Senior Hardware Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Hardware Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Hardware Engineer daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 640 775
Rank change year-on-year +101 +135 -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Hardware Engineer 3 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.010% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.011% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £675 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £650 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +30.00% -4.76% +16.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £41.70 - £44.69
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - £48.60

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,916 46,484 67,372
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,507 32,994 47,972
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £639
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,425 1,382 1,859
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Hardware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Hardware Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Hardware Engineer in England

Senior Hardware Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Hardware Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Hardware Engineer in England

Senior Hardware Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Hardware Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Hardware Engineer in England

Senior Hardware Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Hardware Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
London - 2 £650 - 2
South East +16 1 - - 11
Senior Hardware Engineer
UK

Senior Hardware Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Senior Hardware Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior Hardware Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (33.33%) QNX
1 1 (33.33%) Video\Live Streaming
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
1 1 (33.33%) OOD
1 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Video Processing
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) CMake
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
1 1 (33.33%) Yocto
1 1 (33.33%) NVIDIA
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD

Senior Hardware Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (33.33%) CMake
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) OOD
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) NVIDIA
1 1 (33.33%) QNX