FPGA Design Jobs

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Design\Prototyping
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring FPGA Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited FPGA Design over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 846 976
Rank change year-on-year +190 +130 +196
Permanent jobs citing FPGA Design 44 58 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.059% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.068% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 29 46 11
10th Percentile - £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -16.67% -31.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £78,000 £70,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year +12.00% -18.37% -30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

FPGA Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,113 84,749 99,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.34% 85.94% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,713 59,834 58,282
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,000 £72,500 £81,750
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

FPGA Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA Design in the UK

FPGA Design
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for FPGA Design in the UK

FPGA Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FPGA Design over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for FPGA Design in the UK

FPGA Design
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA Design within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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 +173 32 £56,000 +12.00% 65
England +151 27 £50,500 +1.00% 65
Work from Home +162 17 £45,000 -10.00% 26
East of England +59 16 £45,000 -10.00% 27
South West +90 9 £68,750 +35.47% 8
Wales - 4 - - 3
Scotland +132 2 £68,750 +30.95% 2
West Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 3
London - 1 £70,000 - 6
Midlands - 1 £75,000 - 4

FPGA Design
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 4 (9.09%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.27%) RS-232
2 1 (2.27%) SDH
2 1 (2.27%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (2.27%) SONET
2 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Git
1 4 (9.09%) Subversion
2 3 (6.82%) JIRA
3 1 (2.27%) PetaLinux
General
1 14 (31.82%) Electronics
2 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Finance
5 3 (6.82%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.27%) Advertising
6 1 (2.27%) Law
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.27%) Military
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (72.73%) FPGA Engineer
2 10 (22.73%) Senior
3 9 (20.45%) Design Engineer
3 9 (20.45%) Senior FPGA Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Senior VHDL Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) VHDL Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Electronics Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Designer
6 2 (4.55%) Electronics Design Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Field Applications Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Field Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) FPGA Designer
6 2 (4.55%) Lead
7 1 (2.27%) Embedded Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Engineering Manager
7 1 (2.27%) Junior
7 1 (2.27%) Senior Electronics Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 44 (100.00%) FPGA
2 34 (77.27%) VHDL
3 23 (52.27%) Verilog
4 8 (18.18%) MicroBlaze
5 7 (15.91%) GNSS
5 7 (15.91%) Satnav
6 5 (11.36%) Analogue Electronics
7 4 (9.09%) e-Learning
8 3 (6.82%) NVMe
9 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
9 1 (2.27%) ASIC
9 1 (2.27%) CPLD
9 1 (2.27%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (2.27%) VLSI
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.27%) Linux
2 8 (18.18%) Windows
3 3 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.27%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.09%) Prototyping
2 11 (25.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 11 (25.00%) Signal Processing
3 10 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (15.91%) B2B
4 7 (15.91%) Computer Science
4 7 (15.91%) Creative Thinking
4 7 (15.91%) Defect Tracking
4 7 (15.91%) Requirements Analysis
5 6 (13.64%) UVM
6 4 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (6.82%) Validation
8 2 (4.55%) Architectural Design
8 2 (4.55%) Configuration Management
8 2 (4.55%) Software Testing
9 1 (2.27%) Collaborative Working
9 1 (2.27%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 1 (2.27%) Schematic Capture
9 1 (2.27%) SysML
9 1 (2.27%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (29.55%) C
2 10 (22.73%) C++
2 10 (22.73%) Tcl
3 9 (20.45%) C#
4 8 (18.18%) MATLAB
5 7 (15.91%) Perl
5 7 (15.91%) SystemVerilog
5 7 (15.91%) VB
6 2 (4.55%) Embedded C
6 2 (4.55%) Embedded C++
7 1 (2.27%) Python
7 1 (2.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (31.82%) Degree
2 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
3 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) DO-254
System Software
1 25 (56.82%) Firmware
2 9 (20.45%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 17 (38.64%) Xilinx
2 7 (15.91%) Altera
2 7 (15.91%) Green Hills
3 5 (11.36%) Intel
4 3 (6.82%) EMC
4 3 (6.82%) Microsemi
4 3 (6.82%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.55%) YouTube