FPGA Design Contracts

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring FPGA Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FPGA Design over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 680 840
Rank change year-on-year +137 +160 -127
Contract jobs citing FPGA Design 41 17 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.031% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.034% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 2
10th Percentile £297 £449 -
25th Percentile £428 £472 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £556
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -5.62% +39.06%
75th Percentile £670 £588 £559
90th Percentile £783 £620 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £556
% change year-on-year -4.35% +3.37% +39.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 4
10th Percentile £69.78 £33.90 £71.50
25th Percentile £70.00 £37.88 £73.75
Median hourly rate £76.25 £45.13 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.96% -43.59% +52.38%
75th Percentile £85.00 £51.76 £85.00
90th Percentile £85.10 £55.36 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.25 £45.13 £80.00
% change year-on-year +68.96% -43.59% +52.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

FPGA Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 13 June 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 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for FPGA Design in the UK

FPGA Design
Top 12 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 13 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +109 39 £550 +4.76% 58
UK excluding London +47 32 £550 -4.35% 55
Work from Home +130 20 £60 -88.57% 17
East of England +18 20 £550 +18.92% 20
London +88 9 £475 -9.52% 3
South East +22 8 £685 - 15
Wales +22 2 - - 4
North West - 2 - - 1
North of England - 2 - - 1
West Midlands +15 1 £550 -4.35% 5
Midlands +14 1 £550 -4.35% 9
South West +2 1 £400 - 12

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 21 (51.22%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.44%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (4.88%) Law
1 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
1 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.44%) Aerospace
2 1 (2.44%) Electronics
2 1 (2.44%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (80.49%) FPGA Engineer
2 24 (58.54%) Design Engineer
3 22 (53.66%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 9 (21.95%) Verification Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Lead
6 1 (2.44%) Digital Hardware Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Firmware Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Hardware Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Senior
6 1 (2.44%) Senior FPGA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) JSON
1 1 (2.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (100.00%) FPGA
2 28 (68.29%) VHDL
3 22 (53.66%) Verilog
4 9 (21.95%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (14.63%) Algorithms
6 2 (4.88%) GNSS
7 1 (2.44%) ASIC
7 1 (2.44%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (2.44%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (2.44%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (68.29%) UVM
2 19 (46.34%) Signal Processing
3 9 (21.95%) Data Protection
4 3 (7.32%) Risk Management
5 2 (4.88%) Digital Signal Processing
5 2 (4.88%) Open Source
5 2 (4.88%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (4.88%) Software Testing
5 2 (4.88%) Test Scripting
6 1 (2.44%) Architectural Design
6 1 (2.44%) Computer Science
6 1 (2.44%) Configuration Management
6 1 (2.44%) Electronic Design Automation
6 1 (2.44%) Kalman Filter
6 1 (2.44%) Mathematics
6 1 (2.44%) Prototyping
6 1 (2.44%) Requirements Management
6 1 (2.44%) Software Engineering
6 1 (2.44%) SysML
6 1 (2.44%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 23 (56.10%) C
2 21 (51.22%) SystemVerilog
3 5 (12.20%) C++
3 5 (12.20%) Embedded C
3 5 (12.20%) Embedded C++
4 3 (7.32%) MATLAB
4 3 (7.32%) Python
5 1 (2.44%) Bash
5 1 (2.44%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 19 (46.34%) Degree
2 9 (21.95%) Security Cleared
3 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.32%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) DO-254
2 1 (2.44%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Firmware
Vendors
1 27 (65.85%) Xilinx
2 20 (48.78%) Microsemi
3 18 (43.90%) Intel
4 8 (19.51%) Cadence
5 1 (2.44%) Actel
5 1 (2.44%) Altera
5 1 (2.44%) Lattice Semiconductor
5 1 (2.44%) Mentor Graphics
5 1 (2.44%) Siemens