FPGA Contracts in Wales

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in contract job vacancies advertised in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FPGA over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 62 79
Rank change year-on-year +16 +17 -19
Contract jobs citing FPGA 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.25% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.74% 0.38% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £651 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +0.08% +62.50%
UK median daily rate £575 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +6.98% +7.50% +19.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82.00 - -
Median hourly rate £84.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.35 £61.50 £56.00
% change year-on-year -6.75% +9.82% +12.00%

All Generic Skills
Wales

FPGA is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 136 264 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 33.83% 41.64% 34.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 187 246
10th Percentile £164 £160 £155
25th Percentile £371 £215 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £445
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -4.55% -1.06%
75th Percentile £535 £538 £538
90th Percentile £573 £618 £638
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 15
10th Percentile - £12.61 -
25th Percentile £11.75 £15.25 £11.15
Median hourly rate £13.50 £17.03 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year -20.73% +6.07% +5.28%
75th Percentile £19.00 £19.81 £22.46
90th Percentile £45.80 £27.64 £27.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.00
% change year-on-year +33.42% -16.72% +2.16%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in Wales

FPGA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for FPGA in Wales

FPGA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for FPGA in Wales

FPGA
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the Wales region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
South Wales +16 1 - -
FPGA
UK

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Altera
1 1 (100.00%) Microsemi
1 1 (100.00%) Xilinx