FPGA Engineer Job Trends in the East of England

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

The median Field-Programmable Gate Array Engineer (FPGA Engineer) salary in the East of England is £64,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 168 123
Rank change year-on-year +14 -45 +121
Permanent jobs requiring an FPGA Engineer 6 17 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.15% 0.43% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.48% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £55,900 - -
25th Percentile £57,250 £61,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,300 - £63,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +13.64% -33.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 3,462 3,544 1,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.43% 90.20% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,128 1,750 1,345
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,188 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,300 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

FPGA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'FPGA Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

FPGA Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

FPGA Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for FPGA Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Salary distribution trend for FPGA Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

FPGA Engineer
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 Engineer 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
Cambridgeshire +9 2 £68,000 - 5
Essex -6 2 £60,000 -4.00%
Hertfordshire - 2 - - 13
FPGA Engineer
England

FPGA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 12 December 2025, FPGA Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East of England region featuring FPGA Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) FPGA Design
2 3 (50.00%) Xilinx
3 2 (33.33%) C
3 2 (33.33%) Intel
3 2 (33.33%) Mentor Graphics
3 2 (33.33%) Microsemi
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Requirements Management
3 2 (33.33%) Simulink
3 2 (33.33%) SystemVerilog
3 2 (33.33%) UVM
4 1 (16.67%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) Business Development
4 1 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (16.67%) ECSS
4 1 (16.67%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (16.67%) Firmware
4 1 (16.67%) Issue Tracking
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) PhD
4 1 (16.67%) Physics
4 1 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) QA
4 1 (16.67%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (16.67%) Redmine
4 1 (16.67%) Signal Processing
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering

FPGA Engineer Skill Set
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 (33.33%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (16.67%) Redmine
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 3 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) FPGA
1 6 (100.00%) VHDL
2 2 (33.33%) Verilog
3 1 (16.67%) ASIC
3 1 (16.67%) IoT
3 1 (16.67%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) FPGA Design
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Requirements Management
2 2 (33.33%) UVM
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) Business Development
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Physics
3 1 (16.67%) Signal Processing
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Trade-off Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C
1 2 (33.33%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ECSS
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Xilinx
2 2 (33.33%) Intel
2 2 (33.33%) Mentor Graphics
2 2 (33.33%) Microsemi