Hardware-in-the-Loop Contracts in Bristol

Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Hardware-in-the-Loop skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hardware-in-the-Loop over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 69 81
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 +13
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Hardware-in-the-Loop 4 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.57% 0.43% 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.52% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £425 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 643 770 929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.99% 82.26% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 427 644
10th Percentile £235 £263 £308
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £645
90th Percentile £650 £715 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 163 117
10th Percentile £12.82 £44.00 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.69 £63.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate £30.25 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.79% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.50 £74.22 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £79.60 £84.79
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £64.15
% change year-on-year -62.74% +5.23% +18.79%

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

Job postings citing Hardware-in-the-Loop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Hardware-in-the-Loop in Bristol

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Hardware-in-the-Loop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Hardware-in-the-Loop

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Simulink
1 3 (75.00%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Rational DOORS
1 3 (75.00%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 4 (100.00%) Aerospace
2 3 (75.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Software Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (75.00%) Requirements Management
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Ada
1 3 (75.00%) C
1 3 (75.00%) Fortran
1 3 (75.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) MathWorks
1 3 (75.00%) Twitter