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 advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited FPGA over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 541 579 607
Rank change year-on-year +38 +28 -81
Permanent jobs citing FPGA 230 151 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.27% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.92% 0.65% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 161 77 98
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,982 £40,775
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £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 £66,250 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £89,000 £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 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 25,110 23,253 33,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.90% 41.73% 44.51%
Number of salaries quoted 15,461 10,820 16,178
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 8 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 8 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 +28 76 £51,500 -26.43% 29
South East +8 70 £51,500 -17.05% 51
East of England +25 51 £50,000 -18.37% 66
Midlands -36 13 £40,000 -63.64% 14
East Midlands -28 12 £40,000 -50.00% 6
North of England -23 10 £50,000 +17.65% 5
North West -7 9 £50,000 - 5
Scotland -50 8 £55,000 - 11
Wales +5 2 £45,000 -18.18% 11
Yorkshire +32 1 - -
West Midlands -7 1 - - 8
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 (6.96%) Simulink
2 14 (6.09%) OrCAD
3 11 (4.78%) GNU Octave
4 5 (2.17%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (1.74%) Windchill
6 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (2.17%) AWS
2 4 (1.74%) Azure
2 4 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.30%) Ethernet
2 14 (6.09%) Wireless
3 13 (5.65%) Software-Defined Radio
4 12 (5.22%) 5G
5 11 (4.78%) OFDM
5 11 (4.78%) SD-WAN
5 11 (4.78%) WAN
6 7 (3.04%) DVB
6 7 (3.04%) RS-232
6 7 (3.04%) RS-485
7 5 (2.17%) 4G
8 2 (0.87%) Internet
8 2 (0.87%) RS-422
9 1 (0.43%) 3GPP
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
9 1 (0.43%) UMTS
Development Applications
1 17 (7.39%) Git
2 10 (4.35%) Subversion
3 7 (3.04%) 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
1 103 (44.78%) Electronics
2 46 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (17.39%) Manufacturing
4 38 (16.52%) Social Skills
5 25 (10.87%) Aerospace
6 17 (7.39%) Automotive
6 17 (7.39%) Finance
7 16 (6.96%) Telecoms
8 13 (5.65%) Public Sector
9 12 (5.22%) Marketing
10 11 (4.78%) Military
11 5 (2.17%) Aviation
11 5 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.74%) Law
12 4 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 55 (23.91%) Embedded Engineer
2 44 (19.13%) Design Engineer
3 43 (18.70%) Electronics Engineer
4 37 (16.09%) Lead
5 35 (15.22%) Hardware Engineer
5 35 (15.22%) Senior
6 30 (13.04%) Software Engineer
7 27 (11.74%) Systems Engineer
8 25 (10.87%) Graduate
9 21 (9.13%) FPGA Engineer
10 17 (7.39%) Digital Design Engineer
11 16 (6.96%) Junior
11 16 (6.96%) Lead Systems Engineer
12 15 (6.52%) Developer
13 14 (6.09%) Electronics Design Engineer
13 14 (6.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 13 (5.65%) Principal Engineer
15 12 (5.22%) FPGA Developer
16 11 (4.78%) DSP Engineer
17 10 (4.35%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.17%) Yocto
2 4 (1.74%) Flash
3 2 (0.87%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 2 (0.87%) POSIX
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Thrift
4 1 (0.43%) CSS
4 1 (0.43%) Flask
4 1 (0.43%) HTML
4 1 (0.43%) HTML5
4 1 (0.43%) LLVM
4 1 (0.43%) Qt
4 1 (0.43%) React
4 1 (0.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 94 (40.87%) VHDL
2 33 (14.35%) Algorithms
2 33 (14.35%) Verilog
3 29 (12.61%) Embedded Systems
4 24 (10.43%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (8.70%) Analogue Electronics
6 19 (8.26%) PCIe
7 18 (7.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (5.65%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (3.91%) GNSS
10 8 (3.48%) MicroBlaze
11 7 (3.04%) CPLD
12 3 (1.30%) CCTV
12 3 (1.30%) Device Driver
12 3 (1.30%) Fibre Optics
13 2 (0.87%) ASIC
13 2 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
13 2 (0.87%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.87%) IoT
13 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 51 (22.17%) Linux
2 11 (4.78%) Windows
3 10 (4.35%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (2.61%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.87%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (27.39%) FPGA Design
2 56 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (23.91%) Signal Processing
4 51 (22.17%) Software Engineering
5 49 (21.30%) Computer Science
6 28 (12.17%) Schematic Capture
7 27 (11.74%) Physics
8 24 (10.43%) Customer Service
8 24 (10.43%) Validation
9 22 (9.57%) Mathematics
10 16 (6.96%) Mentoring
11 15 (6.52%) Software Testing
12 13 (5.65%) Customer Requirements
12 13 (5.65%) Kalman Filter
12 13 (5.65%) Test Automation
13 12 (5.22%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (5.22%) Digital Marketing
13 12 (5.22%) Memory Management
13 12 (5.22%) Programme Management
14 11 (4.78%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 104 (45.22%) C
2 78 (33.91%) C++
3 32 (13.91%) MATLAB
4 29 (12.61%) Python
5 13 (5.65%) Java
6 12 (5.22%) Embedded C
7 11 (4.78%) Tcl
8 10 (4.35%) Bash
9 8 (3.48%) Perl
9 8 (3.48%) VB
10 5 (2.17%) SystemVerilog
11 4 (1.74%) C#
11 4 (1.74%) 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
1 134 (58.26%) Degree
2 41 (17.83%) Security Cleared
3 23 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 22 (9.57%) PhD
5 13 (5.65%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (3.91%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.74%) HND
9 3 (1.30%) HNC
10 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.04%) 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 (43.91%) Firmware
2 32 (13.91%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.87%) Ansible
2 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (13.91%) Xilinx
2 28 (12.17%) EMC
3 18 (7.83%) Intel
4 15 (6.52%) Altera
5 12 (5.22%) SAP
6 8 (3.48%) Green Hills
6 8 (3.48%) Motorola
7 5 (2.17%) Mentor Graphics
7 5 (2.17%) Microsemi
8 4 (1.74%) 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