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 3 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 540 638
Rank change year-on-year +5 +98 +139
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 155 107 223
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.26% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.65% 0.67% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 61 50 155
10th Percentile £51,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +10.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -

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 23,815 15,852 32,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.74% 38.75% 36.37%
Number of salaries quoted 12,196 8,889 22,415
10th Percentile £29,125 £32,000 £28,038
25th Percentile £38,984 £43,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 3 April 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 3 April 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
England -43 123 £65,000 +4.00% 153
UK excluding London -11 122 £65,000 +8.33% 164
Work from Home +24 77 £67,500 +35.00% 42
South East -35 29 £68,750 +10.00% 47
South West -25 24 £65,000 -5.45% 30
London -3 23 £150,000 +50.00% 18
East of England -29 20 £72,500 +45.00% 36
North of England -57 16 - - 14
Scotland -17 10 £67,500 +2.66% 15
Midlands -26 10 £65,000 +13.04% 15
Wales -16 9 £57,500 +4.55% 7
North West -25 8 - - 5
Yorkshire -51 8 - - 6
West Midlands - 6 £52,500 - 2
East Midlands -40 4 £65,000 +13.04% 13
Northern Ireland - 4 £65,000 - 8

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 (1.29%) Apache
1 2 (1.29%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Simulink
2 2 (1.29%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 8 (5.16%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1 (0.65%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 52 (33.55%) Ethernet
2 21 (13.55%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.23%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (2.58%) RS-232
5 3 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.94%) Wireless
6 2 (1.29%) Bluetooth
6 2 (1.29%) DHCP
6 2 (1.29%) DNS
6 2 (1.29%) LAN
6 2 (1.29%) NAS
6 2 (1.29%) RFID
6 2 (1.29%) SAN
6 2 (1.29%) SNMP
6 2 (1.29%) WAN
7 1 (0.65%) LTE
Development Applications
1 11 (7.10%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (6.45%) Git
3 3 (1.94%) JIRA
4 2 (1.29%) Eclipse
4 2 (1.29%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.65%) Subversion
General
1 47 (30.32%) Electronics
2 21 (13.55%) Finance
3 19 (12.26%) Banking
3 19 (12.26%) Investment Banking
4 10 (6.45%) Aerospace
5 8 (5.16%) Aviation
6 7 (4.52%) Social Skills
7 4 (2.58%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.29%) Automotive
9 2 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.65%) Legal
10 1 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (18.06%) FPGA Engineer
1 28 (18.06%) Lead
2 24 (15.48%) Senior
3 20 (12.90%) Developer
4 19 (12.26%) C++ Developer
4 19 (12.26%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
4 19 (12.26%) Linux Developer
4 19 (12.26%) Linux Scripter
4 19 (12.26%) Low Latency C++ Developer
5 13 (8.39%) Embedded Engineer
6 8 (5.16%) Firmware Engineer
6 8 (5.16%) Senior FPGA Engineer
7 7 (4.52%) DSP Engineer
8 6 (3.87%) Electronics Engineer
8 6 (3.87%) Hardware Engineer
9 5 (3.23%) Designer
9 5 (3.23%) Development Engineer
9 5 (3.23%) FPGA Design Engineer
9 5 (3.23%) FPGA Designer
9 5 (3.23%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.29%) LDAP
2 1 (0.65%) gRPC
2 1 (0.65%) Middleware
2 1 (0.65%) Node.js
2 1 (0.65%) NumPy
2 1 (0.65%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.65%) Qt
2 1 (0.65%) SciPy
2 1 (0.65%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 52 (33.55%) Embedded Systems
2 21 (13.55%) Algorithms
3 20 (12.90%) VHDL
4 14 (9.03%) PCIe
5 8 (5.16%) NVMe
6 4 (2.58%) ASIC
6 4 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.94%) Device Driver
7 3 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.29%) GNSS
8 2 (1.29%) Photography
8 2 (1.29%) Raspberry Pi
8 2 (1.29%) Verilog
9 1 (0.65%) Analogue Electronics
9 1 (0.65%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.65%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 72 (46.45%) Linux
2 2 (1.29%) CentOS
2 2 (1.29%) Embedded Linux
2 2 (1.29%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (17.42%) Agile
2 24 (15.48%) FPGA Design
3 20 (12.90%) Low Latency
4 15 (9.68%) Software Engineering
5 14 (9.03%) System Testing
6 13 (8.39%) Signal Processing
7 12 (7.74%) Schematic Capture
8 11 (7.10%) Validation
9 10 (6.45%) Configuration Management
9 10 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (5.81%) Roadmaps
10 9 (5.81%) Test Automation
11 8 (5.16%) Information Assurance
11 8 (5.16%) Kalman Filter
11 8 (5.16%) Requirements Analysis
11 8 (5.16%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (5.16%) Technology Roadmap
11 8 (5.16%) UVM
12 7 (4.52%) Digital Signal Processing
12 7 (4.52%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (30.32%) C
2 42 (27.10%) C++
3 23 (14.84%) Java
4 12 (7.74%) Python
5 8 (5.16%) Assembly Language
6 5 (3.23%) C#
6 5 (3.23%) MATLAB
7 3 (1.94%) Embedded C
8 2 (1.29%) Embedded C++
8 2 (1.29%) Perl
9 1 (0.65%) Rust
9 1 (0.65%) SQL
9 1 (0.65%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 16 (10.32%) Degree
2 13 (8.39%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.87%) PhD
4 5 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.94%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.65%) CEH
6 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.58%) IEC 61508
1 4 (2.58%) ISO 26262
2 3 (1.94%) MISRA
3 2 (1.29%) QA
4 1 (0.65%) DO-254
System Software
1 29 (18.71%) Firmware
2 17 (10.97%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.29%) Ansible
1 2 (1.29%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (1.29%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 12 (7.74%) Altera
2 10 (6.45%) Xilinx
3 5 (3.23%) EMC
4 3 (1.94%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.29%) Dell
5 2 (1.29%) HP
5 2 (1.29%) Oracle
5 2 (1.29%) Red Hat