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

Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Hardware-in-the-Loop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Hardware-in-the-Loop 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.12% - 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,412 824 1,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 84.10% 89.96% 87.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 575 914
10th Percentile £305 £300 £313
25th Percentile £384 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £678 £694
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 32 75
10th Percentile £21.00 £15.92 £12.44
25th Percentile £35.75 £23.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.92% +25.00% -30.29%
75th Percentile £77.50 £65.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.25 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £51.00 £32.25 £21.56
% change year-on-year +58.14% +49.62% -38.41%

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

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

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

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Management
1 2 (100.00%) Smoke Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy