FPGA Engineer Jobs in Chelmsford

Field-Programmable Gate Array Engineer (FPGA Engineer)
Essex > Chelmsford

The median Field-Programmable Gate Array Engineer (FPGA Engineer) salary in Chelmsford is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 August 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Permanent jobs requiring an FPGA Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chelmsford 0.84% 0.92% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.08% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 -
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Chelmsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Chelmsford. 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 Chelmsford with a recognized job title 111 93 125
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 85.32% 83.33%
Number of salaries quoted 90 84 78
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £45,313 £43,392 £25,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £58,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% +23.68% -13.64%
75th Percentile £69,938 £60,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £79,000 £65,500 £70,449
Essex median annual salary £45,000 £48,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.22% +2.11% +0.79%

FPGA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Chelmsford

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA Engineer in Chelmsford

FPGA Engineer
Salary Trend in Chelmsford

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

Salary trend for FPGA Engineer in Chelmsford

FPGA Engineer Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chelmsford

For the 6 months to 3 August 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 Chelmsford region featuring FPGA Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Management
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Redmine
1 1 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) ECSS
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (100.00%) Verification and Validation

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

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Redmine
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA
1 1 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) FPGA Design
1 1 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ECSS
1 1 (100.00%) QA