FPGA Job Trends 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 in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited FPGA over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 412 454
Rank change year-on-year +6 +42 +101
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 100 160 113
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.45% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.74% 1.30% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 48 67 93
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £59,688 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +6.80% -10.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £67,900
UK median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -8.33%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

FPGA falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,592 12,280 11,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.21% 34.23% 34.52%
Number of salaries quoted 6,281 5,272 8,510
10th Percentile £26,375 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,744
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.28% -4.10%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

FPGA job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

FPGA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

FPGA
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing FPGA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

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 13 January 2026. 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
North of England +29 19 £75,000 +100.00% 14
East of England -8 19 £80,000 +45.45% 45
South West +11 15 £65,000 -27.78% 30
South East -25 15 £60,000 -4.00% 64
Wales +14 13 £57,500 +4.55% 6
North West +23 11 £75,000 +100.00% 4
Scotland +7 10 £67,500 +3.85% 6
Yorkshire -1 8 - - 8
Midlands +25 6 £77,500 +55.00% 22
West Midlands - 5 £77,500 - 4
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 8
East Midlands -14 1 - - 18
FPGA
UK

FPGA
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 3 (3.00%) Simulink
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Towers Watson Igloo
Communications & Networking
1 42 (42.00%) Ethernet
2 5 (5.00%) RS-232
2 5 (5.00%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (2.00%) Wireless
4 1 (1.00%) 4G
4 1 (1.00%) 5G
4 1 (1.00%) Internet
4 1 (1.00%) LTE
4 1 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 11 (11.00%) Git
2 5 (5.00%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (4.00%) JIRA
4 1 (1.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.00%) Redmine
4 1 (1.00%) Subversion
General
1 37 (37.00%) Electronics
2 13 (13.00%) Aerospace
3 10 (10.00%) Aviation
4 6 (6.00%) Automotive
5 4 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.00%) Social Skills
7 2 (2.00%) Finance
7 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Marketing
8 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (19.00%) Lead
2 18 (18.00%) Senior
3 14 (14.00%) FPGA Engineer
4 10 (10.00%) Firmware Engineer
5 8 (8.00%) Electronics Engineer
5 8 (8.00%) Senior FPGA Engineer
6 7 (7.00%) Designer
7 6 (6.00%) Design Engineer
7 6 (6.00%) FPGA Designer
7 6 (6.00%) Senior Designer
7 6 (6.00%) Senior Electronics Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) FPGA Design Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Radio Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Embedded Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
10 2 (2.00%) RF Engineer
10 2 (2.00%) Senior Design Engineer
10 2 (2.00%) Team Leader
10 2 (2.00%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.00%) NumPy
1 1 (1.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (1.00%) SciPy
1 1 (1.00%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (46.00%) Embedded Systems
2 16 (16.00%) VHDL
3 8 (8.00%) Verilog
4 5 (5.00%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.00%) ASIC
7 2 (2.00%) IoT
7 2 (2.00%) PCIe
8 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.00%) NVMe
8 1 (1.00%) Robotics
8 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.00%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 39 (39.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (25.00%) FPGA Design
2 11 (11.00%) System Testing
3 10 (10.00%) Agile
3 10 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (10.00%) Signal Processing
3 10 (10.00%) Test Automation
4 9 (9.00%) Validation
5 8 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (8.00%) Verification and Validation
6 6 (6.00%) Schematic Capture
7 5 (5.00%) Digital Signal Processing
7 5 (5.00%) Physics
7 5 (5.00%) Software Engineering
8 4 (4.00%) Innovative Thinking
8 4 (4.00%) OO
8 4 (4.00%) Requirements Management
8 4 (4.00%) UVM
9 3 (3.00%) AI
9 3 (3.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.00%) C
2 10 (10.00%) C++
3 5 (5.00%) SystemVerilog
4 4 (4.00%) MATLAB
4 4 (4.00%) Python
5 1 (1.00%) Assembly Language
5 1 (1.00%) Java
5 1 (1.00%) Perl
5 1 (1.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 8 (8.00%) Degree
2 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 5 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.00%) HND
4 2 (2.00%) HNC
4 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.00%) QA
2 4 (4.00%) IEC 61508
2 4 (4.00%) ISO 26262
3 1 (1.00%) ECSS
3 1 (1.00%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.00%) MISRA
System Software
1 16 (16.00%) Firmware
2 15 (15.00%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 7 (7.00%) EMC
2 6 (6.00%) Xilinx
3 3 (3.00%) Intel
3 3 (3.00%) Microsemi
4 2 (2.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.00%) Altera
5 1 (1.00%) SAP