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 £56,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 746 727 812
Rank change year-on-year -19 +85 -172
Permanent jobs requiring an FPGA Engineer 20 15 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.027% 0.026% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.029% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 16 10 1
10th Percentile £29,625 £50,121 -
25th Percentile £51,375 £62,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £74,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.65% -12.94% +70.00%
75th Percentile £69,375 £110,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £75,000 - -
UK median annual salary £56,500 £74,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -23.65% -12.94% +70.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 69,180 52,174 69,700
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 89.17% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 48,891 29,777 42,619
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 24 May 2024.

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 24 May 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 +26 8 £56,500 -9.96% 19
South West -16 7 £75,000 +11.11% 13
Scotland -59 3 £55,000 - 3
East of England +11 2 - - 20
FPGA Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 May 2024, 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 20 (100.00%) FPGA
2 9 (45.00%) VHDL
3 8 (40.00%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (35.00%) Verilog
4 7 (35.00%) Electronics
4 7 (35.00%) Python
4 7 (35.00%) FPGA Design
5 5 (25.00%) C
5 5 (25.00%) C++
5 5 (25.00%) MATLAB
5 5 (25.00%) Firmware
5 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) Finance
6 4 (20.00%) Simulink
6 4 (20.00%) Xilinx
6 4 (20.00%) Signal Processing
6 4 (20.00%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.00%) Marketing
7 3 (15.00%) Degree
7 3 (15.00%) Digital Marketing
7 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
7 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
7 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (15.00%) Intel
7 3 (15.00%) SAP
7 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
7 3 (15.00%) Agile
7 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
7 3 (15.00%) Programme Management

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:

Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Software-Defined Radio
2 2 (10.00%) Wireless
3 1 (5.00%) 3GPP
3 1 (5.00%) 4G
3 1 (5.00%) 5G
3 1 (5.00%) 5G NR
3 1 (5.00%) GSM
3 1 (5.00%) LTE
3 1 (5.00%) RS-485
3 1 (5.00%) UMTS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) Subversion
1 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (35.00%) Electronics
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.00%) Marketing
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 20 (100.00%) FPGA
2 9 (45.00%) VHDL
3 8 (40.00%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (35.00%) Verilog
5 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
5 2 (10.00%) Analogue Electronics
6 1 (5.00%) Acoustics
6 1 (5.00%) ASIC
6 1 (5.00%) CPLD
6 1 (5.00%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (5.00%) GNSS
6 1 (5.00%) PCIe
6 1 (5.00%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) FPGA Design
2 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) Signal Processing
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (15.00%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (15.00%) Programme Management
5 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (10.00%) Digital Signal Processing
5 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.00%) Workflow
6 1 (5.00%) Cost Reduction
6 1 (5.00%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (5.00%) DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) Embedded Software Development
6 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.00%) Prototyping
6 1 (5.00%) Schematic Capture
6 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) C
2 5 (25.00%) C++
2 5 (25.00%) MATLAB
3 2 (10.00%) Tcl
4 1 (5.00%) Embedded C
4 1 (5.00%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Firmware
2 1 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Xilinx
2 3 (15.00%) Intel
2 3 (15.00%) SAP
3 2 (10.00%) Altera