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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 652 884
Rank change year-on-year +81 +232 -86
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 213 112 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.89% 0.50% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 114 90 94
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,246 £45,375
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +28.44%
75th Percentile £72,188 £85,000 £80,938
90th Percentile £97,000 £92,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,750 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% -14.29% +27.27%

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 23,890 22,599 64,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.58% 38.01% 45.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11,124 16,431 31,543
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,113 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,383 £45,638 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in the UK

FPGA
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for FPGA in the UK

FPGA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FPGA over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for FPGA in the UK

FPGA
Top 14 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 23 October 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
England +51 196 £55,000 -8.33% 238
UK excluding London +40 185 £54,750 -8.75% 231
Work from Home +81 75 £90,000 +5.88% 177
South East +4 65 £55,000 -8.33% 62
East of England -5 51 £55,000 - 114
East Midlands -9 24 £40,000 -20.00% 3
Midlands -14 24 £40,000 -20.00% 13
London +15 22 £110,000 +22.22% 18
South West 0 18 £65,000 -23.53% 24
North of England -25 16 £55,000 +5.97% 12
North West -18 14 - - 9
Scotland 0 10 £54,750 +15.26% 11
Yorkshire +28 2 £55,000 - 3
Wales - 1 - - 4

FPGA
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.94%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.76%) OrCAD
3 5 (2.35%) GNU Octave
3 5 (2.35%) Simulink
4 3 (1.41%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.47%) EPLAN
Cloud Services
1 13 (6.10%) Azure
2 9 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (1.41%) GitHub
4 2 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.47%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.86%) DNS
2 19 (8.92%) Ethernet
3 17 (7.98%) TCP/IP
4 16 (7.51%) Software-Defined Radio
5 15 (7.04%) WAN
6 12 (5.63%) DVB
7 10 (4.69%) 5G
7 10 (4.69%) DHCP
7 10 (4.69%) SD-WAN
8 8 (3.76%) HTTP
8 8 (3.76%) Internet
8 8 (3.76%) SMTP
9 6 (2.82%) RS-232
10 5 (2.35%) ICMP
10 5 (2.35%) LAN
11 4 (1.88%) NAS
11 4 (1.88%) OFDM
11 4 (1.88%) SAN
12 3 (1.41%) SNMP
13 2 (0.94%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.76%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (6.57%) Git
2 10 (4.69%) Subversion
3 6 (2.82%) JIRA
4 3 (1.41%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.94%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.47%) GitLab
6 1 (0.47%) LabVIEW
General
1 86 (40.38%) Electronics
2 37 (17.37%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.08%) Legal
3 30 (14.08%) Manufacturing
4 21 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (9.39%) Presentation Skills
6 17 (7.98%) Finance
7 10 (4.69%) Law
8 9 (4.23%) Banking
9 5 (2.35%) Aerospace
9 5 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.35%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.88%) Automotive
10 4 (1.88%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.41%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.94%) Front Office
12 2 (0.94%) Games
12 2 (0.94%) Marketing
12 2 (0.94%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 68 (31.92%) Embedded Engineer
2 44 (20.66%) FPGA Engineer
3 40 (18.78%) Design Engineer
4 39 (18.31%) Senior
5 36 (16.90%) Systems Engineer
6 32 (15.02%) Software Engineer
7 31 (14.55%) Electronics Engineer
8 25 (11.74%) Hardware Engineer
9 20 (9.39%) Developer
10 14 (6.57%) Electronics Design Engineer
10 14 (6.57%) Firmware Engineer
11 12 (5.63%) C# Developer
11 12 (5.63%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
12 10 (4.69%) Senior Firmware Engineer
12 10 (4.69%) Senior Hardware Engineer
13 9 (4.23%) Graduate
14 8 (3.76%) Digital Design Engineer
14 8 (3.76%) Linux Engineer
14 8 (3.76%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 8 (3.76%) Senior FPGA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.33%) .NET
2 4 (1.88%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.41%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (1.41%) Flash
3 3 (1.41%) LDAP
4 1 (0.47%) COM
4 1 (0.47%) CSS
4 1 (0.47%) HTML
4 1 (0.47%) Qt
4 1 (0.47%) STL
4 1 (0.47%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 111 (52.11%) VHDL
2 48 (22.54%) Verilog
3 44 (20.66%) Algorithms
3 44 (20.66%) Embedded Systems
4 30 (14.08%) ASIC
5 24 (11.27%) Analogue Electronics
6 23 (10.80%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (5.63%) CPLD
8 10 (4.69%) Data Centre
8 10 (4.69%) GNSS
8 10 (4.69%) MicroBlaze
9 9 (4.23%) Life Science
10 8 (3.76%) Tandem
11 7 (3.29%) Acoustics
11 7 (3.29%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (3.29%) CCTV
11 7 (3.29%) Enterprise Storage
12 6 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (2.35%) Equities
14 4 (1.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 88 (41.31%) Linux
2 44 (20.66%) Embedded Linux
3 34 (15.96%) Unix
4 24 (11.27%) Windows
5 9 (4.23%) Ubuntu
5 9 (4.23%) Windows Server
6 7 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (2.82%) Android
7 6 (2.82%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (1.88%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.88%) CentOS
8 4 (1.88%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.88%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.47%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (33.80%) Software Engineering
2 67 (31.46%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (25.82%) Signal Processing
4 43 (20.19%) Prototyping
5 42 (19.72%) FPGA Design
6 37 (17.37%) Mentoring
7 33 (15.49%) Validation
8 32 (15.02%) Open Source
9 31 (14.55%) Digital Signal Processing
10 29 (13.62%) OO
11 28 (13.15%) Project Delivery
12 24 (11.27%) Computer Science
13 23 (10.80%) DevOps
14 21 (9.86%) Schematic Capture
15 19 (8.92%) Mathematics
16 17 (7.98%) Agile
16 17 (7.98%) Software Testing
17 16 (7.51%) CAD
17 16 (7.51%) Continuous Integration
17 16 (7.51%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 130 (61.03%) C++
2 116 (54.46%) C
3 75 (35.21%) Python
4 33 (15.49%) SystemVerilog
5 31 (14.55%) MATLAB
5 31 (14.55%) Tcl
6 29 (13.62%) Java
7 28 (13.15%) Assembly Language
8 26 (12.21%) Shell Script
9 24 (11.27%) C#
10 18 (8.45%) Embedded C
11 14 (6.57%) Embedded C++
12 12 (5.63%) Go
13 8 (3.76%) SQL
14 7 (3.29%) Bash
14 7 (3.29%) Perl
15 6 (2.82%) Rust
16 2 (0.94%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.94%) VB
17 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 71 (33.33%) Degree
2 43 (20.19%) Security Cleared
3 32 (15.02%) SC Cleared
4 29 (13.62%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.69%) PhD
6 7 (3.29%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.35%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.94%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.62%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.29%) JTAG
3 3 (1.41%) DO-254
4 1 (0.47%) IEC 62304
4 1 (0.47%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 70 (32.86%) Firmware
2 22 (10.33%) Embedded Firmware
3 9 (4.23%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.94%) NFS
4 2 (0.94%) Samba
Systems Management
1 9 (4.23%) Ansible
1 9 (4.23%) ZABBIX
2 7 (3.29%) Grafana
2 7 (3.29%) WSUS
3 4 (1.88%) Nagios
3 4 (1.88%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 37 (17.37%) Xilinx
2 20 (9.39%) EMC
3 18 (8.45%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.23%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.29%) Altera
5 7 (3.29%) Commvault
5 7 (3.29%) F5
5 7 (3.29%) VMware
6 5 (2.35%) Intel
7 4 (1.88%) Oracle
7 4 (1.88%) Xamarin
8 3 (1.41%) Microsemi
9 2 (0.94%) Actel
9 2 (0.94%) Green Hills
9 2 (0.94%) Mentor Graphics
9 2 (0.94%) Motorola
9 2 (0.94%) SAP
10 1 (0.47%) Dell
10 1 (0.47%) HP
10 1 (0.47%) Siemens