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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 655 779 951
Rank change year-on-year +124 +172 -210
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 274 166 340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.75% 0.41% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 189 88 122
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,875 £34,990
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £62,086 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% -11.31% +37.25%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -14.29% +37.25%

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 36,675 40,106 83,653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.82% 43.08% 48.67%
Number of salaries quoted 23,359 22,226 34,621
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,570 £45,500
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 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £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 9 June 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 9 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
England +125 262 £52,000 -16.25% 175
UK excluding London +11 230 £50,000 -16.67% 171
Work from Home +80 88 £57,500 +6.98% 56
South West +32 76 £51,500 -27.72% 29
South East +8 70 £51,500 -17.05% 53
East of England +25 51 £50,000 -18.37% 61
London +98 42 £98,750 +9.72% 16
Midlands -30 13 £40,000 -63.64% 16
East Midlands -29 12 £40,000 -50.00% 9
North of England -12 10 £50,000 +17.65% 5
North West -8 9 £50,000 - 5
Scotland -56 8 £55,000 - 13
Wales +10 2 £45,000 -18.18% 11
Yorkshire +27 1 - -
West Midlands -13 1 - - 7

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 2 (0.73%) Apache
1 2 (0.73%) nginx
2 1 (0.36%) Kinematics
Applications
1 16 (5.84%) Simulink
2 14 (5.11%) OrCAD
3 11 (4.01%) GNU Octave
4 5 (1.82%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (1.46%) Windchill
6 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (4.38%) AWS
2 11 (4.01%) Azure
3 4 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.49%) Ethernet
2 20 (7.30%) TCP/IP
3 15 (5.47%) WAN
4 14 (5.11%) Wireless
5 13 (4.74%) Software-Defined Radio
6 12 (4.38%) 5G
7 11 (4.01%) OFDM
7 11 (4.01%) SD-WAN
8 7 (2.55%) DVB
8 7 (2.55%) RS-232
8 7 (2.55%) RS-485
9 6 (2.19%) DNS
9 6 (2.19%) NAS
9 6 (2.19%) SAN
10 5 (1.82%) 4G
11 4 (1.46%) LAN
11 4 (1.46%) SNMP
12 2 (0.73%) DHCP
12 2 (0.73%) Internet
12 2 (0.73%) RS-422
Development Applications
1 17 (6.20%) Git
2 12 (4.38%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.65%) Subversion
4 7 (2.55%) GitLab
4 7 (2.55%) LabVIEW
5 2 (0.73%) JUnit
5 2 (0.73%) PetaLinux
5 2 (0.73%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.36%) CMake
6 1 (0.36%) GCC
6 1 (0.36%) GDB
6 1 (0.36%) JIRA
6 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 106 (38.69%) Electronics
2 47 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (16.79%) Social Skills
4 44 (16.06%) Finance
5 40 (14.60%) Manufacturing
6 25 (9.12%) Aerospace
7 17 (6.20%) Automotive
8 16 (5.84%) Telecoms
9 13 (4.74%) Public Sector
10 12 (4.38%) Marketing
11 11 (4.01%) Military
12 7 (2.55%) Front Office
13 6 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.82%) Aviation
14 5 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.46%) Banking
15 4 (1.46%) Law
15 4 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
17 1 (0.36%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 56 (20.44%) Embedded Engineer
2 45 (16.42%) Electronics Engineer
3 44 (16.06%) Design Engineer
3 44 (16.06%) Senior
4 39 (14.23%) Lead
5 36 (13.14%) Hardware Engineer
6 34 (12.41%) Developer
7 33 (12.04%) Software Engineer
8 27 (9.85%) Systems Engineer
9 25 (9.12%) Graduate
10 22 (8.03%) FPGA Engineer
11 17 (6.20%) C++ Developer
11 17 (6.20%) Digital Design Engineer
12 16 (5.84%) Junior
12 16 (5.84%) Lead Systems Engineer
13 15 (5.47%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 15 (5.47%) FPGA Developer
14 14 (5.11%) Electronics Design Engineer
15 13 (4.74%) Low Latency C++ Developer
15 13 (4.74%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.82%) Yocto
2 4 (1.46%) Flash
2 4 (1.46%) LDAP
3 2 (0.73%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 2 (0.73%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (0.73%) OpenMP
3 2 (0.73%) POSIX
3 2 (0.73%) STL
4 1 (0.36%) .NET
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Thrift
4 1 (0.36%) COM
4 1 (0.36%) CSS
4 1 (0.36%) Flask
4 1 (0.36%) HTML
4 1 (0.36%) HTML5
4 1 (0.36%) LLVM
4 1 (0.36%) Qt
4 1 (0.36%) React
4 1 (0.36%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 99 (36.13%) VHDL
2 36 (13.14%) Verilog
3 35 (12.77%) Algorithms
4 29 (10.58%) Embedded Systems
5 24 (8.76%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (7.30%) Analogue Electronics
7 19 (6.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (6.93%) PCIe
8 13 (4.74%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (4.01%) Equities
10 9 (3.28%) GNSS
11 8 (2.92%) MicroBlaze
12 7 (2.55%) CPLD
13 4 (1.46%) ASIC
13 4 (1.46%) Hedge funds
14 3 (1.09%) CCTV
14 3 (1.09%) Device Driver
14 3 (1.09%) Fibre Optics
15 2 (0.73%) Cyber Defence
15 2 (0.73%) VLSI
Operating Systems
1 81 (29.56%) Linux
2 12 (4.38%) Windows
3 11 (4.01%) Embedded Linux
4 9 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.55%) FreeRTOS
6 6 (2.19%) CentOS
6 6 (2.19%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (1.09%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (22.99%) FPGA Design
2 60 (21.90%) Software Engineering
3 58 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (20.44%) Signal Processing
5 55 (20.07%) Computer Science
6 28 (10.22%) Schematic Capture
7 27 (9.85%) Physics
8 25 (9.12%) Low Latency
9 24 (8.76%) Customer Service
9 24 (8.76%) Validation
10 22 (8.03%) Mathematics
11 17 (6.20%) Software Testing
12 16 (5.84%) Mentoring
13 14 (5.11%) Kalman Filter
14 13 (4.74%) Customer Requirements
14 13 (4.74%) Test Automation
15 12 (4.38%) Digital Marketing
15 12 (4.38%) Memory Management
15 12 (4.38%) Multithreading
15 12 (4.38%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 119 (43.43%) C
2 106 (38.69%) C++
3 47 (17.15%) Python
4 44 (16.06%) Java
5 32 (11.68%) MATLAB
6 14 (5.11%) Perl
7 12 (4.38%) Embedded C
8 11 (4.01%) Tcl
9 10 (3.65%) Bash
10 8 (2.92%) VB
11 5 (1.82%) C#
11 5 (1.82%) SystemVerilog
12 4 (1.46%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.73%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.73%) Haskell
13 2 (0.73%) Rust
14 1 (0.36%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 141 (51.46%) Degree
2 41 (14.96%) Security Cleared
3 24 (8.76%) PhD
4 23 (8.39%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.74%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.01%) Master's Degree
7 10 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.46%) HND
9 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.09%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.92%) JTAG
2 3 (1.09%) ECSS
2 3 (1.09%) PMO
3 2 (0.73%) DO-254
4 1 (0.36%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.36%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 103 (37.59%) Firmware
2 32 (11.68%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (4.01%) Ansible
2 5 (1.82%) Nagios
2 5 (1.82%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (11.68%) Xilinx
2 28 (10.22%) EMC
3 18 (6.57%) Intel
4 15 (5.47%) Altera
5 12 (4.38%) SAP
6 9 (3.28%) F5
6 9 (3.28%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.92%) Green Hills
7 8 (2.92%) Motorola
8 6 (2.19%) Oracle
9 5 (1.82%) Mentor Graphics
9 5 (1.82%) Microsemi
10 4 (1.46%) Siemens
11 3 (1.09%) Lattice Semiconductor
12 2 (0.73%) Cadence
12 2 (0.73%) Dell
12 2 (0.73%) HP
12 2 (0.73%) Keysight
13 1 (0.36%) Actel
13 1 (0.36%) CA