The first table below looks at the demand for the Hardware Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the East of England 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hardware Engineer
Rank 238 237 243
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Hardware Engineer 31 35 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.375% 0.402% 0.190%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.393% 0.416% 0.200%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 15
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £18,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £54,250 £42,100
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+23.07% -13.33%
All Job Titles
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7891 8411 8993
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 95.43% 96.72% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6875 7028 7682
Average salary £39,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Hardware Engineer
England

Hardware Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England Hardware Engineer Salary Trend

Hardware Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Hardware Engineer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England Hardware Engineer Salary Histogram

Hardware Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hardware Engineer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Essex +38 13 £25,000 +35.13%
Hertfordshire +6 11 £35,000 -20.00%
Bedfordshire -10 3 £40,000 +14.28%
Suffolk - 2 - -
Cambridgeshire -17 1 £42,500 -19.04%
Hardware Engineer
England

Hardware Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 32 (65.31%) Degree
2 22 (44.90%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 20 (40.82%) EMC
4 14 (28.57%) Electronics
4 14 (28.57%) Manufacturing
5 13 (26.53%) MS Excel
6 12 (24.49%) Linux
7 10 (20.41%) CAD
7 10 (20.41%) Validation
7 10 (20.41%) Statistical Analysis
8 9 (18.37%) JTAG
9 8 (16.33%) Verilog
9 8 (16.33%) MS Office
10 7 (14.29%) UNIX
10 7 (14.29%) Windows
10 7 (14.29%) VHDL
11 6 (12.24%) C++
12 5 (10.20%) Java
12 5 (10.20%) OO
12 5 (10.20%) NFS
12 5 (10.20%) TCP/IP
12 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
12 5 (10.20%) IPv6
12 5 (10.20%) Risk Management
12 5 (10.20%) Project Planning
12 5 (10.20%) VLAN
12 5 (10.20%) Agile Software Development
12 5 (10.20%) QA
12 5 (10.20%) Integration Testing
12 5 (10.20%) Test Scripting

Hardware Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 (2.041%) FIX Protocol
Applications
1 13 (26.53%) MS Excel
2 8 (16.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) TCP/IP
1 5 (10.20%) IPv6
1 5 (10.20%) VLAN
2 4 (8.163%) Wireless
3 3 (6.122%) Bluetooth
3 3 (6.122%) Broadband
3 3 (6.122%) DVB
3 3 (6.122%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (4.082%) VoIP
General
1 14 (28.57%) Electronics
1 14 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 1 (2.041%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 22 (44.90%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 8 (16.33%) Verilog
3 7 (14.29%) VHDL
4 5 (10.20%) CAN bus
5 4 (8.163%) ASIC
6 1 (2.041%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.49%) Linux
2 7 (14.29%) UNIX
2 7 (14.29%) Windows
3 2 (4.082%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (4.082%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.41%) Validation
1 10 (20.41%) CAD
1 10 (20.41%) Statistical Analysis
2 5 (10.20%) Risk Management
2 5 (10.20%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (10.20%) Project Planning
2 5 (10.20%) Integration Testing
2 5 (10.20%) Test Scripting
2 5 (10.20%) System Testing
2 5 (10.20%) OO
3 2 (4.082%) Asset Management
4 1 (2.041%) Supplier Management
4 1 (2.041%) Electronic Design Automation
4 1 (2.041%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.24%) C++
2 5 (10.20%) Java
3 4 (8.163%) C
4 1 (2.041%) Perl
4 1 (2.041%) Tcl
4 1 (2.041%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 32 (65.31%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.37%) JTAG
2 5 (10.20%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) NFS
Vendors
1 20 (40.82%) EMC
2 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.041%) Toshiba
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
Brentwood, Essex, South East England
You will be responsible for Hardware design and measurement including Core CPU design and layout, video, audio, RF, power, etc; as well as working through all the usual...
British Sky Broadcasting
Salary: Bonus & bens
Posted: 18 May 2013
Felixstowe, Suffolk
My client is urgently looking for a Electronics Hardware Design Engineer. Duties: Design Simulate and test a variety of hardware circuits, produce circuit schematics and supervise PCB layout...
Real Time Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 30,000
Posted: 13 May 2013
Brentwood, South East
You will be accountable for hardware solutions at consultant level having extensive knowledge of DVB-S/C/T frontends, LNB's, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and antenna design; as...
British Sky Broadcasting
Salary: Bonus & bens
Posted: 18 May 2013
Brentwood, South East
You will be accountable for hardware solutions at consultant level having extensive knowledge of DVB-S/C/T frontends, LNB's, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and antenna design; as...
British Sky Broadcasting
Salary: Bonus & bens
Posted: 18 May 2013
Brentwood, Essex
You will be accountable for hardware solutions at consultant level having extensive knowledge of DVB-S/C/T frontends, LNB's, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and antenna design; as...
Sky
Salary: Bonus & bens
Posted: 14 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
Bedfordshire, South East
Minimum 5 years electronic hardware design experience Ability to translate user requirements into hardware specifications and component level designs Analogue circuit development for high precision signal amplification and...
Real Staffing
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013