FPGA Design Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring FPGA Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 621 698 670
Rank change year-on-year +77 -28 +372
Permanent jobs citing FPGA Design 33 44 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.059% 0.071% 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.070% 0.082% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 27 7 36
10th Percentile £56,328 £56,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £58,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +35.92% -37.58%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £64,063
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +35.92% -41.14%

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 47,424 53,892 47,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.09% 86.75% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,060 28,022 36,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%

FPGA Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing FPGA Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

FPGA Design job vacancy trend in the UK

FPGA Design
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FPGA Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FPGA Design

FPGA Design
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FPGA Design over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Salary histogram for FPGA Design in the UK

FPGA Design
Top 12 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 12 December 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 +82 33 £67,500 -3.57% 33
England +83 24 £75,000 +13.21% 32
Work from Home +69 14 £67,500 +8.00% 15
East of England +18 12 £77,500 +10.71% 18
Scotland +12 9 £67,500 -3.57% 3
South East +50 5 £57,660 -14.58% 13
North West +33 3 £75,000 - 3
North of England +21 3 £75,000 - 3
South West +20 2 £72,500 +20.83% 2
Midlands - 2 £77,500 - 2
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 £77,500 - 1

FPGA Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (15.15%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 9 (27.27%) Ethernet
1 9 (27.27%) RS-232
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) Redmine
3 1 (3.03%) Subversion
General
1 17 (51.52%) Electronics
2 4 (12.12%) Aerospace
3 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.03%) Finance
5 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (60.61%) FPGA Engineer
2 18 (54.55%) Senior
3 11 (33.33%) Electronics Engineer
3 11 (33.33%) Senior FPGA Engineer
4 10 (30.30%) Design Engineer
4 10 (30.30%) Senior Electronics Engineer
5 8 (24.24%) FPGA Design Engineer
6 7 (21.21%) Designer
7 6 (18.18%) Lead
8 4 (12.12%) FPGA Designer
8 4 (12.12%) Senior Designer
9 3 (9.09%) PCB Designer
10 2 (6.06%) Senior Design Engineer
10 2 (6.06%) Team Leader
11 1 (3.03%) Digital Design Engineer
11 1 (3.03%) Hardware Engineer
11 1 (3.03%) Project Engineer
11 1 (3.03%) Project Leader
11 1 (3.03%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 1 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 33 (100.00%) FPGA
2 23 (69.70%) VHDL
3 9 (27.27%) Verilog
4 4 (12.12%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (6.06%) ASIC
6 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.03%) IoT
6 1 (3.03%) Robotics
6 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
1 10 (30.30%) Schematic Capture
2 5 (15.15%) Signal Processing
2 5 (15.15%) UVM
3 4 (12.12%) Requirements Management
3 4 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (9.09%) Software Testing
5 2 (6.06%) AI
5 2 (6.06%) Project Delivery
5 2 (6.06%) Validation
6 1 (3.03%) Agile
6 1 (3.03%) Business Development
6 1 (3.03%) Computer Science
6 1 (3.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (3.03%) Low Latency
6 1 (3.03%) Machine Learning
6 1 (3.03%) Physics
6 1 (3.03%) Product Management
6 1 (3.03%) Project Management
6 1 (3.03%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) C
1 6 (18.18%) SystemVerilog
2 3 (9.09%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) C++
4 1 (3.03%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Degree
2 5 (15.15%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (12.12%) HND
4 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.03%) PhD
5 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.03%) ECSS
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Firmware
2 1 (3.03%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) EMC
2 8 (24.24%) Xilinx
3 5 (15.15%) Intel
3 5 (15.15%) Microsemi
4 3 (9.09%) Mentor Graphics