FPGA Jobs in England

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term FPGA in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. 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 598 723 918
Rank change year-on-year +125 +195 -207
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 262 157 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% 0.44% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 182 86 111
10th Percentile £33,000 £40,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £62,086 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% -11.31% +33.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £51,500 £62,086 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.05% -11.31% +37.25%

All Generic Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 31,346 36,060 68,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.28% 43.63% 47.60%
Number of salaries quoted 21,105 20,106 30,878
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,125 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,300 £46,900 £46,250
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 £87,480 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for FPGA in England

FPGA
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FPGA in England.

Salary trend for FPGA in England

FPGA
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing FPGA in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for FPGA in England

FPGA
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FPGA within the England region 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
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
Yorkshire +27 1 - -
West Midlands -13 1 - - 7
FPGA
UK

FPGA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (0.76%) Apache
1 2 (0.76%) nginx
2 1 (0.38%) Kinematics
Applications
1 16 (6.11%) Simulink
2 13 (4.96%) OrCAD
3 11 (4.20%) GNU Octave
4 5 (1.91%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (1.53%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 12 (4.58%) AWS
2 11 (4.20%) Azure
3 4 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.78%) Ethernet
2 19 (7.25%) TCP/IP
3 15 (5.73%) WAN
4 14 (5.34%) Wireless
5 13 (4.96%) Software-Defined Radio
6 12 (4.58%) 5G
7 11 (4.20%) OFDM
7 11 (4.20%) SD-WAN
8 7 (2.67%) DVB
9 6 (2.29%) DNS
9 6 (2.29%) NAS
9 6 (2.29%) SAN
10 5 (1.91%) 4G
10 5 (1.91%) RS-232
10 5 (1.91%) RS-485
11 4 (1.53%) LAN
11 4 (1.53%) SNMP
12 2 (0.76%) DHCP
12 2 (0.76%) Internet
13 1 (0.38%) GSM
Development Applications
1 15 (5.73%) Git
2 12 (4.58%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.05%) Subversion
4 7 (2.67%) GitLab
4 7 (2.67%) LabVIEW
5 2 (0.76%) JUnit
5 2 (0.76%) PetaLinux
5 2 (0.76%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.38%) CMake
6 1 (0.38%) GCC
6 1 (0.38%) GDB
6 1 (0.38%) JIRA
General
1 100 (38.17%) Electronics
2 47 (17.94%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (17.18%) Social Skills
4 43 (16.41%) Finance
5 35 (13.36%) Manufacturing
6 24 (9.16%) Aerospace
7 17 (6.49%) Automotive
8 15 (5.73%) Telecoms
9 12 (4.58%) Public Sector
10 11 (4.20%) Marketing
10 11 (4.20%) Military
11 7 (2.67%) Front Office
12 5 (1.91%) Aviation
12 5 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.53%) Banking
13 4 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.15%) Law
15 1 (0.38%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (20.61%) Embedded Engineer
2 43 (16.41%) Electronics Engineer
3 42 (16.03%) Design Engineer
4 41 (15.65%) Senior
5 38 (14.50%) Lead
6 34 (12.98%) Developer
7 33 (12.60%) Hardware Engineer
8 32 (12.21%) Software Engineer
9 27 (10.31%) Systems Engineer
10 25 (9.54%) Graduate
11 18 (6.87%) FPGA Engineer
12 17 (6.49%) C++ Developer
13 16 (6.11%) Digital Design Engineer
13 16 (6.11%) Junior
13 16 (6.11%) Lead Systems Engineer
14 15 (5.73%) FPGA Developer
15 14 (5.34%) Electronics Design Engineer
15 14 (5.34%) Embedded Software Engineer
16 13 (4.96%) Low Latency C++ Developer
16 13 (4.96%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.91%) Yocto
2 4 (1.53%) Flash
2 4 (1.53%) LDAP
3 2 (0.76%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 2 (0.76%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (0.76%) OpenMP
3 2 (0.76%) POSIX
3 2 (0.76%) STL
4 1 (0.38%) .NET
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Thrift
4 1 (0.38%) COM
4 1 (0.38%) CSS
4 1 (0.38%) Flask
4 1 (0.38%) HTML
4 1 (0.38%) HTML5
4 1 (0.38%) LLVM
4 1 (0.38%) Qt
4 1 (0.38%) React
4 1 (0.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 91 (34.73%) VHDL
2 35 (13.36%) Verilog
3 34 (12.98%) Algorithms
4 28 (10.69%) Embedded Systems
5 24 (9.16%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (7.63%) Analogue Electronics
7 19 (7.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (6.11%) PCIe
9 13 (4.96%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (4.20%) Equities
11 9 (3.44%) GNSS
12 8 (3.05%) MicroBlaze
13 7 (2.67%) CPLD
14 4 (1.53%) Hedge funds
15 3 (1.15%) ASIC
15 3 (1.15%) CCTV
15 3 (1.15%) Device Driver
15 3 (1.15%) Fibre Optics
16 2 (0.76%) Cyber Defence
16 2 (0.76%) VLSI
Operating Systems
1 78 (29.77%) Linux
2 11 (4.20%) Embedded Linux
2 11 (4.20%) Windows
3 9 (3.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.29%) CentOS
4 6 (2.29%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (2.29%) Oracle Linux
5 3 (1.15%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (23.66%) FPGA Design
2 59 (22.52%) Software Engineering
3 58 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (20.99%) Signal Processing
5 54 (20.61%) Computer Science
6 26 (9.92%) Physics
7 25 (9.54%) Low Latency
7 25 (9.54%) Schematic Capture
8 24 (9.16%) Customer Service
8 24 (9.16%) Validation
9 22 (8.40%) Mathematics
10 17 (6.49%) Software Testing
11 14 (5.34%) Kalman Filter
11 14 (5.34%) Mentoring
12 13 (4.96%) Customer Requirements
12 13 (4.96%) Test Automation
13 12 (4.58%) Memory Management
13 12 (4.58%) Multithreading
14 11 (4.20%) Defect Tracking
14 11 (4.20%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 115 (43.89%) C
2 105 (40.08%) C++
3 44 (16.79%) Java
4 42 (16.03%) Python
5 32 (12.21%) MATLAB
6 14 (5.34%) Perl
7 10 (3.82%) Embedded C
8 8 (3.05%) Bash
8 8 (3.05%) Tcl
8 8 (3.05%) VB
9 5 (1.91%) SystemVerilog
10 4 (1.53%) C#
11 2 (0.76%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.76%) Haskell
11 2 (0.76%) Rust
11 2 (0.76%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.38%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 135 (51.53%) Degree
2 41 (15.65%) Security Cleared
3 24 (9.16%) PhD
4 23 (8.78%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.96%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (3.82%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.76%) HND
9 1 (0.38%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.05%) JTAG
2 3 (1.15%) ECSS
2 3 (1.15%) PMO
3 2 (0.76%) DO-254
4 1 (0.38%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.38%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 100 (38.17%) Firmware
2 31 (11.83%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (4.20%) Ansible
2 5 (1.91%) Nagios
2 5 (1.91%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (10.69%) Xilinx
2 25 (9.54%) EMC
3 14 (5.34%) Intel
4 11 (4.20%) SAP
5 9 (3.44%) Altera
5 9 (3.44%) F5
5 9 (3.44%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.05%) Green Hills
6 8 (3.05%) Motorola
7 6 (2.29%) Oracle
8 5 (1.91%) Mentor Graphics
8 5 (1.91%) Microsemi
9 4 (1.53%) Siemens
10 2 (0.76%) Dell
10 2 (0.76%) HP
10 2 (0.76%) Keysight
11 1 (0.38%) Actel
11 1 (0.38%) CA