FPGA Design Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West 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 177 210 180
Rank change year-on-year +33 -30 -
Permanent jobs citing FPGA Design 3 13 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.054% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.25% 0.26%
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
England median annual salary £75,000 £66,250 £51,500
% change year-on-year +13.21% +28.64% -39.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,779 5,163 3,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 86.19% 86.04% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,365 2,670 2,602
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,099 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,369 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -6.60% +2.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

FPGA Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

FPGA Design job vacancy trend in the North West

FPGA Design
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing FPGA Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing FPGA Design

FPGA Design
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA Design within the North West 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
Manchester +24 3 £75,000 - 2
FPGA Design
England

FPGA Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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