FPGA Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited FPGA over the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 132 124
Rank change year-on-year -25 -8 +69
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 18 49 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.54% 1.17% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.46% 3.54% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 13 22 13
10th Percentile £53,000 - -
25th Percentile £57,000 £50,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,188 £61,250
90th Percentile £84,000 £74,750 £64,500
England median annual salary £68,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +23.64% -8.33% -14.29%

All Generic Skills
East of England

FPGA falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,235 1,384 942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 37.01% 32.95% 42.43%
Number of salaries quoted 592 585 591
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £54,250 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.58% -4.00% -

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

FPGA job vacancy trend in the East of England

FPGA
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

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

FPGA
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing FPGA in the East of England over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Salary histogram for FPGA in the East of England

FPGA
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 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 25 October 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 +4 9 £68,000 +4.62% 23
Hertfordshire +7 5 £75,000 +50.00% 24
Essex -4 4 £60,000 -6.25% 5
FPGA
England

FPGA
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 (11.11%) Simulink
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
1 2 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (5.56%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Redmine
2 1 (5.56%) Subversion
General
1 5 (27.78%) Electronics
2 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) FPGA Engineer
2 9 (50.00%) Design Engineer
3 7 (38.89%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 7 (38.89%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) Lead
5 2 (11.11%) Designer
5 2 (11.11%) FPGA Designer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Design Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Designer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior FPGA Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Digital Design Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Hardware Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Head of Development
6 1 (5.56%) Project Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Radio Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) RF Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior DSP Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Hardware Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Validation Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Verification Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (83.33%) VHDL
2 11 (61.11%) Verilog
3 2 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (5.56%) ASIC
4 1 (5.56%) IoT
4 1 (5.56%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) FPGA Design
2 3 (16.67%) Signal Processing
2 3 (16.67%) Validation
3 2 (11.11%) AI
3 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Engineering
3 2 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
3 2 (11.11%) Requirements Management
3 2 (11.11%) UVM
3 2 (11.11%) Verification and Validation
4 1 (5.56%) Business Development
4 1 (5.56%) Configuration Management
4 1 (5.56%) Physics
4 1 (5.56%) Power Management
4 1 (5.56%) Product Management
4 1 (5.56%) Prototyping
4 1 (5.56%) Software Engineering
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (5.56%) Trade-off Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) C
1 3 (16.67%) SystemVerilog
2 2 (11.11%) C++
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) ECSS
1 1 (5.56%) MISRA
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Firmware
2 5 (27.78%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Xilinx
2 2 (11.11%) Intel
2 2 (11.11%) Mentor Graphics
2 2 (11.11%) Microsemi
3 1 (5.56%) EMC
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft