FPGA Design Job Trends in the East of England

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Design\Prototyping
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring FPGA Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 166 127
Rank change year-on-year +18 -39 +108
Permanent jobs citing FPGA Design 12 19 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.31% 0.48% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.58% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 6
10th Percentile £56,400 £56,000 -
25th Percentile £62,250 £59,375 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +100.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £50,000
90th Percentile - - £58,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £66,250 £51,500
% change year-on-year +13.21% +28.64% -39.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,024 3,282 1,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 78.12% 83.53% 92.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,804 1,395 1,283
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,100 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £43,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,750 £69,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

FPGA Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

FPGA Design job vacancy trend in the East of England

FPGA Design
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing FPGA Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing FPGA Design

FPGA Design
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing FPGA Design in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Salary histogram for FPGA Design in the East of England

FPGA Design
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA Design within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 December 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
Hertfordshire +20 6 £85,000 +28.30% 16
Cambridgeshire +10 3 £74,000 -
Essex - 3 £59,500 -
FPGA Design
England

FPGA Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (16.67%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (8.33%) Redmine
1 1 (8.33%) Subversion
General
1 4 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 4 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Senior
2 6 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
3 5 (41.67%) Design Engineer
4 4 (33.33%) Designer
4 4 (33.33%) FPGA Designer
4 4 (33.33%) Senior Designer
5 3 (25.00%) FPGA Design Engineer
5 3 (25.00%) Lead
6 2 (16.67%) Senior Design Engineer
6 2 (16.67%) Senior FPGA Engineer
7 1 (8.33%) Electronics Design Engineer
7 1 (8.33%) Electronics Engineer
7 1 (8.33%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
7 1 (8.33%) Hardware Engineer
7 1 (8.33%) Project Engineer
7 1 (8.33%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
7 1 (8.33%) Senior Electronics Engineer
7 1 (8.33%) Senior Hardware Design Engineer
7 1 (8.33%) Senior Hardware Engineer
7 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Leader
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) FPGA
2 9 (75.00%) VHDL
3 5 (41.67%) Verilog
4 1 (8.33%) ASIC
4 1 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (8.33%) IoT
4 1 (8.33%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) AI
1 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (16.67%) Requirements Management
1 2 (16.67%) Signal Processing
1 2 (16.67%) UVM
1 2 (16.67%) Validation
2 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (8.33%) Issue Tracking
2 1 (8.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (8.33%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (8.33%) Physics
2 1 (8.33%) Power Management
2 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (8.33%) Product Management
2 1 (8.33%) Schematic Capture
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (8.33%) Trade-off Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C
1 3 (25.00%) SystemVerilog
2 2 (16.67%) C++
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ECSS
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (8.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Xilinx
2 2 (16.67%) Intel
2 2 (16.67%) Mentor Graphics
2 2 (16.67%) Microsemi
3 1 (8.33%) EMC