The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Hardware Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Hardware Engineer
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank756758583
Rank change year-on-year
Up+2Down-175
Matching permanent IT job ads119107171
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.099 %0.087 %0.179 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.104 %0.093 %0.192 %
Number of salaries quoted6696150
Average salary£32,500£37,500£38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33 %-1.31 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£21,600£22,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£47,500£43,500£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£32,500£37,500£38,000
% change year-on-year
-13.33 %-1.31 %
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
11420611553789084
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK94.71 %94.23 %93.30 %
Number of salaries quoted979339761273729
Average salary£42,500£42,500£42,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£75,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£38,000£37,500£36,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33 %+2.73 %

Hardware Engineer
Demand Trend

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

Hardware Engineer Demand Trend

Hardware Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Hardware Engineer Salary Trend

Hardware Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Hardware Engineer over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Hardware Engineer Salary Histogram

Hardware Engineer
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-2110£32,500-7.14 %
East of EnglandUp+2034£35,000+2.94 %
South EastDown-4034£30,000-14.28 %
CambridgeshireUp+316£52,500+75.00 %
South WestUp+115£43,750+16.66 %
West SussexUp+1512--
CrawleyUp+412--
HertfordshireUp+2611£37,500+36.36 %
East MidlandsUp+69£32,500+47.72 %
CambridgeUp+28£28,500-5.00 %
West MidlandsDown-148£32,500+51.16 %
BristolNew entry-8£45,000-
OxfordshireDown-37£25,332-40.39 %
LondonDown-236£29,000-17.14 %
ScotlandUp+45£37,000-7.50 %
North WestDown-135£38,000-1.29 %
EssexDown-145£18,500-50.66 %
BerkshireDown-245£45,000+36.36 %
EdinburghUp+94£37,000-7.50 %
GloucestershireDown-104£50,000+33.33 %
WorcestershireDown-114£36,250-9.37 %
NottinghamshireNew entry-4£28,250-
LancashireDown-103£38,000-10.58 %
ReadingDown-113£45,000+32.35 %
CheltenhamDown-173--
GloucesterNew entry-3--
TewkesburyNew entry-3--
WarwickNew entry-3£25,000-
WarwickshireNew entry-3£25,000-
ManchesterDown-52--

Hardware Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1122 (47.84 %)Degree
2100 (39.22 %)Electronics
374 (29.02 %)Field-Programmable Gate Array
469 (27.06 %)C
547 (18.43 %)C++
640 (15.69 %)VHDL
738 (14.90 %)HP
834 (13.33 %)Manufacturing
932 (12.55 %)Firmware
932 (12.55 %)EMC
1031 (12.16 %)Windows
1130 (11.76 %)Embedded C
1227 (10.59 %)Ethernet
1323 (9.020 %)Microsoft
1323 (9.020 %)Linux
1323 (9.020 %)Verilog
1422 (8.627 %)Security Cleared
1520 (7.843 %)Avionics
1619 (7.451 %)Altera
1718 (7.059 %)Dell
1718 (7.059 %)Aerospace
1817 (6.667 %)MATLAB
1817 (6.667 %)UNIX
1817 (6.667 %)Digital Signal Processing
1817 (6.667 %)Signal Processing
1817 (6.667 %)Computer Science
1817 (6.667 %)Xilinx
1916 (6.275 %)SAN
2015 (5.882 %)MS Excel
2015 (5.882 %)C#

Hardware Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
14 (1.569 %)ASP
23 (1.176 %).NET
31 (0.392 %)Flash
31 (0.392 %)OpenGL
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
15 (1.961 %)MS Exchange
24 (1.569 %)Exchange Server 2007
33 (1.176 %)Exchange Server 2010
42 (0.784 %)Site Server
51 (0.392 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
51 (0.392 %)Exchange Server 2003
51 (0.392 %)SAS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
117 (6.667 %)MATLAB
215 (5.882 %)MS Excel
310 (3.922 %)MS Office
48 (3.137 %)Simulink
54 (1.569 %)AutoCAD
62 (0.784 %)MS PowerPoint
62 (0.784 %)MS Project
62 (0.784 %)MS Visio
71 (0.392 %)Stateflow
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (0.784 %)LabWindows
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
127 (10.59 %)Ethernet
216 (6.275 %)SAN
38 (3.137 %)3G
38 (3.137 %)LTE
38 (3.137 %)NAS
46 (2.353 %)RFID
46 (2.353 %)3GPP
55 (1.961 %)TCP/IP
55 (1.961 %)Wi-Fi
55 (1.961 %)Wireless
64 (1.569 %)GPRS
64 (1.569 %)GSM
73 (1.176 %)Internet
82 (0.784 %)LAN
82 (0.784 %)Broadband
82 (0.784 %)WiMAX
82 (0.784 %)Gigabit Ethernet
91 (0.392 %)NFC
91 (0.392 %)Firewall
91 (0.392 %)Modbus
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
15 (1.961 %)MySQL
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
112 (4.706 %)LabVIEW
24 (1.569 %)Subversion
33 (1.176 %)Visual Studio
42 (0.784 %)ClearCase
42 (0.784 %)Eclipse
42 (0.784 %)Team Foundation Server
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1100 (39.22 %)Electronics
234 (13.33 %)Manufacturing
320 (7.843 %)Avionics
418 (7.059 %)Aerospace
514 (5.490 %)Military
69 (3.529 %)Automotive
78 (3.137 %)Telecoms
84 (1.569 %)French Language
84 (1.569 %)German Language
84 (1.569 %)Italian Language
84 (1.569 %)Spanish Language
84 (1.569 %)Turkish Language
93 (1.176 %)Finance
101 (0.392 %)Legal
101 (0.392 %)Marketing
101 (0.392 %)Games
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
174 (29.02 %)Field-Programmable Gate Array
240 (15.69 %)VHDL
332 (12.55 %)Firmware
423 (9.020 %)Verilog
517 (6.667 %)Computer Science
614 (5.490 %)Mathematics
711 (4.314 %)Physics
87 (2.745 %)Animation
87 (2.745 %)iDTV
87 (2.745 %)BBC
96 (2.353 %)Embedded Systems
105 (1.961 %)Blackberry
114 (1.569 %)Device Driver
123 (1.176 %)ASIC
123 (1.176 %)CAN bus
123 (1.176 %)SystemC
123 (1.176 %)SCADA
132 (0.784 %)RIA
132 (0.784 %)Video Conferencing
132 (0.784 %)HP StorageWorks
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
131 (12.16 %)Windows
223 (9.020 %)Linux
317 (6.667 %)UNIX
44 (1.569 %)Windows Server 2003
44 (1.569 %)Windows Server 2008
52 (0.784 %)Windows XP
52 (0.784 %)AIX
61 (0.392 %)Windows 2000
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
117 (6.667 %)Digital Signal Processing
117 (6.667 %)Signal Processing
214 (5.490 %)Software Engineering
312 (4.706 %)Test Strategy
411 (4.314 %)Video Processing
59 (3.529 %)Time Management
68 (3.137 %)CAE
77 (2.745 %)Validation
86 (2.353 %)Project Management
86 (2.353 %)TDD
95 (1.961 %)Test Automation
104 (1.569 %)Image Processing
104 (1.569 %)Disaster Recovery
104 (1.569 %)ITIL
104 (1.569 %)Business Intelligence
104 (1.569 %)Embedded Software Development
104 (1.569 %)CAD
113 (1.176 %)Multithreading
113 (1.176 %)Requirements Management
122 (0.784 %)Industrial Design
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
169 (27.06 %)C
247 (18.43 %)C++
330 (11.76 %)Embedded C
415 (5.882 %)C#
514 (5.490 %)VB
68 (3.137 %)Embedded C++
77 (2.745 %)Python
84 (1.569 %)Perl
92 (0.784 %)Java
92 (0.784 %)Assembly Language
101 (0.392 %)Tcl
101 (0.392 %)PHP
101 (0.392 %)SQL
101 (0.392 %)VBScript
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1122 (47.84 %)Degree
222 (8.627 %)Security Cleared
37 (2.745 %)HNC
46 (2.353 %)PhD
46 (2.353 %)A+ Certification
55 (1.961 %)HND
55 (1.961 %)SC Cleared
55 (1.961 %)HP APS
64 (1.569 %)Microsoft Certification
64 (1.569 %)RHCE
73 (1.176 %)CCNA
73 (1.176 %)Cisco Certification
73 (1.176 %)MCTS
73 (1.176 %)DCSE
82 (0.784 %)MCP
82 (0.784 %)MCSE
91 (0.392 %)MCDST
91 (0.392 %)DV Cleared
91 (0.392 %)HP ASE
91 (0.392 %)HP MASE
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
113 (5.098 %)ISO 9001
28 (3.137 %)ISO 9000
28 (3.137 %)TickIT
35 (1.961 %)SLA
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (1.569 %)VMware Infrastructure
14 (1.569 %)Hyper-V
23 (1.176 %)XenApp
31 (0.392 %)Terminal Services
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
14 (1.569 %)Nagios
14 (1.569 %)Cacti
14 (1.569 %)Ganglia
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
138 (14.90 %)HP
232 (12.55 %)EMC
323 (9.020 %)Microsoft
419 (7.451 %)Altera
518 (7.059 %)Dell
617 (6.667 %)Xilinx
713 (5.098 %)IBM
812 (4.706 %)TOWER Software
812 (4.706 %)VMware
910 (3.922 %)Intel
109 (3.529 %)Sun
109 (3.529 %)Cisco
117 (2.745 %)Agilent
126 (2.353 %)Fujitsu
126 (2.353 %)Cadence
135 (1.961 %)Mentor Graphics
135 (1.961 %)Oracle
135 (1.961 %)NetApp
144 (1.569 %)Compaq
144 (1.569 %)Veritas