Hardware-in-the-Loop Job Trends in South Wales

Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Hardware-in-the-Loop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Hardware-in-the-Loop 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median annual salary £55,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 593 441 773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 72.32% 88.55% 85.60%
Number of salaries quoted 373 211 624
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,575
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +1.50%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £72,433
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hardware-in-the-Loop within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 25 February 2026. 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
Newport - 1 £55,000 -
Hardware-in-the-Loop
Wales

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CANalyzer
1 1 (100.00%) Simulink
General
1 1 (100.00%) Agriculture
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Control Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CAN bus
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) MATLAB