FPGA Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in contract job vacancies in Worcestershire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FPGA over the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - 16
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FPGA 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 1.21% - 1.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.26% - 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £529 - -
25th Percentile £534 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - £550
75th Percentile £584 - -
90th Percentile £586 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £563 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Generic Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 47 24 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 28.48% 46.15% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 12 18
10th Percentile £300 £116 £168
25th Percentile £450 £192 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +31.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £610
90th Percentile £750 £900 £638
West Midlands median daily rate £486 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.38% +5.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 10
10th Percentile £35.15 £15.22 £15.44
25th Percentile £42.50 £16.31 £16.54
Median hourly rate £45.00 £17.64 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +155.07% -0.44% -
75th Percentile £47.50 £19.32 -
90th Percentile - £23.27 £72.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.00 £19.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -17.39% +6.69%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

FPGA job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

FPGA
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing FPGA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing FPGA

FPGA
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 18 March 2026. 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
Malvern - 1 £550 - 1
FPGA
West Midlands

FPGA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) SciPy
1 1 (50.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (50.00%) MicroBlaze
1 1 (50.00%) RISC-V
1 1 (50.00%) Verilog
1 1 (50.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) UVM
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared