FPGA Design Job Trends in Bolton

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Design\Prototyping
Manchester > Bolton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bolton requiring FPGA Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 33 14
Rank change year-on-year +16 -19 -
Permanent jobs citing FPGA Design 3 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Bolton 4.41% 1.75% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.45% 1.83% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £50,000
75th Percentile £77,500 - £55,000
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £75,000 - £51,500

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bolton

FPGA Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bolton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 55 109 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bolton 80.88% 95.61% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29 67 35
10th Percentile £29,750 £24,649 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £29,750 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +55.04%
75th Percentile £57,500 £50,625 £55,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £66,500
Manchester median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% +2.61%

FPGA Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing FPGA Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bolton.

FPGA Design job vacancy trend in Bolton

FPGA Design
Salary Trend in Bolton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing FPGA Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing FPGA Design

FPGA Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton 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:

Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Simulink
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) FPGA Design Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (100.00%) FPGA
1 3 (100.00%) Verilog
1 3 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Intel
1 3 (100.00%) Microsemi
1 3 (100.00%) Xilinx