Hardware Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Hardware Engineer
England > North of England

The median Hardware Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 213 227
Rank change year-on-year +43 +14 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Hardware Engineer 10 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.21% 0.085% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.090% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £154 £166 £126
25th Percentile £160 £168 £128
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £185 £138
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +34.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £430 £213 £156
90th Percentile - £220 £164
England median daily rate £210 £250 £160
% change year-on-year -16.00% +56.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £44.67 £13.25
25th Percentile - £47.47 £14.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.13 £16.16
Median % change year-on-year +15.10% +222.54% -61.97%
75th Percentile - - £17.16
90th Percentile - - £29.39
England median hourly rate £60.00 £46.11 £16.83
% change year-on-year +30.14% +174.03% -57.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 4,414 5,565 7,029
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.02% 95.14% 96.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,794 3,933 5,191
10th Percentile £263 £275 £200
25th Percentile £381 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £578 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 173 301
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.16 £11.17
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.56 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.75 £30.54 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.33% +65.08% +3.35%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.40 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.75 £65.95 £50.78
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Hardware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Hardware Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Hardware Engineer in the North of England

Hardware Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hardware Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Hardware Engineer in the North of England

Hardware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hardware Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Hardware Engineer in the North of England

Hardware Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hardware Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Hardware Engineer in the North of England

Hardware Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hardware Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
Yorkshire +28 9 £200 +8.11%
North East - 1 - -
Hardware Engineer
England

Hardware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Hardware Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Hardware Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Microcode
2 4 (40.00%) IBM
2 4 (40.00%) zOS
2 4 (40.00%) JCL
2 4 (40.00%) Mainframe
2 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (40.00%) ISPF
2 4 (40.00%) LPAR
2 4 (40.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 4 (40.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 3 (30.00%) Break/Fix
3 3 (30.00%) DBS Check
3 3 (30.00%) CLIST
3 3 (30.00%) DWDM
3 3 (30.00%) REXX
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (20.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (20.00%) Android
4 2 (20.00%) Ticket Management
4 2 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Slack
5 1 (10.00%) Mentor Graphics
5 1 (10.00%) Electronics
5 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared

Hardware Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DWDM
2 2 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) LPAR
1 4 (40.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) zOS
2 2 (20.00%) Android
2 2 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (30.00%) Break/Fix
3 2 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) JCL
2 3 (30.00%) CLIST
2 3 (30.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 4 (40.00%) Microcode
1 4 (40.00%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Mentor Graphics