FPGA Job Trends in London

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited FPGA over the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 393 453
Rank change year-on-year +32 +60 +208
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 23 26 34
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.14% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% 0.41% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 22
10th Percentile - £79,375 £45,000
25th Percentile £145,000 £95,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £150,000 £113,750 £123,750
Median % change year-on-year +31.87% -8.08% +106.25%
75th Percentile £155,000 £129,375 £129,063
90th Percentile - £157,500 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,329 6,281 8,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 38.14% 43.89% 40.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,754 3,334 6,634
10th Percentile £36,325 £43,125 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £126,250 £130,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.40% +13.64% -15.38%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

FPGA job vacancy trend in London

FPGA
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing FPGA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing FPGA

FPGA
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the London region over the 6 months to 7 March 2026. 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
Central London +28 3 £150,000 +46.34% 5
North London +6 1 - -
FPGA
England

FPGA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) Apache
1 2 (8.70%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 21 (91.30%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.70%) DHCP
2 2 (8.70%) DNS
2 2 (8.70%) LAN
2 2 (8.70%) NAS
2 2 (8.70%) SAN
2 2 (8.70%) SNMP
2 2 (8.70%) WAN
General
1 21 (91.30%) Finance
2 19 (82.61%) Banking
2 19 (82.61%) Investment Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (86.96%) Developer
2 19 (82.61%) C++ Developer
2 19 (82.61%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
2 19 (82.61%) Linux Developer
2 19 (82.61%) Linux Scripter
2 19 (82.61%) Low Latency C++ Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Design Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Radar Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) LDAP
2 1 (4.35%) gRPC
2 1 (4.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Hedge funds
1 1 (4.35%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 21 (91.30%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) CentOS
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) Low Latency
2 19 (82.61%) Agile
3 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (4.35%) Component Testing
4 1 (4.35%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (4.35%) Digital Signal Processing
4 1 (4.35%) FPGA Design
4 1 (4.35%) High-Frequency Trading
4 1 (4.35%) Signal Processing
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) Java
2 19 (82.61%) C
2 19 (82.61%) C++
3 2 (8.70%) Perl
3 2 (8.70%) Python
4 1 (4.35%) Rust
4 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
1 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
1 1 (4.35%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Ansible
1 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Dell
1 2 (8.70%) HP
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle
1 2 (8.70%) Red Hat