FPGA Design Engineer Jobs in England

FPGA Design Engineer
UK > England

The median FPGA Design Engineer salary in England is £69,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 645 819 945
Rank change year-on-year +174 +126 +192
Permanent jobs requiring an FPGA Design Engineer 3 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.007% 0.004% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.004% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £64,100 £49,500 £53,375
25th Percentile £64,250 £50,625 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £57,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.80% -25.00%
75th Percentile £74,250 £66,875 £71,563
90th Percentile £74,700 £67,250 £75,125
UK median annual salary £68,000 £57,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year +18.26% -9.80% -25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 41,506 80,486 84,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,507 60,251 53,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

FPGA Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured FPGA Design Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for FPGA Design Engineer in England

FPGA Design Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for FPGA Design Engineer in England

FPGA Design Engineer
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 Design Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East of England - 2 £68,000 - 2
South East +108 1 £70,000 +19.15% 2
FPGA Design Engineer
UK

FPGA Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, FPGA Design 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 England region featuring FPGA Design Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) VHDL
1 3 (100.00%) FPGA
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Verilog
2 2 (66.67%) Signal Processing
2 2 (66.67%) FPGA Design
3 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) SystemVerilog
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (33.33%) Design for Manufacturing
3 1 (33.33%) PetaLinux
3 1 (33.33%) Freescale
3 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (33.33%) Rust
3 1 (33.33%) RS-485
3 1 (33.33%) Yocto
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Xilinx
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Ethernet

FPGA Design Engineer Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (33.33%) RS-485
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) PetaLinux
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) FPGA
1 3 (100.00%) VHDL
2 2 (66.67%) Verilog
3 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) FPGA Design
1 2 (66.67%) Signal Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Design for Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Rust
1 1 (33.33%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Altera
1 1 (33.33%) EMC
1 1 (33.33%) Freescale
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) Xilinx