Hardware Engineer Jobs in England

Hardware Engineer
UK > England

The median Hardware Engineer salary in England is £48,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 2025.

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

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 645 481 732
Rank change year-on-year -164 +251 +274
Permanent jobs requiring a Hardware Engineer 46 393 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.094% 0.46% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.49% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 35 291 46
10th Percentile £34,750 £25,250 £23,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £25,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.00% +37.93%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £59,750 £70,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £48,000 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +25.00% +32.62%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 44,402 81,024 81,740
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.51% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,215 60,436 51,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Hardware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Hardware Engineer in England

Hardware Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Hardware Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Hardware Engineer in England

Hardware Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hardware Engineer in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Hardware Engineer in England

Hardware Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hardware Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -6 24 £48,000 +19.25% 83
Midlands +12 9 £42,500 -26.09% 25
East Midlands +34 6 £38,750 -22.50% 9
North of England +4 6 £37,500 +63.04% 29
East of England -39 4 £55,000 - 69
South West +70 3 £52,000 +9.47% 24
Yorkshire +67 3 - - 11
West Midlands +6 3 £42,500 -27.66% 15
North West -53 3 £37,500 +65.56% 16
Hardware Engineer
UK

Hardware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Hardware Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the England region featuring Hardware Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (43.48%) Degree
2 19 (41.30%) Electronics
3 18 (39.13%) Firmware
4 15 (32.61%) Analogue Electronics
5 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
6 12 (26.09%) C
7 10 (21.74%) C++
7 10 (21.74%) Validation
7 10 (21.74%) FPGA
8 9 (19.57%) VHDL
8 9 (19.57%) Manufacturing
8 9 (19.57%) EMC
9 8 (17.39%) Coaching
10 7 (15.22%) People Management
10 7 (15.22%) Embedded Systems
10 7 (15.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (15.22%) Mentor Graphics
10 7 (15.22%) HND
10 7 (15.22%) MATLAB
10 7 (15.22%) Simulink
11 6 (13.04%) Schematic Capture
11 6 (13.04%) Prototyping
12 5 (10.87%) Architectural Design
12 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (10.87%) Design for Manufacturing
12 5 (10.87%) Design for Test
12 5 (10.87%) IoT
12 5 (10.87%) Life Science
12 5 (10.87%) Wireless
12 5 (10.87%) C#

Hardware Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (15.22%) Simulink
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.17%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) Wireless
2 4 (8.70%) 2G
2 4 (8.70%) 3G
2 4 (8.70%) 4G
2 4 (8.70%) 5G
3 3 (6.52%) SAN
4 2 (4.35%) Ethernet
4 2 (4.35%) PuTTY
4 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.35%) VSAN
5 1 (2.17%) Firewall
5 1 (2.17%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (2.17%) Modbus
5 1 (2.17%) Profibus
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Eclipse
General
1 19 (41.30%) Electronics
2 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.57%) Manufacturing
4 4 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.35%) Aerospace
6 2 (4.35%) Automotive
6 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Finance
7 1 (2.17%) Legal
7 1 (2.17%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 15 (32.61%) Analogue Electronics
2 10 (21.74%) FPGA
3 9 (19.57%) VHDL
4 7 (15.22%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (10.87%) IoT
5 5 (10.87%) Life Science
6 4 (8.70%) Driving Licence
7 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
7 3 (6.52%) Verilog
8 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
8 2 (4.35%) ASIC
8 2 (4.35%) LPAR
8 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
8 2 (4.35%) Operational Technology
8 2 (4.35%) Replication
9 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (2.17%) Device Driver
9 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
9 1 (2.17%) NB-IoT
9 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
1 1 (2.17%) Mac OS
1 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (21.74%) Validation
2 8 (17.39%) Coaching
3 7 (15.22%) People Management
4 6 (13.04%) Prototyping
4 6 (13.04%) Schematic Capture
5 5 (10.87%) Architectural Design
5 5 (10.87%) Design for Manufacturing
5 5 (10.87%) Design for Test
5 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (8.70%) CAD
6 4 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (8.70%) Customer Service
6 4 (8.70%) Time Management
7 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (6.52%) Digital Signal Processing
7 3 (6.52%) Migration
7 3 (6.52%) Project Management
7 3 (6.52%) Signal Processing
7 3 (6.52%) Verification and Validation
8 2 (4.35%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) C
2 10 (21.74%) C++
3 7 (15.22%) MATLAB
4 5 (10.87%) C#
4 5 (10.87%) Embedded C++
5 4 (8.70%) Java
5 4 (8.70%) Python
6 1 (2.17%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 20 (43.48%) Degree
2 7 (15.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (15.22%) HND
3 4 (8.70%) Master's Degree
3 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.17%) CCNA
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) MCSE
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (39.13%) Firmware
2 3 (6.52%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (6.52%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) EMC
2 7 (15.22%) Mentor Graphics
3 4 (8.70%) Cadence
3 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.52%) Dell
4 3 (6.52%) IBM
5 2 (4.35%) Apple
5 2 (4.35%) Cisco
5 2 (4.35%) HP
5 2 (4.35%) Oracle
6 1 (2.17%) SAP