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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 640 788
Rank change year-on-year +76 +148 +138
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 120 249 199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.67% 0.71% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 66 172 89
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% -4.55% -21.43%
75th Percentile £72,375 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £100,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -25.00%

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 18,032 35,027 45,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.57% 35.62% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 23,030 23,975
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,000 £35,271
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
England +44 94 £60,000 +14.29% 189
UK excluding London +78 77 £60,000 +20.00% 170
Work from Home +168 65 £50,000 -8.26% 91
South East +70 28 £62,500 +19.05% 81
London +90 25 £100,000 -18.37% 32
East of England +34 24 £50,000 - 51
South West +59 11 £60,000 +12.68% 16
Wales +43 5 £55,000 +22.22% 3
North of England +76 4 £43,750 -12.50% 8
North West +26 4 £43,750 -12.50% 5
Scotland +126 3 £67,500 +31.71% 10
Midlands +59 2 £66,250 +65.63% 8
West Midlands +51 1 £75,000 - 6
East Midlands +47 1 £57,500 +43.75% 2

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:

Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Simulink
2 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.67%) GNU Octave
3 2 (1.67%) OrCAD
Communications & Networking
1 25 (20.83%) TCP/IP
2 8 (6.67%) Ethernet
3 6 (5.00%) RS-485
3 6 (5.00%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (3.33%) 5G
4 4 (3.33%) DNS
4 4 (3.33%) HTTP
4 4 (3.33%) Internet
4 4 (3.33%) SD-WAN
4 4 (3.33%) SMTP
4 4 (3.33%) WAN
5 3 (2.50%) GSM
6 2 (1.67%) GPRS
7 1 (0.83%) LTE
7 1 (0.83%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.83%) RS-232
7 1 (0.83%) SDH
7 1 (0.83%) SONET
7 1 (0.83%) UMTS
7 1 (0.83%) Wideband
Development Applications
1 14 (11.67%) Git
2 13 (10.83%) Subversion
3 7 (5.83%) JIRA
4 1 (0.83%) Carbide.c++
4 1 (0.83%) PetaLinux
4 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (35.00%) Electronics
2 39 (32.50%) Social Skills
3 28 (23.33%) Finance
4 14 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.67%) Banking
4 14 (11.67%) Investment Banking
4 14 (11.67%) Manufacturing
4 14 (11.67%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (6.67%) Aerospace
6 7 (5.83%) Aviation
7 2 (1.67%) Marketing
7 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.83%) Advertising
8 1 (0.83%) Automotive
8 1 (0.83%) Front Office
8 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.83%) Law
8 1 (0.83%) Military
8 1 (0.83%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (33.33%) Senior
2 38 (31.67%) FPGA Engineer
3 22 (18.33%) C++ Developer
3 22 (18.33%) Developer
4 21 (17.50%) Low Latency C++ Developer
5 20 (16.67%) Electronics Engineer
5 20 (16.67%) Linux Developer
6 15 (12.50%) Senior Electronics Engineer
7 14 (11.67%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
7 14 (11.67%) Linux Scripter
8 12 (10.00%) Design Engineer
8 12 (10.00%) Firmware Engineer
8 12 (10.00%) Hardware Engineer
9 10 (8.33%) Senior FPGA Engineer
10 9 (7.50%) Embedded Engineer
10 9 (7.50%) VHDL Engineer
11 8 (6.67%) Senior VHDL Engineer
12 7 (5.83%) FPGA Design Engineer
12 7 (5.83%) FPGA Developer
12 7 (5.83%) Senior Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.00%) .NET
2 2 (1.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 2 (1.67%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.83%) OpenCV
3 1 (0.83%) OpenGL
3 1 (0.83%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 56 (46.67%) VHDL
2 38 (31.67%) Verilog
3 22 (18.33%) Algorithms
4 15 (12.50%) Analogue Electronics
5 13 (10.83%) GNSS
5 13 (10.83%) MicroBlaze
6 12 (10.00%) Life Science
7 10 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (6.67%) ASIC
8 8 (6.67%) CPLD
8 8 (6.67%) Satnav
9 6 (5.00%) e-Learning
10 4 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (3.33%) Self-Driving Car
10 4 (3.33%) Tandem
11 3 (2.50%) NVMe
12 2 (1.67%) Derivative
12 2 (1.67%) Device Driver
12 2 (1.67%) Equities
12 2 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 42 (35.00%) Linux
2 14 (11.67%) Windows
3 5 (4.17%) Unix
4 3 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.67%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.83%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (36.67%) FPGA Design
2 39 (32.50%) Signal Processing
3 37 (30.83%) Prototyping
4 26 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (19.17%) Low Latency
6 18 (15.00%) Agile
7 15 (12.50%) Digital Signal Processing
7 15 (12.50%) Innovative Thinking
7 15 (12.50%) Schematic Capture
8 14 (11.67%) Validation
9 13 (10.83%) CAD
10 12 (10.00%) B2B
10 12 (10.00%) Mathematics
11 11 (9.17%) Computer Science
11 11 (9.17%) Test Automation
12 10 (8.33%) Physics
12 10 (8.33%) Software Engineering
13 9 (7.50%) Architectural Design
14 8 (6.67%) Defect Tracking
14 8 (6.67%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 71 (59.17%) C
2 69 (57.50%) C++
3 20 (16.67%) Java
4 19 (15.83%) C#
5 18 (15.00%) Python
6 15 (12.50%) MATLAB
7 12 (10.00%) Tcl
8 8 (6.67%) Perl
8 8 (6.67%) VB
9 7 (5.83%) SystemVerilog
10 6 (5.00%) Embedded C
11 5 (4.17%) Embedded C++
12 3 (2.50%) Rust
13 1 (0.83%) Bash
13 1 (0.83%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (30.83%) Degree
2 22 (18.33%) Security Cleared
3 15 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.33%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.33%) PhD
5 3 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.67%) QA
2 1 (0.83%) DO-254
System Software
1 53 (44.17%) Firmware
2 20 (16.67%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 22 (18.33%) Xilinx
2 19 (15.83%) EMC
3 9 (7.50%) Altera
4 8 (6.67%) Green Hills
5 7 (5.83%) Microsoft
6 5 (4.17%) Intel
7 4 (3.33%) Agilent
8 3 (2.50%) Microsemi
8 3 (2.50%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.67%) YouTube
10 1 (0.83%) Freescale
10 1 (0.83%) SAP