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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 766 879
Rank change year-on-year +185 +113 -197
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 255 163 252
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 80 109
10th Percentile £36,000 £37,634 £42,200
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 £90,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -14.29% +37.25%

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 29,731 38,836 62,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.62% 43.17% 46.74%
Number of salaries quoted 20,871 21,201 30,263
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,427 £34,825
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 10 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 10 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 +41 74 £51,500 -23.70% 32
South East +34 71 £52,500 -15.44% 59
East of England +44 49 £50,000 -18.37% 63
London +152 43 £122,500 +63.33% 24
North of England 0 11 £50,000 +17.65% 5
North West +2 10 £50,000 - 3
Midlands -22 7 £43,750 -60.23% 20
East Midlands -19 6 £43,750 -45.31% 14
Yorkshire +41 1 - - 2
West Midlands -3 1 - - 6
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 2 (0.78%) Apache
1 2 (0.78%) nginx
2 1 (0.39%) Kinematics
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 19 (7.45%) 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 4 (1.57%) DNS
9 4 (1.57%) NAS
9 4 (1.57%) SAN
10 3 (1.18%) DVB
11 2 (0.78%) DHCP
11 2 (0.78%) Internet
11 2 (0.78%) LAN
11 2 (0.78%) SNMP
12 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 96 (37.65%) Electronics
2 47 (18.43%) Finance
3 45 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (16.47%) Social Skills
5 30 (11.76%) Manufacturing
6 24 (9.41%) Aerospace
7 17 (6.67%) Automotive
8 15 (5.88%) Telecoms
9 12 (4.71%) Public Sector
10 11 (4.31%) Marketing
11 10 (3.92%) Military
12 8 (3.14%) Front Office
13 5 (1.96%) Aviation
13 5 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.18%) Banking
15 3 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.78%) Law
17 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
17 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 32 (12.55%) 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 85 (33.33%) VHDL
2 34 (13.33%) Verilog
3 33 (12.94%) Algorithms
4 27 (10.59%) Embedded Systems
5 20 (7.84%) Analogue Electronics
5 20 (7.84%) Self-Motivation
6 18 (7.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (6.27%) PCIe
8 12 (4.71%) Equities
8 12 (4.71%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (3.53%) GNSS
10 8 (3.14%) MicroBlaze
11 6 (2.35%) CPLD
12 4 (1.57%) Device Driver
12 4 (1.57%) Hedge funds
13 3 (1.18%) ASIC
13 3 (1.18%) Fibre Optics
14 2 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
14 2 (0.78%) Fixed Income
14 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 72 (28.24%) Linux
2 11 (4.31%) Windows
3 8 (3.14%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (2.35%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (1.57%) CentOS
5 4 (1.57%) Oracle Linux
5 4 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.18%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (22.75%) FPGA Design
1 58 (22.75%) Software Engineering
2 56 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (21.18%) Signal Processing
4 51 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 31 (12.16%) Low Latency
6 25 (9.80%) Physics
6 25 (9.80%) Schematic Capture
7 24 (9.41%) Customer Service
7 24 (9.41%) Validation
8 22 (8.63%) Mathematics
9 14 (5.49%) Kalman Filter
9 14 (5.49%) Mentoring
10 13 (5.10%) Customer Requirements
10 13 (5.10%) Memory Management
10 13 (5.10%) Multithreading
10 13 (5.10%) Test Automation
11 12 (4.71%) Software Testing
12 11 (4.31%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (4.31%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (45.49%) C
2 106 (41.57%) C++
3 45 (17.65%) Java
4 37 (14.51%) Python
5 31 (12.16%) MATLAB
6 10 (3.92%) 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
1 128 (50.20%) Degree
2 40 (15.69%) Security Cleared
3 23 (9.02%) PhD
4 21 (8.24%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.71%) 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 6 (2.35%) Ansible
2 2 (0.78%) Nagios
2 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
2 2 (0.78%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
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%) F5
6 4 (1.57%) Mentor Graphics
6 4 (1.57%) Microsemi
6 4 (1.57%) Oracle
6 4 (1.57%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.57%) Siemens
7 2 (0.78%) Dell
7 2 (0.78%) HP
7 2 (0.78%) Keysight
8 1 (0.39%) CA