FPGA Design Contracts

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 664 841
Rank change year-on-year +121 +177 -189
Contract jobs citing FPGA Design 33 20 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.078% 0.035% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.039% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 0
10th Percentile £291 £449 -
25th Percentile £531 £472 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% - -
75th Percentile £740 £588 -
90th Percentile £789 £620 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £593 £575 -
% change year-on-year +3.04% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 5
10th Percentile - £36.55 £72.00
25th Percentile £70.00 £44.51 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £57.76 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.50% -22.99% +50.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 £64.88 £85.00
90th Percentile £85.30 £69.15 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.00 £57.76 £75.00
% change year-on-year +38.50% -22.99% +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

FPGA Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing FPGA Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for FPGA Design in the UK

FPGA Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FPGA Design.

Daily rate trend for FPGA Design in the UK

FPGA Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FPGA Design over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FPGA Design in the UK

FPGA Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FPGA Design.

Hourly rate trend for FPGA Design in the UK

FPGA Design
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing FPGA Design over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for FPGA Design in the UK

FPGA Design
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 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
England +127 32 £593 +12.86% 76
UK excluding London +66 27 £593 +3.04% 71
Work from Home +133 19 £60 -88.57% 30
East of England +21 18 £550 +18.92% 27
South East +17 7 £685 - 26
London +105 6 - - 6
Midlands +24 1 £550 -4.35% 9
West Midlands +23 1 £550 -4.35% 6
Wales +18 1 - - 5
North West - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 2

FPGA Design
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 19 (57.58%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Ethernet
General
1 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.03%) Law
2 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (81.82%) FPGA Engineer
2 22 (66.67%) Design Engineer
3 21 (63.64%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Verification Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Lead
6 1 (3.03%) Senior
6 1 (3.03%) Senior FPGA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) JSON
1 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (100.00%) FPGA
2 23 (69.70%) VHDL
3 18 (54.55%) Verilog
4 6 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (15.15%) Algorithms
6 2 (6.06%) GNSS
7 1 (3.03%) ASIC
7 1 (3.03%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (3.03%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) UVM
2 18 (54.55%) Signal Processing
3 6 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 3 (9.09%) Risk Management
5 2 (6.06%) Digital Signal Processing
5 2 (6.06%) Open Source
5 2 (6.06%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.06%) Software Testing
5 2 (6.06%) Test Scripting
6 1 (3.03%) Architectural Design
6 1 (3.03%) Computer Science
6 1 (3.03%) Kalman Filter
6 1 (3.03%) Mathematics
6 1 (3.03%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 22 (66.67%) C
2 18 (54.55%) SystemVerilog
3 5 (15.15%) C++
3 5 (15.15%) Embedded C
3 5 (15.15%) Embedded C++
4 3 (9.09%) Python
5 2 (6.06%) MATLAB
6 1 (3.03%) Bash
6 1 (3.03%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 18 (54.55%) Degree
2 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Firmware
Vendors
1 25 (75.76%) Xilinx
2 18 (54.55%) Microsemi
3 17 (51.52%) Intel
4 5 (15.15%) Cadence
5 1 (3.03%) Altera