Hardware Engineer Jobs in England

Hardware Engineer
UK > England

The median Hardware Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 April 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 597 494 742
Rank change year-on-year -103 +248 +242
Permanent jobs requiring a Hardware Engineer 59 374 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.44% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.47% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 43 280 57
10th Percentile £34,800 £22,398 £23,350
25th Percentile £45,875 £35,188 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.28% +44.54%
75th Percentile £60,625 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £76,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year - +13.64% +47.03%

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 41,542 80,123 85,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.07% 94.47% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 24,605 59,997 53,998
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,057 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,732
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -11.91% +1.22%
75th Percentile £76,000 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,507 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +13 36 £55,000 +37.50% 48
Midlands +27 7 £35,000 -39.13% 6
East of England -15 7 £55,000 - 28
North of England +36 6 £37,500 +65.56% 11
East Midlands +41 4 £30,000 -40.00% 2
Yorkshire +68 3 - - 5
South West +61 3 £52,000 +9.47% 12
West Midlands +1 3 £42,500 -29.17% 4
North West -15 3 £37,500 +65.56% 6
Hardware Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 23 (38.98%) Electronics
2 22 (37.29%) Degree
3 20 (33.90%) Firmware
4 16 (27.12%) Analogue Electronics
5 15 (25.42%) Social Skills
5 15 (25.42%) C
6 12 (20.34%) C++
6 12 (20.34%) EMC
6 12 (20.34%) FPGA
7 11 (18.64%) Validation
7 11 (18.64%) VHDL
8 10 (16.95%) Manufacturing
9 8 (13.56%) Life Science
9 8 (13.56%) Coaching
9 8 (13.56%) Schematic Capture
9 8 (13.56%) Prototyping
10 7 (11.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (11.86%) Architectural Design
10 7 (11.86%) People Management
10 7 (11.86%) Security Cleared
10 7 (11.86%) Mentor Graphics
10 7 (11.86%) MATLAB
10 7 (11.86%) Simulink
10 7 (11.86%) C#
10 7 (11.86%) HND
11 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Office
11 6 (10.17%) Java
11 6 (10.17%) .NET
11 6 (10.17%) Python
11 6 (10.17%) Microsoft

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 (11.86%) Simulink
2 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.69%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.47%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) Wireless
2 5 (8.47%) 2G
2 5 (8.47%) 3G
2 5 (8.47%) 4G
2 5 (8.47%) 5G
3 3 (5.08%) SAN
4 2 (3.39%) Ethernet
4 2 (3.39%) PuTTY
4 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.39%) VSAN
5 1 (1.69%) Firewall
5 1 (1.69%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (1.69%) Modbus
5 1 (1.69%) Profibus
Development Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Eclipse
General
1 23 (38.98%) Electronics
2 15 (25.42%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.95%) Manufacturing
4 6 (10.17%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.08%) Aerospace
6 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.39%) Automotive
7 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Finance
8 1 (1.69%) Legal
8 1 (1.69%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 16 (27.12%) Analogue Electronics
2 12 (20.34%) FPGA
3 11 (18.64%) VHDL
4 8 (13.56%) Life Science
5 6 (10.17%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (10.17%) IoT
6 4 (6.78%) Driving Licence
7 3 (5.08%) Data Centre
7 3 (5.08%) Verilog
8 2 (3.39%) Algorithms
8 2 (3.39%) ASIC
8 2 (3.39%) LPAR
8 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
8 2 (3.39%) Operational Technology
8 2 (3.39%) Replication
9 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.69%) Device Driver
9 1 (1.69%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.69%) NB-IoT
9 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Linux
1 1 (1.69%) Mac OS
1 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.64%) Validation
2 8 (13.56%) Coaching
2 8 (13.56%) Prototyping
2 8 (13.56%) Schematic Capture
3 7 (11.86%) Architectural Design
3 7 (11.86%) People Management
4 6 (10.17%) CAD
4 6 (10.17%) Design for Manufacturing
4 6 (10.17%) Design for Test
5 5 (8.47%) Time Management
6 4 (6.78%) Customer Service
7 3 (5.08%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (5.08%) Digital Signal Processing
7 3 (5.08%) Migration
7 3 (5.08%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (5.08%) Project Management
7 3 (5.08%) Signal Processing
7 3 (5.08%) Verification and Validation
8 2 (3.39%) Change Control
8 2 (3.39%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.42%) C
2 12 (20.34%) C++
3 7 (11.86%) C#
3 7 (11.86%) MATLAB
4 6 (10.17%) Java
4 6 (10.17%) Python
5 5 (8.47%) Embedded C++
6 1 (1.69%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 22 (37.29%) Degree
2 7 (11.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (11.86%) HND
2 7 (11.86%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.08%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.69%) CCNA
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) MCSE
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.39%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (33.90%) Firmware
2 3 (5.08%) PowerHA
3 1 (1.69%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) EMC
2 7 (11.86%) Mentor Graphics
3 6 (10.17%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.47%) Cadence
5 3 (5.08%) Dell
5 3 (5.08%) IBM
6 2 (3.39%) Apple
6 2 (3.39%) Cisco
6 2 (3.39%) HP
6 2 (3.39%) Oracle
7 1 (1.69%) SAP