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 5 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 502 596
Rank change year-on-year -74 +94 +88
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 220 170 196
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.34% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.76% 0.84% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 136 91 132
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +23.81% -12.50%

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 28,775 20,293 25,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.90% 41.14% 32.19%
Number of salaries quoted 18,077 10,203 13,912
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -7.56% -4.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £46,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.13% -12.38% -4.55%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

FPGA job vacancy trend in the UK

FPGA
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FPGA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FPGA

FPGA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FPGA over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Salary histogram for FPGA in the UK

FPGA
Top 16 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 5 September 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
UK excluding London -29 207 £70,000 +7.69% 281
England -42 196 £70,000 +7.69% 309
South East +2 94 £75,000 +30.07% 87
Work from Home -46 66 £66,250 +6.00% 99
East of England -32 35 £75,000 +14.94% 95
Midlands -15 27 £65,000 -14.75% 18
East Midlands -12 22 £65,000 - 8
Scotland +11 20 £47,500 -29.63% 32
South West -67 18 £70,000 -8.20% 35
North of England -55 11 £57,500 -23.33% 16
London -60 11 - - 55
North West -8 6 £70,000 -6.67% 13
West Midlands -33 5 - - 10
Yorkshire - 5 £50,000 - 2
Wales -76 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £65,000 - 2

FPGA
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.36%) Artix
2 1 (0.45%) Kinematics
Applications
1 27 (12.27%) Simulink
2 4 (1.82%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (1.36%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.45%) Mathcad
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.45%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (4.09%) Towers Watson Igloo
2 1 (0.45%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.64%) Wireless
2 12 (5.45%) Ethernet
2 12 (5.45%) TCP/IP
3 11 (5.00%) Software-Defined Radio
4 10 (4.55%) 5G
5 9 (4.09%) 5G NR
6 3 (1.36%) MQTT
7 2 (0.91%) RS-485
8 1 (0.45%) LTE
8 1 (0.45%) RS-232
Development Applications
1 11 (5.00%) Git
2 9 (4.09%) Rational DOORS
3 7 (3.18%) Subversion
4 6 (2.73%) PetaLinux
5 5 (2.27%) JIRA
5 5 (2.27%) LabVIEW
General
1 69 (31.36%) Electronics
2 43 (19.55%) Aerospace
2 43 (19.55%) Finance
3 31 (14.09%) Social Skills
4 22 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (7.73%) Manufacturing
6 11 (5.00%) Banking
7 10 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.55%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.64%) Military
9 7 (3.18%) Retail
10 5 (2.27%) Games
11 1 (0.45%) Advertising
11 1 (0.45%) Aviation
11 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Law
11 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 104 (47.27%) FPGA Engineer
2 34 (15.45%) Senior
3 33 (15.00%) Embedded Engineer
4 28 (12.73%) Electronics Engineer
5 26 (11.82%) Design Engineer
6 24 (10.91%) Senior FPGA Engineer
7 23 (10.45%) FPGA Design Engineer
8 22 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
9 21 (9.55%) Systems Engineer
10 14 (6.36%) Developer
10 14 (6.36%) DSP Engineer
11 13 (5.91%) Lead
12 11 (5.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
12 11 (5.00%) Technical Specialist
13 10 (4.55%) C++ Developer
13 10 (4.55%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
13 10 (4.55%) Linux Developer
13 10 (4.55%) Linux Scripter
13 10 (4.55%) Low Latency C++ Developer
14 9 (4.09%) Technical Sales Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.64%) Yocto
2 3 (1.36%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.45%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 61 (27.73%) VHDL
2 41 (18.64%) Verilog
3 31 (14.09%) Embedded Systems
4 26 (11.82%) Algorithms
5 24 (10.91%) PCIe
6 12 (5.45%) ASIC
7 9 (4.09%) NVMe
7 9 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (3.18%) Analogue Electronics
9 6 (2.73%) IoT
9 6 (2.73%) Robotics
10 5 (2.27%) Device Driver
10 5 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.36%) 3D Printing
11 3 (1.36%) Arduino
11 3 (1.36%) MicroBlaze
11 3 (1.36%) Raspberry Pi
12 2 (0.91%) ARM Cortex
12 2 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.45%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 34 (15.45%) Linux
2 11 (5.00%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (1.36%) FreeRTOS
3 3 (1.36%) Robot Operating System
4 2 (0.91%) Windows
5 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (25.00%) FPGA Design
2 30 (13.64%) Signal Processing
3 26 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (11.36%) Validation
5 21 (9.55%) Agile
6 20 (9.09%) AI
6 20 (9.09%) Low Latency
6 20 (9.09%) Software Engineering
7 18 (8.18%) Configuration Management
7 18 (8.18%) UVM
8 17 (7.73%) Physics
9 16 (7.27%) Prototyping
9 16 (7.27%) Test Automation
10 15 (6.82%) Digital Signal Processing
11 14 (6.36%) Schematic Capture
12 13 (5.91%) Computer Science
12 13 (5.91%) Mathematics
13 12 (5.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (5.45%) Line Management
13 12 (5.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 67 (30.45%) C
2 53 (24.09%) C++
3 39 (17.73%) Python
4 26 (11.82%) MATLAB
5 16 (7.27%) Embedded C
6 14 (6.36%) SystemVerilog
7 12 (5.45%) Embedded C++
8 10 (4.55%) Java
9 9 (4.09%) Assembly Language
10 7 (3.18%) Perl
11 3 (1.36%) Bash
11 3 (1.36%) Rust
12 2 (0.91%) C#
13 1 (0.45%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 71 (32.27%) Degree
2 60 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 41 (18.64%) SC Cleared
4 36 (16.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 36 (16.36%) DV Cleared
5 18 (8.18%) Master's Degree
6 14 (6.36%) PhD
7 7 (3.18%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (1.82%) HNC
8 4 (1.82%) HND
9 3 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.45%) CEH
10 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.18%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.36%) DO-254
2 3 (1.36%) ECSS
3 2 (0.91%) DO-160
4 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.45%) QA
System Software
1 70 (31.82%) Firmware
2 26 (11.82%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.36%) Ansible
1 3 (1.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 47 (21.36%) Xilinx
2 17 (7.73%) Altera
3 9 (4.09%) Microsemi
4 8 (3.64%) Siemens
5 7 (3.18%) EMC
6 6 (2.73%) Intel
7 1 (0.45%) Lattice Semiconductor
7 1 (0.45%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft