FPGA Engineer Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Field-Programmable Gate Array Engineer (FPGA Engineer)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Field-Programmable Gate Array Engineer (FPGA Engineer) salary in Cambridgeshire is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 98 120
Rank change year-on-year +50 +22 +43
Permanent jobs requiring an FPGA Engineer 10 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.09% 0.13% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.24% 0.14% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - -
75th Percentile £52,500 - -
90th Percentile £54,450 - -
East of England median annual salary £45,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 446 1,454 1,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.11% 93.75% 86.93%
Number of salaries quoted 301 1,122 607
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,250 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%

FPGA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings that featured FPGA Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for FPGA Engineer in Cambridgeshire

FPGA Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FPGA Engineer in Cambridgeshire.

Salary trend for FPGA Engineer in Cambridgeshire

FPGA Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing FPGA Engineer in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for FPGA Engineer in Cambridgeshire

FPGA Engineer
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Huntingdon - 1 £68,000 -
FPGA Engineer
East of England

FPGA Engineer Skill Set
Top 8 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, FPGA Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring FPGA Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) VHDL
1 10 (100.00%) Verilog
1 10 (100.00%) FPGA
1 10 (100.00%) Firmware
1 10 (100.00%) FPGA Design
2 9 (90.00%) C#
2 9 (90.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (10.00%) Embedded Firmware

FPGA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) FPGA
1 10 (100.00%) Verilog
1 10 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) FPGA Design
2 9 (90.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) C#
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Firmware
2 1 (10.00%) Embedded Firmware