Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited FPGA over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 581 657 767
Rank change year-on-year +76 +110 +154
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 152 254 143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.24% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.70% 0.71% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 75 174 87
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £39,587 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £62,086
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -15.44% -11.31%
75th Percentile £72,875 £70,938 £85,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% -14.29%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 21,749 35,650 37,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.45% 33.48% 42.58%
Number of salaries quoted 10,360 22,694 21,992
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £55,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% -14.06% +2.40%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £99,967 £108,675
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing FPGA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in the UK

FPGA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FPGA.

Salary trend for FPGA in the UK

FPGA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FPGA over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Salary histogram for FPGA in the UK

FPGA
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the UK over the 6 months to 6 July 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
UK excluding London +72 104 £65,000 +30.00% 437
England +21 104 £65,000 +23.81% 574
Work from Home +119 69 £62,500 +2.04% 173
South East +47 45 £60,000 +14.29% 144
East of England +22 27 £67,750 -3.21% 138
London +86 20 £130,000 +30.00% 183
Scotland +93 10 £67,500 +107.69% 51
Wales +44 10 £50,000 +11.11% 11
South West +48 8 £76,250 +48.06% 51
Midlands +63 2 £75,000 +87.50% 24
North of England +44 2 £52,500 -1.41% 26
North West +10 2 £52,500 -1.41% 16
West Midlands +68 1 £75,000 - 15
East Midlands +35 1 - - 9

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (6.58%) Simulink
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.32%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 1 (0.66%) Amazon S3
1 1 (0.66%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (23.68%) Software-Defined Radio
2 22 (14.47%) TCP/IP
3 10 (6.58%) Ethernet
4 6 (3.95%) RS-232
5 4 (2.63%) 5G
5 4 (2.63%) DNS
5 4 (2.63%) HTTP
5 4 (2.63%) Internet
5 4 (2.63%) SD-WAN
5 4 (2.63%) SMTP
5 4 (2.63%) WAN
6 1 (0.66%) GSM
6 1 (0.66%) LTE
6 1 (0.66%) Multicast
6 1 (0.66%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.66%) RS-485
6 1 (0.66%) UMTS
6 1 (0.66%) Wideband
6 1 (0.66%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 16 (10.53%) Git
2 12 (7.89%) Subversion
3 8 (5.26%) JIRA
4 4 (2.63%) GitLab
5 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.66%) Carbide.c++
5 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.66%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.66%) PetaLinux
5 1 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (29.61%) Electronics
2 34 (22.37%) Finance
3 25 (16.45%) Social Skills
4 15 (9.87%) Banking
4 15 (9.87%) Investment Banking
4 15 (9.87%) Manufacturing
5 14 (9.21%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (8.55%) Aerospace
7 9 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.95%) Automotive
8 6 (3.95%) Aviation
9 5 (3.29%) Marketing
10 3 (1.97%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.97%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.32%) Advertising
12 1 (0.66%) Back Office
12 1 (0.66%) Front Office
12 1 (0.66%) Law
12 1 (0.66%) Military
12 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (30.26%) FPGA Engineer
2 33 (21.71%) Senior
3 32 (21.05%) Systems Engineer
4 30 (19.74%) Radio Engineer
5 26 (17.11%) Design Engineer
6 24 (15.79%) Electronics Engineer
7 21 (13.82%) FPGA Design Engineer
8 19 (12.50%) C++ Developer
8 19 (12.50%) Developer
9 18 (11.84%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 18 (11.84%) Senior Electronics Engineer
10 17 (11.18%) Linux Developer
11 15 (9.87%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
11 15 (9.87%) Linux Scripter
12 10 (6.58%) DSP Engineer
12 10 (6.58%) Firmware Engineer
13 8 (5.26%) Lead
14 6 (3.95%) Senior DSP Engineer
14 6 (3.95%) Senior FPGA Engineer
15 5 (3.29%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.97%) .NET
2 1 (0.66%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.66%) OpenCV
2 1 (0.66%) OpenGL
2 1 (0.66%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 50 (32.89%) VHDL
2 35 (23.03%) Verilog
3 14 (9.21%) Algorithms
4 12 (7.89%) e-Learning
4 12 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.95%) Analogue Electronics
5 6 (3.95%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (3.29%) CPLD
6 5 (3.29%) GNSS
7 4 (2.63%) MicroBlaze
7 4 (2.63%) Self-Driving Car
7 4 (2.63%) Tandem
8 3 (1.97%) Device Driver
8 3 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.97%) NVMe
9 2 (1.32%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.66%) CUDA
10 1 (0.66%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.66%) VLSI
Operating Systems
1 39 (25.66%) Linux
2 6 (3.95%) Windows
3 5 (3.29%) Unix
4 4 (2.63%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (37.50%) FPGA Design
2 49 (32.24%) Signal Processing
3 41 (26.97%) Digital Signal Processing
4 40 (26.32%) Innovative Thinking
5 33 (21.71%) Physics
6 23 (15.13%) Prototyping
7 21 (13.82%) Agile
8 20 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (12.50%) Low Latency
10 14 (9.21%) Software Engineering
11 13 (8.55%) Schematic Capture
11 13 (8.55%) Validation
12 12 (7.89%) Mathematics
13 10 (6.58%) Test Automation
14 9 (5.92%) Verification and Validation
15 8 (5.26%) Software Architecture
15 8 (5.26%) UVM
16 6 (3.95%) Project Delivery
16 6 (3.95%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (31.58%) C
2 47 (30.92%) C++
3 33 (21.71%) MATLAB
4 19 (12.50%) Python
5 15 (9.87%) Java
6 13 (8.55%) C#
7 9 (5.92%) SystemVerilog
8 6 (3.95%) Embedded C
8 6 (3.95%) Embedded C++
9 4 (2.63%) Tcl
10 3 (1.97%) Go
11 2 (1.32%) Bash
11 2 (1.32%) Rust
12 1 (0.66%) SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 53 (34.87%) SC Cleared
3 37 (24.34%) Degree
4 11 (7.24%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.29%) PhD
6 3 (1.97%) HND
6 3 (1.97%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.66%) DO-254
1 1 (0.66%) QA
1 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (48.03%) Firmware
2 40 (26.32%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.66%) Ansible
1 1 (0.66%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (11.18%) Xilinx
2 13 (8.55%) EMC
3 5 (3.29%) Intel
3 5 (3.29%) Microsemi
4 4 (2.63%) Agilent
5 3 (1.97%) Mentor Graphics
5 3 (1.97%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.97%) SAP
6 2 (1.32%) Cadence
6 2 (1.32%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.32%) YouTube
7 1 (0.66%) Altera
7 1 (0.66%) Freescale
7 1 (0.66%) New Relic
7 1 (0.66%) PagerDuty