FPGA Contracts 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - 111
Rank change year-on-year - - +69
DemandTrendContract jobs citing FPGA 2 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.11% - 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% - 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £563
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £600
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - £625
England median daily rate £600 £488 £590
% change year-on-year +23.08% -17.30% -15.79%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 652 553 713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 37.34% 29.04% 33.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 342 437
10th Percentile £243 £231 £275
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £662 £618
90th Percentile £641 £750 £731
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 16 30
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.13 £19.83
25th Percentile £20.70 £17.75 £24.15
Median hourly rate £33.91 £21.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.24% -22.56% +44.74%
75th Percentile £50.00 £40.31 £64.06
90th Percentile - £53.13 £70.75
England median hourly rate £32.05 £50.00 £45.82
% change year-on-year -35.90% +9.12% +76.23%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing FPGA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in the West Midlands

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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
DemandTrendContract 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 28 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Worcestershire - 2 £550 - 3
FPGA
England

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 2 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 2 (100.00%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Xilinx