Hardware Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Hardware Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Hardware Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £48,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 525 407 552
Rank change year-on-year -118 +145 +181
Permanent jobs requiring a Hardware Engineer 50 406 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.57% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.60% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 34 301 37
10th Percentile £34,750 £22,750 £22,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,250 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +16.28% +48.28%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £60,125 £67,500 £76,250
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
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,759 67,300 52,885
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.85% 89.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18,598 47,582 30,032
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Hardware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Hardware Engineer in the UK excluding London

Hardware Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Hardware Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Hardware Engineer in the UK excluding London

Hardware Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hardware Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Hardware Engineer in the UK excluding London

Hardware Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hardware Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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 -3 23 £48,000 +19.25% 61
Midlands +10 9 £42,500 -26.09% 10
East Midlands +28 6 £38,750 -22.50% 4
North of England -1 6 £37,500 +63.04% 13
Scotland +103 5 - - 5
East of England -38 4 £55,000 - 59
South West +60 3 £52,000 +9.47% 16
West Midlands +7 3 £42,500 -27.66% 6
North West -47 3 £37,500 +65.56% 9
Yorkshire - 3 - - 4
Hardware Engineer
UK

Hardware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 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 UK excluding London region featuring Hardware Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (40.00%) Electronics
2 19 (38.00%) Degree
3 17 (34.00%) Firmware
4 15 (30.00%) Analogue Electronics
5 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
6 12 (24.00%) C
7 10 (20.00%) C++
7 10 (20.00%) Validation
7 10 (20.00%) FPGA
8 9 (18.00%) Manufacturing
8 9 (18.00%) VHDL
8 9 (18.00%) EMC
9 8 (16.00%) MATLAB
9 8 (16.00%) Coaching
10 7 (14.00%) People Management
10 7 (14.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (14.00%) Mentor Graphics
10 7 (14.00%) Simulink
10 7 (14.00%) HND
11 6 (12.00%) Schematic Capture
11 6 (12.00%) Embedded Systems
11 6 (12.00%) Prototyping
11 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (10.00%) Architectural Design
12 5 (10.00%) Design for Manufacturing
12 5 (10.00%) Design for Test
12 5 (10.00%) IoT
12 5 (10.00%) Life Science
12 5 (10.00%) C#
12 5 (10.00%) Wireless

Hardware Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (14.00%) Simulink
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.00%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.00%) Wireless
2 4 (8.00%) 2G
2 4 (8.00%) 3G
2 4 (8.00%) 4G
2 4 (8.00%) 5G
3 3 (6.00%) SAN
4 2 (4.00%) Ethernet
4 2 (4.00%) PuTTY
4 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.00%) VSAN
5 1 (2.00%) Firewall
5 1 (2.00%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (2.00%) Modbus
5 1 (2.00%) Profibus
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Eclipse
General
1 20 (40.00%) Electronics
2 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (18.00%) Manufacturing
4 4 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.00%) Aerospace
6 2 (4.00%) Automotive
6 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Finance
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.00%) Analogue Electronics
2 10 (20.00%) FPGA
3 9 (18.00%) VHDL
4 6 (12.00%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (10.00%) IoT
5 5 (10.00%) Life Science
6 4 (8.00%) Driving Licence
7 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
7 3 (6.00%) Verilog
8 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
8 2 (4.00%) ASIC
8 2 (4.00%) LPAR
8 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
8 2 (4.00%) Operational Technology
8 2 (4.00%) Replication
9 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (2.00%) Home Automation
9 1 (2.00%) NB-IoT
9 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (2.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Linux
1 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.00%) Validation
2 8 (16.00%) Coaching
3 7 (14.00%) People Management
4 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (12.00%) Prototyping
4 6 (12.00%) Schematic Capture
5 5 (10.00%) Architectural Design
5 5 (10.00%) Design for Manufacturing
5 5 (10.00%) Design for Test
6 4 (8.00%) CAD
6 4 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (8.00%) Customer Service
7 3 (6.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (6.00%) Digital Signal Processing
7 3 (6.00%) Migration
7 3 (6.00%) Project Management
7 3 (6.00%) Signal Processing
7 3 (6.00%) Time Management
7 3 (6.00%) Verification and Validation
8 2 (4.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.00%) C
2 10 (20.00%) C++
3 8 (16.00%) MATLAB
4 5 (10.00%) C#
5 4 (8.00%) Embedded C++
5 4 (8.00%) Java
5 4 (8.00%) Python
6 1 (2.00%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 19 (38.00%) Degree
2 7 (14.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (14.00%) HND
3 4 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.00%) CCNA
5 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) MCSE
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (34.00%) Firmware
2 3 (6.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (6.00%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) EMC
2 7 (14.00%) Mentor Graphics
3 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.00%) Cadence
4 3 (6.00%) Dell
4 3 (6.00%) IBM
5 2 (4.00%) Apple
5 2 (4.00%) Cisco
5 2 (4.00%) HP
5 2 (4.00%) Oracle
6 1 (2.00%) SAP