FPGA Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The median Field-Programmable Gate Array Engineer (FPGA Engineer) salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 735 755
Rank change year-on-year +213 +20 +59
Permanent jobs requiring an FPGA Engineer 31 17 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.083% 0.024% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.025% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 19 13 9
10th Percentile - £27,900 £58,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £48,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% -24.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £110,000
90th Percentile £72,600 £73,500 -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £56,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year +10.62% -23.65% -12.94%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 33,760 66,748 54,875
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.80% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 18,678 47,256 31,166
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,600 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

FPGA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured FPGA Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for FPGA Engineer in the UK excluding London

FPGA Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for FPGA Engineer in the UK excluding London

FPGA Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing FPGA Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for FPGA Engineer in the UK excluding London

FPGA Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
East of England +61 11 £45,000 - 29
South West +116 9 £68,750 +25.00% 7
South East +108 6 £62,500 +10.62% 30
Wales - 4 - - 2
Scotland +131 1 £67,500 +20.00% 2
FPGA Engineer
UK

FPGA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, FPGA Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring FPGA Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) FPGA
2 27 (87.10%) VHDL
3 25 (80.65%) FPGA Design
4 18 (58.06%) Firmware
5 17 (54.84%) Verilog
6 14 (45.16%) Signal Processing
7 13 (41.94%) C++
7 13 (41.94%) C
8 11 (35.48%) Innovative Thinking
9 10 (32.26%) Xilinx
9 10 (32.26%) Electronics
10 9 (29.03%) C#
10 9 (29.03%) Linux
10 9 (29.03%) Degree
10 9 (29.03%) Prototyping
10 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
10 9 (29.03%) Embedded Firmware
11 8 (25.81%) MicroBlaze
11 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (25.81%) Altera
11 8 (25.81%) Windows
12 7 (22.58%) Tcl
12 7 (22.58%) B2B
12 7 (22.58%) Perl
12 7 (22.58%) VB
12 7 (22.58%) Green Hills
12 7 (22.58%) MATLAB
12 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (22.58%) Computer Science
12 7 (22.58%) Requirements Analysis

FPGA Engineer Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) Ethernet
2 1 (3.23%) RS-232
2 1 (3.23%) RS-485
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) PetaLinux
General
1 10 (32.26%) Electronics
2 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (16.13%) Finance
5 1 (3.23%) Law
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.23%) Marketing
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 31 (100.00%) FPGA
2 27 (87.10%) VHDL
3 17 (54.84%) Verilog
4 8 (25.81%) MicroBlaze
5 7 (22.58%) GNSS
5 7 (22.58%) Satnav
6 6 (19.35%) Algorithms
7 5 (16.13%) ASIC
8 4 (12.90%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 9 (29.03%) Linux
2 8 (25.81%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (80.65%) FPGA Design
2 14 (45.16%) Signal Processing
3 11 (35.48%) Innovative Thinking
4 9 (29.03%) Prototyping
5 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (22.58%) B2B
6 7 (22.58%) Computer Science
6 7 (22.58%) Creative Thinking
6 7 (22.58%) Defect Tracking
6 7 (22.58%) Requirements Analysis
7 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
8 1 (3.23%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (3.23%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (3.23%) Design for Manufacturing
8 1 (3.23%) Digital Marketing
8 1 (3.23%) Digital Signal Processing
8 1 (3.23%) Programme Management
8 1 (3.23%) Schematic Capture
8 1 (3.23%) Software Testing
8 1 (3.23%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) C
1 13 (41.94%) C++
2 9 (29.03%) C#
3 7 (22.58%) MATLAB
3 7 (22.58%) Perl
3 7 (22.58%) Tcl
3 7 (22.58%) VB
4 1 (3.23%) Python
4 1 (3.23%) Rust
4 1 (3.23%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 18 (58.06%) Firmware
2 9 (29.03%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Xilinx
2 8 (25.81%) Altera
3 7 (22.58%) Green Hills
4 2 (6.45%) EMC
5 1 (3.23%) Freescale
5 1 (3.23%) SAP