Hardware Engineer Jobs in Portsmouth

Hardware Engineer
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The median Hardware Engineer salary in Portsmouth is £41,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 48 51
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Hardware Engineer 2 6 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 0.56% 1.19% 2.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 1.27% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 4
10th Percentile - - £21,300
25th Percentile £40,250 £37,500 £24,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £40,000 £26,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% +53.85% +33.33%
75th Percentile £42,750 £44,375 £33,875
90th Percentile - £57,500 £47,150
Hampshire median annual salary £41,500 £40,000 £29,000
% change year-on-year +3.75% +37.93% +48.72%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Portsmouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Portsmouth. 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 Portsmouth with a recognized job title 346 474 407
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.74% 93.68% 92.08%
Number of salaries quoted 172 407 302
10th Percentile £33,000 £24,500 £28,525
25th Percentile £47,683 £35,375 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
Hampshire median annual salary £53,250 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +6.50% -3.85% -0.95%

Hardware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Hardware Engineer in Portsmouth

Hardware Engineer
Salary Trend in Portsmouth

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

Salary trend for Hardware Engineer in Portsmouth

Hardware Engineer Skill Set
Top 10 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth

For the 6 months to 7 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 Portsmouth region featuring Hardware Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) Firmware
1 2 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (100.00%) Ticket Management
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service

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

Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (100.00%) Ticket Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle