FPGA Design Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 471 553 518
Rank change year-on-year +82 -35 +268
Permanent jobs citing FPGA Design 33 44 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.083% 0.10% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 27 7 36
10th Percentile £56,328 £56,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £58,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +35.92% -41.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £64,063
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +35.92% -37.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,488 36,200 27,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.80% 84.59% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 18,839 17,533 20,384
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,625 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

FPGA Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

FPGA Design job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

FPGA Design
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing FPGA Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing FPGA Design

FPGA Design
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing FPGA Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Salary histogram for FPGA Design in the UK excluding London

FPGA Design
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 Design within the UK excluding London 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
East of England +18 12 £77,500 +10.71% 16
Scotland +12 9 £67,500 -3.57% 2
South East +50 5 £57,660 -14.58% 12
North West +33 3 £75,000 - 3
North of England +21 3 £75,000 - 3
South West +20 2 £72,500 +20.83% 2
Midlands - 2 £77,500 - 2
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 £77,500 - 1
FPGA Design
UK

FPGA Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 9 (27.27%) Ethernet
1 9 (27.27%) RS-232
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) Redmine
3 1 (3.03%) Subversion
General
1 17 (51.52%) Electronics
2 4 (12.12%) Aerospace
3 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.03%) Finance
5 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (60.61%) FPGA Engineer
2 18 (54.55%) Senior
3 11 (33.33%) Electronics Engineer
3 11 (33.33%) Senior FPGA Engineer
4 10 (30.30%) Design Engineer
4 10 (30.30%) Senior Electronics Engineer
5 8 (24.24%) FPGA Design Engineer
6 7 (21.21%) Designer
7 6 (18.18%) Lead
8 4 (12.12%) FPGA Designer
8 4 (12.12%) Senior Designer
9 3 (9.09%) PCB Designer
10 2 (6.06%) Senior Design Engineer
10 2 (6.06%) Team Leader
11 1 (3.03%) Hardware Design Engineer
11 1 (3.03%) Hardware Engineer
11 1 (3.03%) Project Engineer
11 1 (3.03%) Project Leader
11 1 (3.03%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 1 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 33 (100.00%) FPGA
2 23 (69.70%) VHDL
3 9 (27.27%) Verilog
4 4 (12.12%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (6.06%) ASIC
6 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.03%) IoT
6 1 (3.03%) Robotics
6 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
1 10 (30.30%) Schematic Capture
2 5 (15.15%) Signal Processing
2 5 (15.15%) UVM
3 4 (12.12%) Requirements Management
3 4 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (9.09%) Software Testing
5 2 (6.06%) AI
5 2 (6.06%) Project Delivery
5 2 (6.06%) Validation
6 1 (3.03%) Architectural Design
6 1 (3.03%) CI/CD
6 1 (3.03%) Collaborative Engineering
6 1 (3.03%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (3.03%) Power Management
6 1 (3.03%) Scrum
6 1 (3.03%) Software Engineering
6 1 (3.03%) Supplier Management
6 1 (3.03%) Trade-off Analysis
6 1 (3.03%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) C
1 6 (18.18%) SystemVerilog
2 3 (9.09%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) C++
4 1 (3.03%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Degree
2 5 (15.15%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (12.12%) HND
4 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.03%) PhD
5 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.03%) ECSS
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Firmware
2 1 (3.03%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) EMC
2 8 (24.24%) Xilinx
3 5 (15.15%) Intel
3 5 (15.15%) Microsemi
4 3 (9.09%) Mentor Graphics