FPGA Job Trends

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 7 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 525 621
Rank change year-on-year +5 +96 +150
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 135 178 181
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.35% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.64% 0.94% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 57 65 131
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% +10.00% -4.76%

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 21,236 19,012 26,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.63% 37.50% 36.05%
Number of salaries quoted 10,701 8,807 19,748
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,000 £29,375
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +8.85% -13.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -9.09%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -16 102 £65,000 +18.18% 138
England -22 102 £65,000 +16.07% 151
Work from Home +40 75 £67,500 +20.00% 61
London +48 23 £135,000 +8.00% 21
East of England -1 22 £80,000 +52.38% 30
South West +5 18 £65,000 -27.78% 24
North of England -12 16 - - 6
South East -35 16 £60,000 -4.00% 59
Wales +17 12 £57,500 +4.55%
Scotland -5 9 £67,500 +12.50% 9
North West +16 8 - - 1
Yorkshire -18 8 - - 4
Midlands +11 6 £77,500 +55.00% 20
West Midlands - 5 £77,500 - 5
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
East Midlands -15 1 - - 15

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 2 (1.48%) Apache
1 2 (1.48%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1 (0.74%) AWS
1 1 (0.74%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 50 (37.04%) Ethernet
2 20 (14.81%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.96%) RS-232
4 3 (2.22%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (1.48%) DHCP
5 2 (1.48%) DNS
5 2 (1.48%) LAN
5 2 (1.48%) NAS
5 2 (1.48%) SAN
5 2 (1.48%) SNMP
5 2 (1.48%) WAN
6 1 (0.74%) 4G
6 1 (0.74%) 5G
6 1 (0.74%) Internet
6 1 (0.74%) LTE
6 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.74%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 12 (8.89%) Git
2 9 (6.67%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (2.96%) JIRA
4 2 (1.48%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.74%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 45 (33.33%) Electronics
2 22 (16.30%) Finance
3 18 (13.33%) Banking
3 18 (13.33%) Investment Banking
4 11 (8.15%) Aerospace
5 10 (7.41%) Aviation
6 9 (6.67%) Social Skills
7 5 (3.70%) Automotive
8 3 (2.22%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.48%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Legal
10 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.74%) Military
10 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (18.52%) Lead
2 21 (15.56%) Senior
3 19 (14.07%) Developer
4 18 (13.33%) C++ Developer
4 18 (13.33%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
4 18 (13.33%) Linux Developer
4 18 (13.33%) Linux Scripter
4 18 (13.33%) Low Latency C++ Developer
5 16 (11.85%) FPGA Engineer
6 9 (6.67%) Firmware Engineer
7 7 (5.19%) Electronics Engineer
7 7 (5.19%) Senior FPGA Engineer
8 6 (4.44%) Senior Electronics Engineer
9 5 (3.70%) Design Engineer
9 5 (3.70%) Designer
9 5 (3.70%) FPGA Designer
9 5 (3.70%) Senior Designer
10 4 (2.96%) Development Engineer
10 4 (2.96%) Embedded Engineer
11 3 (2.22%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.48%) LDAP
2 1 (0.74%) DPDK
2 1 (0.74%) gRPC
2 1 (0.74%) Middleware
2 1 (0.74%) Node.js
2 1 (0.74%) NumPy
2 1 (0.74%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.74%) Qt
2 1 (0.74%) SciPy
2 1 (0.74%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 50 (37.04%) Embedded Systems
2 15 (11.11%) VHDL
3 12 (8.89%) Algorithms
4 8 (5.93%) PCIe
5 5 (3.70%) ASIC
6 4 (2.96%) NVMe
6 4 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.96%) Verilog
7 2 (1.48%) GNSS
7 2 (1.48%) IoT
8 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.74%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.74%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.74%) Robotics
8 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.74%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 67 (49.63%) Linux
2 2 (1.48%) CentOS
2 2 (1.48%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (21.48%) Agile
2 22 (16.30%) FPGA Design
3 21 (15.56%) Low Latency
4 13 (9.63%) System Testing
5 11 (8.15%) CI/CD
5 11 (8.15%) Validation
6 10 (7.41%) Signal Processing
6 10 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (6.67%) Test Automation
7 9 (6.67%) Verification and Validation
8 8 (5.93%) Schematic Capture
9 7 (5.19%) Software Engineering
10 6 (4.44%) Configuration Management
11 5 (3.70%) Embedded Software Development
11 5 (3.70%) Roadmaps
12 4 (2.96%) Kalman Filter
12 4 (2.96%) OO
12 4 (2.96%) Technology Roadmap
12 4 (2.96%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 40 (29.63%) C
2 37 (27.41%) C++
3 23 (17.04%) Java
4 11 (8.15%) Python
5 4 (2.96%) Assembly Language
5 4 (2.96%) MATLAB
6 3 (2.22%) C#
6 3 (2.22%) Perl
7 2 (1.48%) Rust
7 2 (1.48%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.74%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.74%) SQL
8 1 (0.74%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 12 (8.89%) Degree
2 6 (4.44%) PhD
3 5 (3.70%) Master's Degree
3 5 (3.70%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.48%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.74%) HNC
5 1 (0.74%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.70%) QA
2 4 (2.96%) IEC 61508
2 4 (2.96%) ISO 26262
3 3 (2.22%) MISRA
System Software
1 22 (16.30%) Firmware
2 13 (9.63%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.48%) Ansible
1 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (1.48%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 7 (5.19%) Altera
2 6 (4.44%) EMC
3 5 (3.70%) Xilinx
4 3 (2.22%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.48%) Dell
5 2 (1.48%) HP
5 2 (1.48%) Oracle
5 2 (1.48%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.74%) Solarflare