The first table below looks at the demand for the Hardware Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Hardware Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hardware Engineer
Rank 126 117 117
Rank change year-on-year
-9 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Hardware Engineer 1 8 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.053% 0.404% 0.321%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.420% 0.340%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 7
Average salary £42,500 £28,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+49.12% -5.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+23.07% -13.33%
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1796 1905 2058
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 95.43% 96.26% 94.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1589 1612 1879
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Hardware Engineer
Cambridgeshire

Hardware Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Hardware Engineer across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Cambridge Hardware Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Hardware Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Hardware Engineer across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge Hardware Engineer Salary Trend

Hardware Engineer
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Hardware Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Hardware Engineer in their job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 4 (80.00%) Verilog
3 3 (60.00%) VHDL
3 3 (60.00%) Electronics
3 3 (60.00%) Degree
4 2 (40.00%) EMC
5 1 (20.00%) Firmware
5 1 (20.00%) Wireless
5 1 (20.00%) C
5 1 (20.00%) C++
5 1 (20.00%) JTAG

Hardware Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Hardware Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Hardware Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (60.00%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 4 (80.00%) Verilog
3 3 (60.00%) VHDL
4 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) JTAG
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) EMC
Cambridge
Senior Hardware Design Engineer - IC, firmware, board level designs, analogue, FPGA, digital, Verilog, PICs, EMC, RF... An experienced Hardware Engineer is sought to join a well-established team...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: £35,000 - £60,000 per year
Posted: 29 April 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
You will join the R&D team based in Cambridge and will be reporting to the VP of Hardware Engineering and will be working on FPGA based products...
ENTERPRISE RECRUITMENT LTD
Salary: £35000 to £55000 per annum - Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Initial bring-up and benchmarking of board designs... Experience writing Matlab scripts. Knowledge or Bluetooth and/or 802.11a/b/g systems... Keywords: Senior, Hardware, Engineer, Electronic, PCB,...
MJH Personnel Associates
Salary: Excellent + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013