FPGA Jobs in Kent

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
South East > Kent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in permanent job vacancies in Kent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited FPGA over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 - 102
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 7 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.98% - 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.41% - 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £53,250 - £71,875
25th Percentile £56,250 - £72,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £76,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +38.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £80,313
90th Percentile £71,750 - £81,625
South East median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £62,086
% change year-on-year +19.05% -15.44% +12.88%

All Generic Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 205 537 560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 28.59% 36.09% 48.61%
Number of salaries quoted 146 346 256
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £34,988 £30,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,325 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.83% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £57,813
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,125 £65,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.35% -10.91% -

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in Kent

FPGA
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for FPGA in Kent

FPGA
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing FPGA in Kent over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for FPGA in Kent

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (14.29%) OrCAD
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
General
1 6 (85.71%) Electronics
2 5 (71.43%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Hardware Engineer
1 6 (85.71%) Senior
1 6 (85.71%) Senior Hardware Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Design Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Hardware Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Hardware Design Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Design Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Firmware Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Hardware Design Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Analogue Electronics
1 7 (100.00%) VHDL
2 6 (85.71%) Life Science
3 1 (14.29%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (14.29%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Architectural Design
1 6 (85.71%) CAD
1 6 (85.71%) Schematic Capture
2 5 (71.43%) Prototyping
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Signal Processing
3 1 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Kernel Development
3 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
3 1 (14.29%) Signal Processing
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Statistics
3 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C
2 6 (85.71%) C++
3 5 (71.43%) C#
3 5 (71.43%) Java
3 5 (71.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Firmware
2 1 (14.29%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) EMC
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft