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

Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Hardware-in-the-Loop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Hardware-in-the-Loop 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.042% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £625 £419 £374
% change year-on-year +49.25% +12.12% -25.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,979 1,453 1,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 83.68% 91.38% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,042 796 978
10th Percentile £263 £263 £205
25th Percentile £375 £393 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £471 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +4.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £550
90th Percentile £674 £613 £671
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 104 47
10th Percentile £13.45 £16.69 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.87 £14.07
Median hourly rate £16.86 £19.97 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% +1.94% +2.14%
75th Percentile £35.80 £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile £63.00 £44.06 £43.12
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +58.05% -40.82% -1.16%

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

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

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

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

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 September 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
Edinburgh - 1 - - 3
Hardware-in-the-Loop
UK

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Verification Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Vitest
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Safety