FPGA Design Job Trends in Cambridge

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Design\Prototyping
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring FPGA Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 50 63
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 -
Permanent jobs citing FPGA Design 2 7 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.39% 1.51% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 1.74% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £55,000
75th Percentile £85,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £80,000 - £55,000

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 407 402 435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 80.28% 86.45% 89.69%
Number of salaries quoted 278 193 288
10th Percentile £29,600 £38,750 £28,642
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

FPGA Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

FPGA Design job vacancy trend in Cambridge

FPGA Design
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing FPGA Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing FPGA Design

FPGA Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Design Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Project Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Project Leader
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Design Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior FPGA Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Project Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) FPGA
1 2 (100.00%) Verilog
1 2 (100.00%) VHDL
2 1 (50.00%) ASIC
2 1 (50.00%) IoT
2 1 (50.00%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Physics
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Management
2 1 (50.00%) Signal Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (50.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PhD