FPGA Jobs in England

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited FPGA over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 767 872
Rank change year-on-year +187 +105 -163
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 255 165 253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.86% 0.42% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 178 80 110
10th Percentile £36,000 £37,634 £42,350
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -14.29% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70,938 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £83,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -14.29% +38.61%

All Generic Skills
England

FPGA is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29,711 38,999 61,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.64% 43.20% 46.72%
Number of salaries quoted 20,878 21,236 30,197
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,483 £34,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,570 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing FPGA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in England

FPGA
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for FPGA in England

FPGA
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing FPGA in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for FPGA in England

FPGA
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
South West +39 74 £51,500 -23.70% 32
South East +27 72 £52,500 -15.44% 53
East of England +44 49 £50,000 -18.37% 54
London +141 42 £122,500 +63.33% 23
North of England +6 11 £50,000 +17.65% 5
North West +13 10 £50,000 - 3
Midlands -17 7 £43,750 -60.23% 21
East Midlands -20 6 £43,750 -45.31% 12
Yorkshire +43 1 - - 2
West Midlands +9 1 - - 9
FPGA
UK

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.39%) Apache
1 1 (0.39%) Kinematics
1 1 (0.39%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (6.27%) Simulink
2 13 (5.10%) OrCAD
3 10 (3.92%) GNU Octave
4 5 (1.96%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (1.57%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 13 (5.10%) AWS
2 12 (4.71%) Azure
3 4 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.02%) Ethernet
2 18 (7.06%) TCP/IP
3 14 (5.49%) Wireless
4 13 (5.10%) Software-Defined Radio
4 13 (5.10%) WAN
5 12 (4.71%) 5G
6 11 (4.31%) SD-WAN
7 10 (3.92%) OFDM
8 5 (1.96%) 4G
8 5 (1.96%) RS-232
8 5 (1.96%) RS-485
9 3 (1.18%) DNS
9 3 (1.18%) DVB
9 3 (1.18%) NAS
9 3 (1.18%) SAN
10 2 (0.78%) Internet
10 2 (0.78%) LAN
10 2 (0.78%) SNMP
11 1 (0.39%) 3GPP
11 1 (0.39%) GSM
Development Applications
1 15 (5.88%) Git
2 13 (5.10%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.14%) GitLab
3 8 (3.14%) Subversion
4 7 (2.75%) LabVIEW
5 2 (0.78%) JUnit
5 2 (0.78%) PetaLinux
5 2 (0.78%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.39%) CMake
6 1 (0.39%) GCC
6 1 (0.39%) GDB
6 1 (0.39%) JIRA
General
1 97 (38.04%) Electronics
2 46 (18.04%) Analytical Skills
2 46 (18.04%) Finance
3 42 (16.47%) Social Skills
4 30 (11.76%) Manufacturing
5 24 (9.41%) Aerospace
6 17 (6.67%) Automotive
7 15 (5.88%) Telecoms
8 12 (4.71%) Public Sector
9 11 (4.31%) Marketing
10 10 (3.92%) Military
11 8 (3.14%) Front Office
12 5 (1.96%) Aviation
12 5 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.78%) Banking
15 2 (0.78%) Law
16 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
16 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (18.43%) Embedded Engineer
2 45 (17.65%) Electronics Engineer
3 44 (17.25%) Senior
4 40 (15.69%) Developer
5 37 (14.51%) Lead
6 34 (13.33%) Design Engineer
7 33 (12.94%) Software Engineer
8 31 (12.16%) Hardware Engineer
9 27 (10.59%) Systems Engineer
10 23 (9.02%) C++ Developer
10 23 (9.02%) Graduate
11 18 (7.06%) FPGA Developer
11 18 (7.06%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 16 (6.27%) FPGA Engineer
12 16 (6.27%) Lead Systems Engineer
13 15 (5.88%) Junior
14 14 (5.49%) Digital Design Engineer
14 14 (5.49%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 13 (5.10%) Electronics Design Engineer
15 13 (5.10%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.35%) Yocto
2 4 (1.57%) Flash
3 3 (1.18%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 2 (0.78%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (0.78%) LDAP
4 2 (0.78%) OpenMP
4 2 (0.78%) POSIX
4 2 (0.78%) STL
5 1 (0.39%) .NET
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Thrift
5 1 (0.39%) COM
5 1 (0.39%) CSS
5 1 (0.39%) Flask
5 1 (0.39%) HTML
5 1 (0.39%) HTML5
5 1 (0.39%) LLVM
5 1 (0.39%) Qt
5 1 (0.39%) React
5 1 (0.39%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 86 (33.73%) VHDL
2 34 (13.33%) Algorithms
2 34 (13.33%) Verilog
3 27 (10.59%) Embedded Systems
4 21 (8.24%) Analogue Electronics
5 20 (7.84%) Self-Motivation
6 19 (7.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (6.27%) PCIe
8 13 (5.10%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (4.71%) Equities
10 9 (3.53%) GNSS
11 8 (3.14%) MicroBlaze
12 6 (2.35%) CPLD
13 4 (1.57%) Device Driver
13 4 (1.57%) Hedge funds
14 3 (1.18%) ASIC
14 3 (1.18%) Fibre Optics
15 2 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
15 2 (0.78%) Fixed Income
15 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 71 (27.84%) Linux
2 11 (4.31%) Windows
3 8 (3.14%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (2.35%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (1.18%) Android
5 3 (1.18%) CentOS
5 3 (1.18%) Oracle Linux
5 3 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (23.14%) Software Engineering
2 58 (22.75%) FPGA Design
3 57 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (21.57%) Signal Processing
5 51 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 31 (12.16%) Low Latency
7 26 (10.20%) Physics
7 26 (10.20%) Schematic Capture
8 24 (9.41%) Customer Service
8 24 (9.41%) Validation
9 23 (9.02%) Mathematics
10 14 (5.49%) Kalman Filter
10 14 (5.49%) Mentoring
11 13 (5.10%) Customer Requirements
11 13 (5.10%) Memory Management
11 13 (5.10%) Multithreading
11 13 (5.10%) Test Automation
12 12 (4.71%) Software Testing
13 11 (4.31%) Business Intelligence
13 11 (4.31%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 117 (45.88%) C
2 107 (41.96%) C++
3 45 (17.65%) Java
4 36 (14.12%) Python
5 31 (12.16%) MATLAB
6 9 (3.53%) Perl
7 8 (3.14%) Bash
7 8 (3.14%) Tcl
7 8 (3.14%) VB
8 6 (2.35%) Embedded C
9 4 (1.57%) C#
9 4 (1.57%) SystemVerilog
10 2 (0.78%) Embedded C++
10 2 (0.78%) Haskell
10 2 (0.78%) Rust
10 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.39%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 129 (50.59%) Degree
2 41 (16.08%) Security Cleared
3 24 (9.41%) PhD
4 22 (8.63%) SC Cleared
5 13 (5.10%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (3.53%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.78%) HND
10 1 (0.39%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.14%) JTAG
2 3 (1.18%) ECSS
2 3 (1.18%) PMO
3 1 (0.39%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (0.39%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 96 (37.65%) Firmware
2 29 (11.37%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.96%) Ansible
2 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.39%) Nagios
2 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 29 (11.37%) EMC
2 26 (10.20%) Xilinx
3 13 (5.10%) Intel
4 11 (4.31%) SAP
5 8 (3.14%) Altera
5 8 (3.14%) Green Hills
5 8 (3.14%) Motorola
6 4 (1.57%) Mentor Graphics
6 4 (1.57%) Microsemi
6 4 (1.57%) Siemens
7 3 (1.18%) F5
7 3 (1.18%) Oracle
7 3 (1.18%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.78%) Keysight
9 1 (0.39%) CA
9 1 (0.39%) Dell
9 1 (0.39%) HP