Hardware-in-the-Loop Contracts in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 108 134 154
Rank change year-on-year +26 +20 +12
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Hardware-in-the-Loop 4 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.21% 0.14% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.17% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £419 £374 -
% change year-on-year +12.12% - -
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.82% -15.38% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,735 2,307 2,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.85% 83.20% 87.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,013 1,473 2,060
10th Percentile £213 £264 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
75th Percentile £615 £634 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 255 251
10th Percentile £14.98 £13.86 £19.00
25th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 £42.55
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £64.15
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +5.23% +18.79%
75th Percentile £64.06 £72.50 £75.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £76.50 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £40.85
% change year-on-year -40.82% +4.05% +51.39%

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Hardware-in-the-Loop in the South West

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Hardware-in-the-Loop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Hardware-in-the-Loop

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Hardware-in-the-Loop
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 21 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +1 4 £425 - 4
Hardware-in-the-Loop
England

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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