FPGA Design Engineer
UK

The median FPGA Design Engineer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 887 1000 1196
Rank change year-on-year +113 +196 -322
Permanent jobs requiring an FPGA Design Engineer 4 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.003% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.003% 0.001%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £49,875 £53,375 -
25th Percentile £51,563 £56,563 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% -25.00% +70.00%
75th Percentile £66,563 £71,563 £90,000
90th Percentile £67,125 £75,125 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £63,750 £85,000
% change year-on-year -9.80% -25.00% +70.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 91,973 98,868 146,086
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.69% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 66,504 61,753 85,740
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,308 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.15% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

FPGA Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA Design Engineer in the UK

FPGA Design Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for FPGA Design Engineer in the UK

FPGA Design Engineer
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA Design Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
UK excluding London +23 4 £57,500 -9.80% 19
England +126 3 £57,500 -9.80% 18
South East +30 2 £58,750 -7.84% 4
Work from Home - 1 £55,000 - 6
South West - 1 £55,000 - 2
Scotland - 1 £57,500 - 1

FPGA Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, FPGA Design 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 featuring FPGA Design Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Electronics
1 4 (100.00%) FPGA
2 3 (75.00%) VHDL
2 3 (75.00%) Verilog
3 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (50.00%) Xilinx
3 2 (50.00%) Marketing
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) SAP
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Signal Processing
3 2 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (50.00%) FPGA Design
3 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (25.00%) PCIe
4 1 (25.00%) 5G NR
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) Acoustics
4 1 (25.00%) State Machine
4 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Radio

FPGA Design Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (25.00%) 4G
1 1 (25.00%) 5G
1 1 (25.00%) 5G NR
1 1 (25.00%) GSM
1 1 (25.00%) LTE
1 1 (25.00%) RS-485
1 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (25.00%) UMTS
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
1 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (100.00%) Electronics
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (50.00%) Marketing
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) FPGA
2 3 (75.00%) Verilog
2 3 (75.00%) VHDL
3 2 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (25.00%) Acoustics
4 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (25.00%) ASIC
4 1 (25.00%) CPLD
4 1 (25.00%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (25.00%) PCIe
4 1 (25.00%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (50.00%) FPGA Design
1 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 2 (50.00%) Signal Processing
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (25.00%) Schematic Capture
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (25.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
1 2 (50.00%) Xilinx
2 1 (25.00%) Intel