FPGA Design Contracts in the UK excluding London

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Design\Prototyping
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for FPGA Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FPGA Design over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 423 505
Rank change year-on-year +54 +82 -80
Contract jobs citing FPGA Design 30 15 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.066% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.074% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 0
10th Percentile £263 £477 -
25th Percentile £463 £508 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £705 £613 -
90th Percentile £786 £636 -
UK median daily rate £550 £525 -
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 5
10th Percentile £69.78 £33.90 £72.00
25th Percentile £70.00 £37.88 -
Median hourly rate £76.25 £45.13 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.96% -39.83% +50.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 £51.76 £85.00
90th Percentile £85.10 £55.36 -
UK median hourly rate £76.25 £45.13 £75.00
% change year-on-year +68.96% -39.83% +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

FPGA Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,325 20,337 27,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.38% 89.23% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,289 13,953 19,001
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,130 1,241 1,347
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.63 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

FPGA Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing FPGA Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for FPGA Design in the UK excluding London

FPGA Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FPGA Design in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for FPGA Design in the UK excluding London

FPGA Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FPGA Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FPGA Design in the UK excluding London

FPGA Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FPGA Design in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for FPGA Design in the UK excluding London

FPGA Design
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing FPGA Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for FPGA Design in the UK excluding London

FPGA Design
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA Design within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England +21 19 £550 +18.92% 26
South East +15 7 £685 - 24
Wales +23 2 - - 8
Midlands +19 1 £550 -4.35% 3
West Midlands +13 1 £550 -4.35% 3
South West +9 1 £400 - 17
North West - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1
FPGA Design
UK

FPGA Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 19 (63.33%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Software-Defined Radio
General
1 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (3.33%) Electronics
2 1 (3.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (96.67%) FPGA Engineer
2 22 (73.33%) Design Engineer
3 21 (70.00%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Firmware Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Senior
4 1 (3.33%) Senior FPGA Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) JSON
1 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (100.00%) FPGA
2 26 (86.67%) VHDL
3 21 (70.00%) Verilog
4 5 (16.67%) Algorithms
5 2 (6.67%) GNSS
6 1 (3.33%) ASIC
6 1 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) Signal Processing
2 18 (60.00%) UVM
3 3 (10.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (6.67%) Digital Signal Processing
4 2 (6.67%) Open Source
4 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (6.67%) Software Testing
4 2 (6.67%) Test Scripting
5 1 (3.33%) Architectural Design
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (3.33%) Electronic Design Automation
5 1 (3.33%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (3.33%) Mathematics
5 1 (3.33%) Prototyping
5 1 (3.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (73.33%) C
2 20 (66.67%) SystemVerilog
3 5 (16.67%) C++
3 5 (16.67%) Embedded C
3 5 (16.67%) Embedded C++
4 3 (10.00%) Python
5 2 (6.67%) MATLAB
6 1 (3.33%) Bash
6 1 (3.33%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 18 (60.00%) Degree
2 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) DO-254
1 1 (3.33%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 26 (86.67%) Xilinx
2 19 (63.33%) Microsemi
3 17 (56.67%) Intel
4 1 (3.33%) Actel
4 1 (3.33%) Altera
4 1 (3.33%) Lattice Semiconductor
4 1 (3.33%) Siemens