerilog
2 19 (47.50%) Python
2 19 (47.50%) Tcl
3 13 (32.50%) C
4 10 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 17 (42.50%) Degree
2 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) DO-254
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 31 (77.50%) Xilinx
2 18 (45.00%) Intel
3 15 (37.50%) Microsemi
4 2 (5.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.50%) Altera