Hardware Engineer
UK
The median Hardware Engineer salary in the UK is £32,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 December 2023.
The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.
| 6 months to 7 Dec 2023 |
Same period 2022 | Same period 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 628 | 903 | 890 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +275 | -13 | -173 |
| Permanent jobs requiring a Hardware Engineer | 102 | 169 | 191 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK | 0.19% | 0.14% | 0.15% |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.20% | 0.14% | 0.16% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 73 | 74 | 102 |
| 10th Percentile | £26,250 | £22,750 | £22,000 |
| 25th Percentile | £27,500 | £25,000 | £26,250 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £32,500 | £41,250 | £35,280 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -21.21% | +16.92% | -21.60% |
| 75th Percentile | £57,500 | £56,000 | £46,455 |
| 90th Percentile | £61,250 | £65,000 | £71,125 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £33,750 | £37,500 | £35,280 |
| % change year-on-year | -10.00% | +6.29% | -18.90% |
All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK
The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title | 50,561 | 117,203 | 121,950 |
| % of permanent jobs with a recognized job title | 95.43% | 95.41% | 95.16% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 36,942 | 73,752 | 84,378 |
| 10th Percentile | £31,250 | £32,798 | £32,125 |
| 25th Percentile | £42,500 | £45,000 | £42,500 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £60,000 | £60,000 | £57,500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | +4.35% | +4.55% |
| 75th Percentile | £80,000 | £81,250 | £77,500 |
| 90th Percentile | £97,500 | £98,750 | £95,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary | £52,500 | £52,500 | £50,000 |
| % change year-on-year | - | +5.00% | +5.26% |
Hardware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings that featured Hardware Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Hardware Engineer
Salary Trend
3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Hardware Engineer.
Hardware Engineer
Salary Histogram
Salary distribution for jobs citing Hardware Engineer over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.
Hardware Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations
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 over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England | +280 | 101 | £31,250 | -16.67% | 91 |
| UK excluding London | +190 | 95 | £33,750 | -10.00% | 90 |
| Work from Home | +203 | 34 | £55,000 | +5.77% | 34 |
| Midlands | +135 | 25 | £27,500 | -41.49% | 14 |
| North of England | +164 | 24 | £46,250 | +85.00% | 12 |
| East of England | +91 | 24 | £32,500 | +32.65% | 11 |
| East Midlands | +64 | 19 | £27,500 | -21.43% | 2 |
| South East | +114 | 17 | £52,500 | +5.00% | 29 |
| North East | - | 15 | £45,000 | - | 2 |
| London | +274 | 7 | £28,000 | -20.00% | 12 |
| North West | +123 | 7 | £47,500 | +90.00% | 6 |
| West Midlands | +119 | 6 | £43,000 | -8.51% | 12 |
| South West | +73 | 4 | £42,000 | +15.86% | 11 |
| Yorkshire | +104 | 2 | £29,000 | +17.17% | 4 |
| Scotland | +30 | 1 | £52,500 | +32.08% | 12 |
Hardware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities
For the 6 months to 7 December 2023, 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 featuring Hardware Engineer in the job title.
|
|
Hardware Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||