Senior FPGA Engineer Job Trends in Bedford

Senior Field-Programmable Gate Array Engineer (Senior FPGA Engineer)
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The median Senior Field-Programmable Gate Array Engineer (Senior FPGA Engineer) salary in Bedford is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
12 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior FPGA Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bedford 0.39% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £77,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median annual salary £75,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Bedford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bedford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Bedford with a recognized job title 234 62 149
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 91.18% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 190 27 131
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,700 £24,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £43,325 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +32.50% -33.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £68,125 £48,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £95,000 £60,000
Bedfordshire median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -15.38%

Senior FPGA Engineer Skill Set
Top 7 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford

For the 6 months to 12 July 2026, Senior FPGA Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Bedford region featuring Senior FPGA Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Altera
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Xilinx

Senior FPGA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford 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 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
1 1 (100.00%) Verilog
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Altera
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) Xilinx
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