Hardware Engineer Contract Job Trends in Stevenage

Hardware Engineer
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The median Hardware Engineer daily rate in Stevenage is £681, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Hardware Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 0.32% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £681 - £143

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Stevenage

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Stevenage. 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 Stevenage with a recognized job title 291 128 209
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 97.71% 95.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 21 37
10th Percentile £188 £275 £238
25th Percentile £400 £306 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £653 £538 £500
90th Percentile £700 £575 £596
Hertfordshire median daily rate £528 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +11.16% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 67 133
10th Percentile £42.55 £35.00 £38.12
25th Percentile £50.00 £60.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £95.00 £90.00
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -16.92% - +4.00%

Hardware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Hardware Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage.

Hardware Engineer job vacancy trend in Stevenage

Hardware Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Stevenage

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Hardware Engineer job vacancies in Stevenage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Hardware Engineer job vacancies in Stevenage

Hardware Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Stevenage

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Hardware Engineer job vacancies in Stevenage.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Hardware Engineer job vacancies in Stevenage

Hardware Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage

For the 6 months to 23 December 2025, Hardware Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Stevenage region featuring Hardware Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) NVIDIA
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
1 1 (100.00%) QEMU
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) VMS

Hardware Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Acoustics
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NVIDIA