Senior Hardware Engineer Contracts

Senior Hardware Engineer
UK

The median Senior Hardware Engineer daily rate in the UK is £530 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 695 856
Rank change year-on-year +123 +161 -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Hardware Engineer 7 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.008% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.009% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £427 - -
25th Percentile £460 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £610 - £538
90th Percentile £649 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -18.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £45.36 - £45.35
25th Percentile £50.85 - £46.33
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £48.60
75th Percentile - - £51.49
90th Percentile - - £52.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 - £52.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Senior Hardware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Hardware Engineer in the UK

Senior Hardware Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Hardware Engineer in the UK

Senior Hardware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Hardware Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Hardware Engineer in the UK

Senior Hardware Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Hardware Engineer in the UK

Senior Hardware Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Hardware Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Hardware Engineer in the UK

Senior Hardware Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
UK excluding London +69 5 £410 -18.00% 20
England +113 4 £530 +6.00% 22
South East +22 2 £410 -18.00% 7
Scotland - 2 - - 1
London - 2 £650 - 1
Wales - 1 - -

Senior Hardware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 featuring Senior Hardware Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (28.57%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) OO
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (14.29%) OOD
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) QNX
2 1 (14.29%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (14.29%) C
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) WPF
2 1 (14.29%) Qualys
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Video Processing
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) CMake
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) SDLC

Senior Hardware Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (14.29%) CMake
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) WPF
1 1 (14.29%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
1 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
1 1 (14.29%) OO
1 1 (14.29%) OOD
1 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (14.29%) SDLC
1 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
1 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
1 1 (14.29%) Video Processing
1 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) C
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Python
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) NVIDIA
1 1 (14.29%) QNX
1 1 (14.29%) Qualys