Hardware Engineer Contracts in Surrey

Hardware Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Hardware Engineer daily rate in Surrey is £168, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 64
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs requiring a Hardware Engineer 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.01% - 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% - 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £168 - £500
75th Percentile £359 - -
90th Percentile £474 - -
South East median daily rate £168 £210 £438
% change year-on-year -20.00% -52.00% +191.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 285 545 646
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.64% 92.84% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 404 473
10th Percentile £188 £200 £199
25th Percentile £269 £367 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £543 £614 £600
90th Percentile £660 £692 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 56 38
10th Percentile £20.00 £12.38 £19.53
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.37 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% -36.97% +109.64%
75th Percentile £36.16 £57.63 £61.49
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £64.13
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Hardware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Hardware Engineer in Surrey

Hardware Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Hardware Engineer in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for Hardware Engineer in Surrey

Hardware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hardware Engineer in Surrey over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hardware Engineer in Surrey

Hardware Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Hardware Engineer in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for Hardware Engineer in Surrey

Hardware Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Guildford - 1 £550 - 2
Hardware Engineer
South East

Hardware Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Surrey region featuring Hardware Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) SLA
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) HP
1 2 (66.67%) Dell
1 2 (66.67%) QA
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Break/Fix
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux

Hardware Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Break/Fix
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dell
1 2 (66.67%) HP
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) VMware