Senior FPGA Engineer Job Trends in Chelmsford

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

The median Senior Field-Programmable Gate Array Engineer (Senior FPGA Engineer) salary in Chelmsford is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 September 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior FPGA Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chelmsford 0.75% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £65,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median annual salary £60,000 - -

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 125 89 103
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 80.18% 88.79%
Number of salaries quoted 100 73 80
10th Percentile £29,925 £30,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,297 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £44,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +35.59% -15.71%
75th Percentile £66,750 - £65,813
90th Percentile £79,000 £70,000 £70,000
Essex median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -

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

For the 6 months to 9 September 2025, Senior 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 Senior 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

Senior 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