FPGA Design Job Trends in Manchester

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Design\Prototyping
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring FPGA Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 151 131
Rank change year-on-year +24 -20 -
Permanent jobs citing FPGA Design 3 11 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.12% 0.35% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.38% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile £72,500 - £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £51,500
75th Percentile £77,500 - £55,750
90th Percentile - - £57,450
North West median annual salary £75,000 - £51,500

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

FPGA Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,097 2,866 2,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.31% 89.96% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,226 1,381 1,698
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.60% +5.53%
75th Percentile £71,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,369 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.67% -6.60% +2.33%

FPGA Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

FPGA Design job vacancy trend in Manchester

FPGA Design
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing FPGA Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing FPGA Design

FPGA Design
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA Design within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 December 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
Bolton +17 3 £75,000 - 2
FPGA Design
North West

FPGA Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Simulink
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) FPGA Design Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (100.00%) FPGA
1 3 (100.00%) Verilog
1 3 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Intel
1 3 (100.00%) Microsemi
1 3 (100.00%) Xilinx