Hardware-in-the-Loop Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 331 450
Rank change year-on-year +32 +119 +173
Contract jobs citing Hardware-in-the-Loop 5 20 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.051% 0.14% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.16% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £266 - -
25th Percentile £286 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 - -
75th Percentile £369 - -
90th Percentile £399 - -
UK median daily rate £413 £70 -
% change year-on-year +489.29% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 20 1
10th Percentile £47.20 - -
25th Percentile £50.50 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.00 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £65.80 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -27.27% -15.38% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,002 12,814 21,318
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.75% 87.05% 89.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,099 8,627 15,107
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +1.89%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 564 502
10th Percentile £13.20 £15.05 £17.60
25th Percentile £18.36 £23.75 £25.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £42.75 £52.32
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% -18.28% +30.79%
75th Percentile £65.13 £60.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £79.15
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Hardware-in-the-Loop as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Hardware-in-the-Loop trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Hardware-in-the-Loop.

Hardware-in-the-Loop daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Hardware-in-the-Loop over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Hardware-in-the-Loop daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Hardware-in-the-Loop.

Hardware-in-the-Loop hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Hardware-in-the-Loop over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Hardware-in-the-Loop hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Control Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) SCADA
2 1 (20.00%) FPGA
2 1 (20.00%) PCIe
2 1 (20.00%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Regression Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Memory Management
3 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA