Hardware-in-the-Loop Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Hardware-in-the-Loop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Hardware-in-the-Loop 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - - £70
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £92.50 - -
South East median hourly rate £92.50 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Hardware-in-the-Loop falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,529 1,103 1,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.51% 90.41% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 696 753
10th Percentile £350 £318 £325
25th Percentile £447 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £650 £689
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 48 61
10th Percentile £16.38 £14.75 £19.30
25th Percentile £35.17 £17.45 £41.25
Median hourly rate £80.55 £37.28 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +116.07% -36.26% -5.34%
75th Percentile £91.31 £64.06 £63.41
90th Percentile £104.00 £82.18 £75.24
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £21.02 £58.49
% change year-on-year +125.98% -64.06% +7.58%

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hardware-in-the-Loop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Hardware-in-the-Loop job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hardware-in-the-Loop within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 October 2026. 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
Reading - 2 - - 2
Hardware-in-the-Loop
South East

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ArchiMate
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Twin
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
2 1 (50.00%) Synthetic Environment
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Workload Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Chartered Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft