Cambridgeshire Hardware Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Hardware Engineer role in IT jobs within the Cambridgeshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Hardware Engineer
Location Aylesbury Barking Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carmarthen Carmarthenshire Cheadle Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Coventry Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Epsom Essex Fareham Filton Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harlow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Littlehampton Liverpool Livingston London Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Reading Saffron Walden Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Suffolk Surrey Tewkesbury Tyne and Wear UK Wales Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	138	117
Rank change on same period last year	-21
Matching permanent IT job ads	33	51
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	0.794 %	1.293 %
Salaries quoted	26	38
Average minimum salary	£31,172	£34,079
Average salary	£35,017	£38,947
% change on same period last year	-10.09 %
Average maximum salary	£38,862	£43,816
UK excluding London average salary	£31,871	£32,498
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Job Titles Cambridgeshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	4157	3943
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.189 %	1.617 %
Salaries quoted	3520	3300
Average minimum salary	£32,838	£31,870
Average salary	£35,931	£35,125
% change on same period last year	+2.29 %
Average maximum salary	£39,024	£38,381
UK excluding London average salary	£38,194	£39,492
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
Hardware Engineer East of England

Hardware Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Hardware Engineer across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Hardware Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Hardware Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Hardware Engineer across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

Hardware Engineer
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hardware Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	-34	26	£39,105	+0.19 %
Peterborough	-	7	£24,643	-

Hardware Engineer East of England

Hardware Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 39 (52.00 %) Degree 2 38 (50.67 %) Electronics 3 33 (44.00 %) Manufacturing 4 31 (41.33 %) C 5 30 (40.00 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 6 24 (32.00 %) Wireless 7 21 (28.00 %) Assembly Language 8 14 (18.67 %) UWB 9 13 (17.33 %) Physics 9 13 (17.33 %) EMC 10 12 (16.00 %) HP 11 11 (14.67 %) C++ 11 11 (14.67 %) Firmware 12 8 (10.67 %) Dell 13 7 (9.333 %) Dell Certification

14 6 (8.000 %) Handset 14 6 (8.000 %) TETRA 14 6 (8.000 %) GSM 15 5 (6.667 %) Compaq 15 5 (6.667 %) Toshiba 16 4 (5.333 %) VHDL 16 4 (5.333 %) CAD 16 4 (5.333 %) 3G 16 4 (5.333 %) Security Cleared 16 4 (5.333 %) Life Science 17 3 (4.000 %) CAE 17 3 (4.000 %) Microsoft 17 3 (4.000 %) MS Office 17 3 (4.000 %) UNIX 17 3 (4.000 %) DECT

Hardware Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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.

Application Development 1 1 (1.333 %) OpenGL	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.667 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 3 (4.000 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.333 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.333 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 24 (32.00 %) Wireless 2 14 (18.67 %) UWB 3 6 (8.000 %) TETRA 3 6 (8.000 %) GSM 4 4 (5.333 %) 3G 5 3 (4.000 %) DECT 6 2 (2.667 %) LAN 6 2 (2.667 %) TCP/IP 6 2 (2.667 %) DNS
General 1 38 (50.67 %) Electronics 2 33 (44.00 %) Manufacturing 3 3 (4.000 %) Telecoms 3 3 (4.000 %) Electric 4 2 (2.667 %) Health 4 2 (2.667 %) Law 4 2 (2.667 %) Pensions 5 1 (1.333 %) Marketing 5 1 (1.333 %) 3D Graphics 5 1 (1.333 %) Government 5 1 (1.333 %) Finance 5 1 (1.333 %) Automotive	Miscellaneous 1 30 (40.00 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 13 (17.33 %) Physics 3 11 (14.67 %) Firmware 4 6 (8.000 %) Handset 5 4 (5.333 %) VHDL 5 4 (5.333 %) Life Science 6 1 (1.333 %) Data Conversion 6 1 (1.333 %) Computer Science 6 1 (1.333 %) Verilog 6 1 (1.333 %) ASIC
Operating Systems 1 3 (4.000 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (5.333 %) CAD 1 4 (5.333 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (4.000 %) CAE 3 2 (2.667 %) Validation 4 1 (1.333 %) PDM 4 1 (1.333 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 31 (41.33 %) C 2 21 (28.00 %) Assembly Language 3 11 (14.67 %) C++ 4 1 (1.333 %) C#	Qualifications 1 39 (52.00 %) Degree 2 7 (9.333 %) Dell Certification 3 1 (1.333 %) Network+ Certification 3 1 (1.333 %) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.333 %) SLA	System Software 1 2 (2.667 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 13 (17.33 %) EMC 2 12 (16.00 %) HP 3 8 (10.67 %) Dell 4 5 (6.667 %) Toshiba 4 5 (6.667 %) Compaq 5 3 (4.000 %) Microsoft 6 2 (2.667 %) IBM 7 1 (1.333 %) Xilinx