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 have cited FPGA over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 635 812 942
Rank change year-on-year +177 +130 -224
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 261 183 298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.74% 0.42% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 182 87 117
10th Percentile £33,000 £35,700 £34,990
25th Percentile £42,813 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -14.29% +37.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,000 £85,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% -17.86% +40.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

FPGA is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,055 43,406 74,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.34% 42.74% 47.58%
Number of salaries quoted 23,055 23,484 33,996
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for FPGA in the UK

FPGA
Top 15 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 8 May 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 +164 254 £52,500 -12.50% 181
UK excluding London +36 219 £50,000 -13.04% 167
Work from Home +70 80 £55,000 +29.41% 79
South West +35 74 £51,500 -23.70% 33
South East +44 72 £52,500 -15.44% 60
East of England +34 48 £50,000 -18.37% 50
London +161 42 £122,500 +104.17% 20
North of England -9 11 £50,000 +17.65% 5
North West +5 10 £50,000 - 3
Midlands -3 7 £43,750 -60.23% 21
East Midlands -17 6 £43,750 -45.31% 12
Scotland - 5 £55,000 - 10
Wales 0 2 £45,000 +21.62% 1
Yorkshire +31 1 - - 2
West Midlands +9 1 - - 9

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 1 (0.38%) Apache
1 1 (0.38%) Kinematics
1 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (6.13%) Simulink
2 14 (5.36%) OrCAD
3 10 (3.83%) GNU Octave
4 5 (1.92%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (1.53%) Windchill
6 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (4.98%) AWS
2 12 (4.60%) Azure
3 4 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.96%) Ethernet
2 19 (7.28%) TCP/IP
3 14 (5.36%) Wireless
4 13 (4.98%) Software-Defined Radio
4 13 (4.98%) WAN
5 12 (4.60%) 5G
6 11 (4.21%) SD-WAN
7 10 (3.83%) OFDM
8 7 (2.68%) RS-232
8 7 (2.68%) RS-485
9 5 (1.92%) 4G
10 3 (1.15%) DNS
10 3 (1.15%) DVB
10 3 (1.15%) NAS
10 3 (1.15%) SAN
11 2 (0.77%) Internet
11 2 (0.77%) LAN
11 2 (0.77%) RS-422
11 2 (0.77%) SNMP
12 1 (0.38%) 5G NR
Development Applications
1 17 (6.51%) Git
2 13 (4.98%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.83%) Subversion
4 8 (3.07%) GitLab
5 7 (2.68%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.77%) JUnit
6 2 (0.77%) PetaLinux
6 2 (0.77%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.38%) CMake
7 1 (0.38%) GCC
7 1 (0.38%) GDB
7 1 (0.38%) JIRA
7 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 101 (38.70%) Electronics
2 47 (18.01%) Finance
3 46 (17.62%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (16.09%) Social Skills
5 35 (13.41%) Manufacturing
6 24 (9.20%) Aerospace
7 17 (6.51%) Automotive
8 16 (6.13%) Telecoms
9 13 (4.98%) Public Sector
10 12 (4.60%) Marketing
11 10 (3.83%) Military
12 8 (3.07%) Front Office
13 5 (1.92%) Aviation
13 5 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.15%) Law
16 2 (0.77%) Banking
16 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
17 1 (0.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (18.77%) Embedded Engineer
2 45 (17.24%) Electronics Engineer
2 45 (17.24%) Senior
3 40 (15.33%) Developer
4 37 (14.18%) Lead
5 36 (13.79%) Design Engineer
6 34 (13.03%) Hardware Engineer
6 34 (13.03%) Software Engineer
7 27 (10.34%) Systems Engineer
8 23 (8.81%) C++ Developer
8 23 (8.81%) Graduate
9 18 (6.90%) FPGA Developer
9 18 (6.90%) FPGA Engineer
9 18 (6.90%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 16 (6.13%) Lead Systems Engineer
11 15 (5.75%) Digital Design Engineer
11 15 (5.75%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 15 (5.75%) Junior
12 13 (4.98%) Electronics Design Engineer
12 13 (4.98%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.30%) Yocto
2 4 (1.53%) Flash
3 3 (1.15%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 2 (0.77%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (0.77%) LDAP
4 2 (0.77%) OpenMP
4 2 (0.77%) POSIX
4 2 (0.77%) STL
5 1 (0.38%) .NET
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Thrift
5 1 (0.38%) COM
5 1 (0.38%) CSS
5 1 (0.38%) Flask
5 1 (0.38%) HTML
5 1 (0.38%) HTML5
5 1 (0.38%) LLVM
5 1 (0.38%) Qt
5 1 (0.38%) React
5 1 (0.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 91 (34.87%) VHDL
2 35 (13.41%) Algorithms
3 34 (13.03%) Verilog
4 28 (10.73%) Embedded Systems
5 21 (8.05%) Analogue Electronics
6 20 (7.66%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (7.28%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (7.28%) PCIe
8 13 (4.98%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (4.60%) Equities
10 9 (3.45%) GNSS
11 8 (3.07%) MicroBlaze
12 6 (2.30%) CPLD
13 4 (1.53%) ASIC
13 4 (1.53%) Device Driver
13 4 (1.53%) Hedge funds
14 3 (1.15%) Fibre Optics
15 2 (0.77%) CCTV
15 2 (0.77%) IoT
15 2 (0.77%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 74 (28.35%) Linux
2 12 (4.60%) Windows
3 8 (3.07%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (2.68%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (1.15%) Android
5 3 (1.15%) CentOS
5 3 (1.15%) Oracle Linux
5 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (22.99%) Software Engineering
2 58 (22.22%) FPGA Design
3 56 (21.46%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (21.07%) Signal Processing
5 52 (19.92%) Computer Science
6 31 (11.88%) Low Latency
7 29 (11.11%) Schematic Capture
8 27 (10.34%) Physics
9 24 (9.20%) Customer Service
10 23 (8.81%) Mathematics
10 23 (8.81%) Validation
11 14 (5.36%) Kalman Filter
11 14 (5.36%) Mentoring
12 13 (4.98%) Customer Requirements
12 13 (4.98%) Memory Management
12 13 (4.98%) Multithreading
12 13 (4.98%) Test Automation
13 12 (4.60%) Digital Marketing
13 12 (4.60%) Programme Management
13 12 (4.60%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 121 (46.36%) C
2 108 (41.38%) C++
3 45 (17.24%) Java
4 39 (14.94%) Python
5 31 (11.88%) MATLAB
6 10 (3.83%) Bash
7 9 (3.45%) Perl
7 9 (3.45%) Tcl
8 8 (3.07%) Embedded C
8 8 (3.07%) VB
9 5 (1.92%) C#
10 4 (1.53%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.53%) SystemVerilog
11 2 (0.77%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.77%) Haskell
11 2 (0.77%) Rust
12 1 (0.38%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 133 (50.96%) Degree
2 41 (15.71%) Security Cleared
3 24 (9.20%) PhD
4 22 (8.43%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.98%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (3.83%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.53%) HND
8 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.15%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.07%) JTAG
2 3 (1.15%) ECSS
2 3 (1.15%) PMO
3 1 (0.38%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (0.38%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 99 (37.93%) Firmware
2 30 (11.49%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.38%) Nagios
2 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 32 (12.26%) EMC
2 28 (10.73%) Xilinx
3 15 (5.75%) Intel
4 12 (4.60%) Altera
4 12 (4.60%) SAP
5 8 (3.07%) Green Hills
5 8 (3.07%) Motorola
6 4 (1.53%) Mentor Graphics
6 4 (1.53%) Microsemi
6 4 (1.53%) Siemens
7 3 (1.15%) F5
7 3 (1.15%) Lattice Semiconductor
7 3 (1.15%) Oracle
7 3 (1.15%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.77%) Cadence
8 2 (0.77%) Keysight
9 1 (0.38%) CA
9 1 (0.38%) Dell
9 1 (0.38%) HP