FPGA Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited FPGA over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 570 585
Rank change year-on-year +20 +15 -54
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 231 150 284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.27% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.91% 0.65% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 162 78 98
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,987 £40,775
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,375 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -14.29% +37.25%
75th Percentile £65,938 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £88,625 £91,125
UK median annual salary £51,500 £62,086 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.05% -11.31% +37.25%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 25,376 23,140 33,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.81% 41.72% 44.68%
Number of salaries quoted 15,534 10,845 16,072
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

FPGA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in the UK excluding London

FPGA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FPGA in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for FPGA in the UK excluding London

FPGA
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing FPGA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for FPGA in the UK excluding London

FPGA
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
South West +33 76 £51,500 -27.72% 29
South East -11 70 £50,000 -19.47% 45
East of England +29 51 £50,000 -18.37% 56
Midlands -23 13 £40,000 -63.64% 15
East Midlands -32 12 £40,000 -50.00% 8
North of England -15 10 £50,000 +17.65% 3
North West -19 9 £50,000 - 3
Scotland -54 9 £43,750 - 13
Wales +9 2 £45,000 -18.18% 5
Yorkshire +21 1 - -
West Midlands -16 1 - - 7
FPGA
UK

FPGA
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.43%) Kinematics
Applications
1 16 (6.93%) Simulink
2 14 (6.06%) OrCAD
3 11 (4.76%) GNU Octave
4 5 (2.16%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (1.73%) Windchill
6 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (2.16%) AWS
2 4 (1.73%) Azure
2 4 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.26%) Ethernet
2 14 (6.06%) Wireless
3 13 (5.63%) Software-Defined Radio
4 12 (5.19%) 5G
5 11 (4.76%) OFDM
5 11 (4.76%) SD-WAN
5 11 (4.76%) WAN
6 7 (3.03%) DVB
6 7 (3.03%) RS-232
6 7 (3.03%) RS-485
7 5 (2.16%) 4G
8 2 (0.87%) Internet
8 2 (0.87%) RS-422
9 1 (0.43%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.43%) 5G NR
9 1 (0.43%) GSM
9 1 (0.43%) LTE
9 1 (0.43%) Modbus
9 1 (0.43%) MQTT
9 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 17 (7.36%) Git
2 10 (4.33%) Subversion
3 7 (3.03%) LabVIEW
4 3 (1.30%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.87%) PetaLinux
5 2 (0.87%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.43%) CMake
6 1 (0.43%) GCC
6 1 (0.43%) GDB
6 1 (0.43%) JIRA
6 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 104 (45.02%) Electronics
2 47 (20.35%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (17.32%) Manufacturing
4 38 (16.45%) Social Skills
5 26 (11.26%) Aerospace
6 17 (7.36%) Automotive
6 17 (7.36%) Finance
7 16 (6.93%) Telecoms
8 13 (5.63%) Public Sector
9 12 (5.19%) Marketing
10 11 (4.76%) Military
11 5 (2.16%) Aviation
11 5 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.73%) Law
12 4 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 54 (23.38%) Embedded Engineer
2 44 (19.05%) Design Engineer
3 43 (18.61%) Electronics Engineer
4 37 (16.02%) Lead
5 35 (15.15%) Hardware Engineer
6 34 (14.72%) Senior
7 31 (13.42%) Software Engineer
8 27 (11.69%) Systems Engineer
9 26 (11.26%) Graduate
10 21 (9.09%) FPGA Engineer
11 17 (7.36%) Digital Design Engineer
12 16 (6.93%) Junior
12 16 (6.93%) Lead Systems Engineer
13 15 (6.49%) Developer
14 14 (6.06%) Electronics Design Engineer
14 14 (6.06%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 13 (5.63%) Principal Engineer
16 12 (5.19%) FPGA Developer
17 11 (4.76%) DSP Engineer
18 10 (4.33%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.73%) Flash
1 4 (1.73%) Yocto
2 2 (0.87%) POSIX
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Thrift
3 1 (0.43%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (0.43%) CSS
3 1 (0.43%) Flask
3 1 (0.43%) HTML
3 1 (0.43%) HTML5
3 1 (0.43%) LLVM
3 1 (0.43%) Qt
3 1 (0.43%) React
3 1 (0.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 95 (41.13%) VHDL
2 34 (14.72%) Algorithms
3 33 (14.29%) Verilog
4 28 (12.12%) Embedded Systems
5 24 (10.39%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (9.09%) Analogue Electronics
7 19 (8.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (8.23%) PCIe
8 14 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (3.90%) GNSS
10 8 (3.46%) MicroBlaze
11 7 (3.03%) CPLD
12 3 (1.30%) CCTV
12 3 (1.30%) Fibre Optics
13 2 (0.87%) ASIC
13 2 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
13 2 (0.87%) Device Driver
13 2 (0.87%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.87%) IoT
13 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 50 (21.65%) Linux
2 11 (4.76%) Windows
3 9 (3.90%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (2.60%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.87%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (27.27%) FPGA Design
2 56 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (24.24%) Signal Processing
3 51 (22.08%) Software Engineering
4 49 (21.21%) Computer Science
5 29 (12.55%) Schematic Capture
6 28 (12.12%) Physics
7 24 (10.39%) Customer Service
7 24 (10.39%) Validation
8 23 (9.96%) Mathematics
9 16 (6.93%) Mentoring
10 15 (6.49%) Software Testing
11 13 (5.63%) Customer Requirements
11 13 (5.63%) Kalman Filter
11 13 (5.63%) Test Automation
12 12 (5.19%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (5.19%) Digital Marketing
12 12 (5.19%) Programme Management
13 11 (4.76%) B2B
13 11 (4.76%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 104 (45.02%) C
2 78 (33.77%) C++
3 32 (13.85%) MATLAB
4 29 (12.55%) Python
5 14 (6.06%) Java
6 12 (5.19%) Embedded C
7 11 (4.76%) Tcl
8 10 (4.33%) Bash
9 8 (3.46%) Perl
9 8 (3.46%) VB
10 5 (2.16%) SystemVerilog
11 4 (1.73%) C#
11 4 (1.73%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.87%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.87%) Haskell
12 2 (0.87%) Rust
13 1 (0.43%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 136 (58.87%) Degree
2 42 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 24 (10.39%) SC Cleared
4 23 (9.96%) PhD
5 14 (6.06%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (3.90%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.73%) HND
9 3 (1.30%) HNC
10 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.03%) JTAG
2 3 (1.30%) ECSS
2 3 (1.30%) PMO
3 2 (0.87%) DO-254
4 1 (0.43%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.43%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 101 (43.72%) Firmware
2 32 (13.85%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.87%) Ansible
2 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (13.85%) Xilinx
2 28 (12.12%) EMC
3 18 (7.79%) Intel
4 15 (6.49%) Altera
5 12 (5.19%) SAP
6 8 (3.46%) Green Hills
6 8 (3.46%) Motorola
7 5 (2.16%) Mentor Graphics
7 5 (2.16%) Microsemi
8 4 (1.73%) Siemens
9 3 (1.30%) Lattice Semiconductor
10 2 (0.87%) Cadence
10 2 (0.87%) Keysight
11 1 (0.43%) Actel
11 1 (0.43%) CA