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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 576 604
Rank change year-on-year +32 +28 -100
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 207 189 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.31% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% 0.74% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 145 84 97
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £40,700
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,938 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -25.00% +35.27%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,188 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 -
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -25.00% +33.33%

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 23,852 25,466 30,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.05% 41.21% 43.40%
Number of salaries quoted 15,176 11,511 15,839
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £39,750
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 27 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 27 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 +57 70 £52,500 -15.44% 62
South West +48 67 £55,000 -18.52% 31
East of England +29 48 £50,000 -16.67% 64
North of England -2 12 £50,000 +17.65% 4
North West +12 11 £50,000 - 2
Scotland - 5 £51,250 - 12
Midlands -6 3 £46,250 -57.95% 20
Wales +2 2 £45,000 +21.62% 1
East Midlands -25 2 £46,250 -42.19% 11
Yorkshire +40 1 - - 2
West Midlands +23 1 - - 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 (0.48%) Kinematics
Applications
1 16 (7.73%) Simulink
2 12 (5.80%) OrCAD
3 8 (3.86%) GNU Octave
4 5 (2.42%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (1.93%) Windchill
6 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (2.42%) AWS
2 4 (1.93%) Azure
2 4 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.08%) Ethernet
2 13 (6.28%) Software-Defined Radio
2 13 (6.28%) Wireless
3 11 (5.31%) 5G
4 10 (4.83%) SD-WAN
4 10 (4.83%) WAN
5 8 (3.86%) OFDM
6 7 (3.38%) RS-232
6 7 (3.38%) RS-485
7 4 (1.93%) 4G
8 2 (0.97%) Internet
8 2 (0.97%) RS-422
9 1 (0.48%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.48%) DVB
9 1 (0.48%) GSM
9 1 (0.48%) LTE
9 1 (0.48%) Modbus
9 1 (0.48%) MQTT
9 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.48%) UMTS
Development Applications
1 17 (8.21%) Git
2 10 (4.83%) Subversion
3 7 (3.38%) LabVIEW
4 3 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.97%) PetaLinux
5 2 (0.97%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.48%) CMake
6 1 (0.48%) GCC
6 1 (0.48%) GDB
6 1 (0.48%) JIRA
6 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 95 (45.89%) Electronics
2 42 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (14.98%) Manufacturing
4 27 (13.04%) Social Skills
5 24 (11.59%) Aerospace
6 17 (8.21%) Automotive
6 17 (8.21%) Finance
7 15 (7.25%) Telecoms
8 13 (6.28%) Public Sector
9 12 (5.80%) Marketing
10 10 (4.83%) Military
11 5 (2.42%) Aviation
11 5 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 43 (20.77%) Electronics Engineer
2 42 (20.29%) Embedded Engineer
3 35 (16.91%) Lead
4 31 (14.98%) Hardware Engineer
4 31 (14.98%) Software Engineer
5 30 (14.49%) Design Engineer
5 30 (14.49%) Senior
6 27 (13.04%) Systems Engineer
7 23 (11.11%) Graduate
8 16 (7.73%) FPGA Engineer
8 16 (7.73%) Lead Systems Engineer
9 14 (6.76%) Developer
9 14 (6.76%) Digital Design Engineer
9 14 (6.76%) Junior
10 13 (6.28%) Electronics Design Engineer
10 13 (6.28%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 12 (5.80%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (5.31%) FPGA Developer
12 11 (5.31%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 9 (4.35%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.42%) Yocto
2 4 (1.93%) Flash
3 3 (1.45%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 2 (0.97%) POSIX
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Thrift
5 1 (0.48%) CSS
5 1 (0.48%) Flask
5 1 (0.48%) HTML
5 1 (0.48%) HTML5
5 1 (0.48%) LLVM
5 1 (0.48%) React
5 1 (0.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 82 (39.61%) VHDL
2 32 (15.46%) Algorithms
2 32 (15.46%) Verilog
3 27 (13.04%) Embedded Systems
4 23 (11.11%) Analogue Electronics
5 19 (9.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 18 (8.70%) PCIe
7 17 (8.21%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (6.76%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (3.86%) GNSS
10 7 (3.38%) MicroBlaze
11 4 (1.93%) CPLD
12 3 (1.45%) Device Driver
12 3 (1.45%) Fibre Optics
13 2 (0.97%) ASIC
13 2 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
13 2 (0.97%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.97%) IoT
13 2 (0.97%) Management Information System
14 1 (0.48%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 42 (20.29%) Linux
2 10 (4.83%) Windows
3 6 (2.90%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (2.42%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.97%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (27.05%) FPGA Design
2 53 (25.60%) Signal Processing
3 51 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (24.64%) Software Engineering
4 42 (20.29%) Computer Science
5 29 (14.01%) Physics
5 29 (14.01%) Schematic Capture
6 25 (12.08%) Mathematics
7 24 (11.59%) Customer Service
8 21 (10.14%) Validation
9 14 (6.76%) Mentoring
10 13 (6.28%) Customer Requirements
10 13 (6.28%) Memory Management
11 12 (5.80%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (5.80%) Digital Marketing
11 12 (5.80%) Kalman Filter
11 12 (5.80%) Programme Management
11 12 (5.80%) Test Automation
12 11 (5.31%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (4.83%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 98 (47.34%) C
2 70 (33.82%) C++
3 28 (13.53%) MATLAB
4 27 (13.04%) Python
5 16 (7.73%) Java
6 10 (4.83%) Bash
7 8 (3.86%) Tcl
8 7 (3.38%) Perl
8 7 (3.38%) VB
9 6 (2.90%) Embedded C
10 4 (1.93%) C#
10 4 (1.93%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.93%) SystemVerilog
11 2 (0.97%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.97%) Haskell
11 2 (0.97%) Rust
12 1 (0.48%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 119 (57.49%) Degree
2 42 (20.29%) Security Cleared
3 24 (11.59%) PhD
4 23 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 14 (6.76%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.86%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.93%) HND
9 3 (1.45%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.38%) JTAG
2 3 (1.45%) ECSS
2 3 (1.45%) PMO
3 1 (0.48%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (0.48%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 92 (44.44%) Firmware
2 28 (13.53%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.97%) Ansible
2 1 (0.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (14.49%) EMC
2 27 (13.04%) Xilinx
3 15 (7.25%) Intel
4 12 (5.80%) SAP
5 10 (4.83%) Altera
6 7 (3.38%) Green Hills
6 7 (3.38%) Motorola
7 4 (1.93%) Mentor Graphics
7 4 (1.93%) Microsemi
7 4 (1.93%) Siemens
8 2 (0.97%) Cadence
8 2 (0.97%) Keysight
8 2 (0.97%) Lattice Semiconductor
9 1 (0.48%) CA