FPGA Jobs in the UK excluding London

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited FPGA over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 565 616
Rank change year-on-year +17 +51 -116
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 199 201 241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.32% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% 0.77% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 139 82 101
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £41,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,313 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 -
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -25.00% +27.27%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

FPGA is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 23,717 25,981 30,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.19% 41.31% 43.34%
Number of salaries quoted 15,260 11,568 15,887
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £39,659
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing FPGA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in the UK excluding London

FPGA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FPGA in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for FPGA in the UK excluding London

FPGA
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing FPGA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for FPGA in the UK excluding London

FPGA
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
South East +48 66 £52,500 -15.44% 66
South West +33 64 £55,000 -18.52% 36
East of England +37 47 £50,000 -16.67% 66
North of England +2 12 £50,000 +17.65% 9
North West +9 11 £50,000 - 4
Scotland - 6 £47,500 - 10
Midlands -2 2 £52,500 -52.27% 18
Wales -5 2 £45,000 +21.62%
West Midlands +40 1 - - 9
Yorkshire +26 1 - - 5
East Midlands -25 1 £52,500 -34.38% 9
FPGA
UK

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.50%) Kinematics
Applications
1 15 (7.54%) Simulink
2 11 (5.53%) OrCAD
3 7 (3.52%) GNU Octave
4 5 (2.51%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (2.01%) Windchill
6 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (2.51%) AWS
2 4 (2.01%) Azure
2 4 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (12.06%) Ethernet
2 13 (6.53%) Software-Defined Radio
3 12 (6.03%) Wireless
4 10 (5.03%) 5G
5 9 (4.52%) SD-WAN
5 9 (4.52%) WAN
6 7 (3.52%) OFDM
6 7 (3.52%) RS-232
6 7 (3.52%) RS-485
7 3 (1.51%) 4G
8 2 (1.01%) Internet
8 2 (1.01%) RS-422
9 1 (0.50%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.50%) 5G NR
9 1 (0.50%) GSM
9 1 (0.50%) LTE
9 1 (0.50%) Modbus
9 1 (0.50%) MQTT
9 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.50%) UMTS
Development Applications
1 17 (8.54%) Git
2 10 (5.03%) Subversion
3 7 (3.52%) LabVIEW
4 3 (1.51%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.01%) PetaLinux
5 2 (1.01%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.50%) CMake
6 1 (0.50%) GCC
6 1 (0.50%) GDB
6 1 (0.50%) JIRA
6 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (45.73%) Electronics
2 38 (19.10%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (14.57%) Manufacturing
4 24 (12.06%) Aerospace
5 23 (11.56%) Social Skills
6 17 (8.54%) Automotive
6 17 (8.54%) Finance
7 14 (7.04%) Telecoms
8 13 (6.53%) Public Sector
9 12 (6.03%) Marketing
10 10 (5.03%) Military
11 5 (2.51%) Aviation
11 5 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.50%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 43 (21.61%) Electronics Engineer
2 40 (20.10%) Embedded Engineer
3 35 (17.59%) Lead
4 30 (15.08%) Software Engineer
5 29 (14.57%) Design Engineer
5 29 (14.57%) Hardware Engineer
6 28 (14.07%) Senior
7 27 (13.57%) Systems Engineer
8 22 (11.06%) Graduate
9 16 (8.04%) Lead Systems Engineer
10 15 (7.54%) FPGA Engineer
11 14 (7.04%) Digital Design Engineer
11 14 (7.04%) Electronics Design Engineer
11 14 (7.04%) Junior
12 13 (6.53%) Developer
12 13 (6.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 11 (5.53%) Principal Engineer
13 11 (5.53%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 10 (5.03%) FPGA Developer
15 8 (4.02%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.51%) Yocto
2 4 (2.01%) Flash
3 3 (1.51%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 2 (1.01%) POSIX
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Thrift
5 1 (0.50%) CSS
5 1 (0.50%) Flask
5 1 (0.50%) HTML
5 1 (0.50%) HTML5
5 1 (0.50%) LLVM
5 1 (0.50%) React
5 1 (0.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 76 (38.19%) VHDL
2 32 (16.08%) Verilog
3 30 (15.08%) Algorithms
4 27 (13.57%) Embedded Systems
5 22 (11.06%) Analogue Electronics
6 18 (9.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 17 (8.54%) PCIe
8 14 (7.04%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (6.53%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (3.52%) GNSS
11 6 (3.02%) MicroBlaze
12 4 (2.01%) CPLD
13 3 (1.51%) Device Driver
13 3 (1.51%) Fibre Optics
14 2 (1.01%) ASIC
14 2 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
14 2 (1.01%) Driving Licence
14 2 (1.01%) IoT
14 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
14 2 (1.01%) VLSI
Operating Systems
1 40 (20.10%) Linux
2 9 (4.52%) Windows
3 6 (3.02%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (2.01%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (1.01%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (27.64%) FPGA Design
2 49 (24.62%) Software Engineering
3 48 (24.12%) Signal Processing
4 47 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (20.10%) Computer Science
6 28 (14.07%) Physics
7 27 (13.57%) Schematic Capture
8 24 (12.06%) Customer Service
8 24 (12.06%) Mathematics
9 19 (9.55%) Validation
10 14 (7.04%) Mentoring
11 13 (6.53%) Customer Requirements
11 13 (6.53%) Memory Management
12 12 (6.03%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (6.03%) Digital Marketing
12 12 (6.03%) Programme Management
13 11 (5.53%) Kalman Filter
13 11 (5.53%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (5.53%) Test Automation
14 10 (5.03%) Garbage Collection
Programming Languages
1 92 (46.23%) C
2 65 (32.66%) C++
3 27 (13.57%) Python
4 26 (13.07%) MATLAB
5 15 (7.54%) Java
6 10 (5.03%) Bash
7 7 (3.52%) Tcl
8 6 (3.02%) Perl
8 6 (3.02%) VB
9 5 (2.51%) Embedded C
10 4 (2.01%) C#
10 4 (2.01%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.51%) SystemVerilog
12 2 (1.01%) Embedded C++
12 2 (1.01%) Haskell
12 2 (1.01%) Rust
13 1 (0.50%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 113 (56.78%) Degree
2 40 (20.10%) Security Cleared
3 22 (11.06%) PhD
3 22 (11.06%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.53%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.52%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.01%) HND
8 3 (1.51%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.52%) JTAG
2 3 (1.51%) ECSS
2 3 (1.51%) PMO
3 1 (0.50%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (0.50%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 89 (44.72%) Firmware
2 27 (13.57%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.01%) Ansible
2 1 (0.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (14.57%) EMC
2 25 (12.56%) Xilinx
3 14 (7.04%) Intel
4 12 (6.03%) SAP
5 9 (4.52%) Altera
6 6 (3.02%) Green Hills
6 6 (3.02%) Motorola
7 4 (2.01%) Mentor Graphics
7 4 (2.01%) Siemens
8 3 (1.51%) Microsemi
9 2 (1.01%) Cadence
9 2 (1.01%) Keysight
9 2 (1.01%) Lattice Semiconductor
10 1 (0.50%) CA