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 21 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 556 616
Rank change year-on-year +41 +60 +197
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 151 198 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.29% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.78% 0.89% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 67 93 81
10th Percentile £48,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,635 £46,250 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £101,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.45% -8.33% -11.11%

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 19,357 22,231 20,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.28% 32.98% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,736 10,765 14,982
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,143 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,625 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 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 +19 114 £66,250 +20.45% 147
England +36 105 £69,000 +14.05% 157
Work from Home +94 79 £67,500 -25.00% 69
South East +19 32 £54,885 -10.02% 63
London +57 22 £125,000 +4.17% 30
East of England -5 20 £71,500 +30.00% 49
Wales +28 16 £57,500 - 4
North of England +38 15 £75,000 +36.36% 6
Scotland +16 14 £67,500 +22.73% 15
South West +29 10 £75,000 -16.67% 16
North West +37 9 £75,000 - 1
Yorkshire +16 6 - - 2
Midlands +46 5 £77,500 +93.75% 5
West Midlands - 4 £77,500 - 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East Midlands +12 1 - - 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 1 (0.66%) Apache
1 1 (0.66%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (3.31%) Simulink
2 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (1.32%) AWS
2 1 (0.66%) Amazon S3
2 1 (0.66%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 39 (25.83%) Ethernet
2 20 (13.25%) Software-Defined Radio
2 20 (13.25%) TCP/IP
3 9 (5.96%) RS-232
4 2 (1.32%) Wireless
5 1 (0.66%) 4G
5 1 (0.66%) 5G
5 1 (0.66%) DHCP
5 1 (0.66%) DNS
5 1 (0.66%) Internet
5 1 (0.66%) LAN
5 1 (0.66%) Multicast
5 1 (0.66%) NAS
5 1 (0.66%) SAN
5 1 (0.66%) SNMP
5 1 (0.66%) WAN
Development Applications
1 16 (10.60%) Git
2 6 (3.97%) JIRA
2 6 (3.97%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (2.65%) GitLab
4 2 (1.32%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.66%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.66%) Redmine
5 1 (0.66%) Subversion
General
1 52 (34.44%) Electronics
2 29 (19.21%) Finance
3 19 (12.58%) Banking
3 19 (12.58%) Investment Banking
4 17 (11.26%) Aerospace
5 14 (9.27%) Social Skills
6 12 (7.95%) Automotive
6 12 (7.95%) Aviation
7 11 (7.28%) Manufacturing
8 9 (5.96%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (4.64%) Telecoms
10 5 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (3.31%) Marketing
11 4 (2.65%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.66%) Back Office
13 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (21.85%) Senior
2 26 (17.22%) FPGA Engineer
3 24 (15.89%) Electronics Engineer
4 19 (12.58%) C++ Developer
4 19 (12.58%) Developer
4 19 (12.58%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
4 19 (12.58%) Linux Developer
4 19 (12.58%) Linux Scripter
4 19 (12.58%) Low Latency C++ Developer
4 19 (12.58%) Senior Electronics Engineer
4 19 (12.58%) Systems Engineer
5 17 (11.26%) Radio Engineer
6 14 (9.27%) Design Engineer
7 12 (7.95%) Firmware Engineer
7 12 (7.95%) FPGA Design Engineer
7 12 (7.95%) Senior FPGA Engineer
8 10 (6.62%) Lead
9 7 (4.64%) Designer
10 5 (3.31%) DSP Engineer
11 4 (2.65%) Process Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.66%) .NET
1 1 (0.66%) DPDK
1 1 (0.66%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (0.66%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (27.81%) Embedded Systems
2 31 (20.53%) VHDL
3 16 (10.60%) Verilog
4 8 (5.30%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.65%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.99%) ASIC
8 2 (1.32%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.32%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.32%) IoT
9 1 (0.66%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.66%) Device Driver
9 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.66%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.66%) PCIe
9 1 (0.66%) Robotics
9 1 (0.66%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 62 (41.06%) Linux
2 2 (1.32%) Windows
3 1 (0.66%) CentOS
3 1 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (25.17%) FPGA Design
2 32 (21.19%) Agile
3 28 (18.54%) Signal Processing
4 22 (14.57%) Low Latency
5 20 (13.25%) Digital Signal Processing
6 18 (11.92%) Innovative Thinking
7 17 (11.26%) Physics
8 14 (9.27%) CI/CD
8 14 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (9.27%) Software Engineering
9 13 (8.61%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (7.95%) System Testing
10 12 (7.95%) Test Automation
10 12 (7.95%) Validation
11 11 (7.28%) Verification and Validation
12 10 (6.62%) Schematic Capture
13 8 (5.30%) Technical Leadership
14 5 (3.31%) UVM
15 4 (2.65%) Analytical Thinking
15 4 (2.65%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 44 (29.14%) C
2 36 (23.84%) C++
3 23 (15.23%) Java
4 16 (10.60%) MATLAB
5 11 (7.28%) Python
6 7 (4.64%) SystemVerilog
7 2 (1.32%) Perl
8 1 (0.66%) Bash
8 1 (0.66%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.66%) Go
8 1 (0.66%) Rust
8 1 (0.66%) SQL
8 1 (0.66%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 39 (25.83%) Security Cleared
2 27 (17.88%) Degree
3 22 (14.57%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.62%) DV Cleared
5 9 (5.96%) HND
6 5 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.32%) HNC
8 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.96%) QA
2 4 (2.65%) IEC 61508
2 4 (2.65%) ISO 26262
3 3 (1.99%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.32%) MISRA
5 1 (0.66%) ECSS
5 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (30.46%) Firmware
2 31 (20.53%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.32%) Ansible
2 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 1 (0.66%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (7.95%) EMC
2 9 (5.96%) Xilinx
3 5 (3.31%) Intel
3 5 (3.31%) Microsemi
4 4 (2.65%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.65%) SAP
5 3 (1.99%) Mentor Graphics
6 1 (0.66%) Cadence
6 1 (0.66%) Dell
6 1 (0.66%) HP
6 1 (0.66%) New Relic
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle
6 1 (0.66%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.66%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.66%) Solarflare