FPGA Jobs in the Thames Valley

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 159 219 252
Rank change year-on-year +60 +33 -3
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 12 21 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.40% 0.31% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.08% 0.93% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 11 18 7
10th Percentile - £43,375 £57,221
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £61,202
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £62,086
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -15.44% +18.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £61,250 £62,971
90th Percentile - £75,000 -
South East median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £62,086
% change year-on-year +19.05% -15.44% +12.88%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,113 2,252 2,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.84% 33.44% 42.20%
Number of salaries quoted 538 1,516 1,204
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,625 £61,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,750 £73,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.35% -10.91% -

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing FPGA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in the Thames Valley

FPGA
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FPGA in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for FPGA in the Thames Valley

FPGA
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Oxfordshire +45 7 £62,500 +10.62% 13
Buckinghamshire +49 4 £60,000 -20.00% 22
Berkshire +34 1 £65,000 +23.81% 7
FPGA
South East

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Ethernet
2 1 (8.33%) RS-485
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
1 4 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (58.33%) Electronics
2 6 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 4 (33.33%) Aerospace
3 4 (33.33%) Aviation
3 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Electronics Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior
3 4 (33.33%) Senior Electronics Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Design Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Design Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) FPGA/VHDL Design Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) VHDL Design Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) VHDL Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) OpenCV
1 1 (8.33%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Algorithms
1 7 (58.33%) VHDL
2 6 (50.00%) Verilog
3 5 (41.67%) ASIC
4 4 (33.33%) CPLD
5 1 (8.33%) CUDA
5 1 (8.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Signal Processing
2 5 (41.67%) Validation
3 4 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
3 4 (33.33%) OO
3 4 (33.33%) OOD
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 4 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 4 (33.33%) Schematic Capture
3 4 (33.33%) SDLC
3 4 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) Systems Thinking
3 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
4 2 (16.67%) Design for Manufacturing
5 1 (8.33%) Design for Test
5 1 (8.33%) Motion Capture
5 1 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) C++
2 9 (75.00%) C
3 4 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Agilent
2 1 (8.33%) Altera
2 1 (8.33%) EMC
2 1 (8.33%) Freescale
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) SAP