FPGA Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FPGA over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 - 113
Rank change year-on-year - - +63
Contract jobs citing FPGA 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.23% - 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.62% - 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 - £625
90th Percentile - - £640
England median daily rate £550 £475 £594
% change year-on-year +15.79% -20.00% -15.18%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

FPGA falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 806 511 694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 36.47% 28.26% 36.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 309 440
10th Percentile £250 £213 £275
25th Percentile £400 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +10.00% +2.30%
75th Percentile £588 £635 £625
90th Percentile £653 £725 £725
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 19 39
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.44 £17.01
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.40 £17.86
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +30.43% +23.11%
75th Percentile £40.46 £41.15 £67.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.65 £67.75
England median hourly rate £27.21 £38.54 £43.92
% change year-on-year -29.39% -12.26% +25.49%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FPGA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

FPGA job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

FPGA
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing FPGA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing FPGA

FPGA
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing FPGA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing FPGA

FPGA
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
Worcestershire - 5 £550 - 3
FPGA
England

FPGA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 5 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 5 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 5 (100.00%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Xilinx