Hardware-in-the-Loop Job Trends

Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Hardware-in-the-Loop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 717 663 833
Rank change year-on-year -54 +170 -31
Permanent jobs citing Hardware-in-the-Loop 39 11 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.040% 0.023% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% 0.025% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 17 5 13
10th Percentile £52,500 £37,826 £52,500
25th Percentile £54,000 - £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £45,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -30.77% +35.28%
75th Percentile £78,750 - £67,500
90th Percentile - £52,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £45,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +47.22% -30.77% +35.28%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,161 44,144 84,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 90.58% 82.41%
Number of salaries quoted 49,802 24,628 59,539
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Hardware-in-the-Loop relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Hardware-in-the-Loop job vacancy trend in the UK

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hardware-in-the-Loop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hardware-in-the-Loop

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Hardware-in-the-Loop over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Hardware-in-the-Loop in the UK

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Top 11 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 9 July 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
UK excluding London -47 36 £66,250 +47.22% 19
England -37 34 £67,500 +50.00% 18
South West -51 11 £67,500 - 1
East of England - 9 £77,500 - 6
South East -30 8 £55,000 - 4
Midlands -29 6 £70,000 +55.56% 5
East Midlands -28 5 - - 3
Work from Home - 3 £61,250 - 9
West Midlands -23 1 £70,000 - 2
Scotland - 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £55,000 -

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (10.26%) Simulink
2 1 (2.56%) CANalyzer
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) Azure
1 15 (38.46%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (23.08%) Entra ID
2 9 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.69%) AWS
4 2 (5.13%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (5.13%) GitHub
4 2 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.56%) AWS IoT
5 1 (2.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.08%) Network Security
2 6 (15.38%) MQTT
3 5 (12.82%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (12.82%) Wireless
3 5 (12.82%) ZigBee
4 4 (10.26%) Bluetooth
5 1 (2.56%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (2.56%) Tactical Data Link
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) Git
1 10 (25.64%) Jenkins
1 10 (25.64%) JIRA
2 7 (17.95%) GitLab
3 5 (12.82%) GDB
4 4 (10.26%) Robot Framework
5 3 (7.69%) Polyspace
5 3 (7.69%) VectorCAST
6 1 (2.56%) LabVIEW
6 1 (2.56%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (35.90%) Automotive
2 8 (20.51%) Advertising
3 7 (17.95%) Aerospace
4 5 (12.82%) Electronics
5 4 (10.26%) Finance
6 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Agriculture
7 1 (2.56%) Avionics
7 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.56%) Military
7 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Retail
7 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
1 13 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) IT Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) IT Support
2 9 (23.08%) IT Support Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Server Engineer
2 9 (23.08%) Server Support
2 9 (23.08%) Support Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Systems Support
3 7 (17.95%) Systems Support Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Test Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Lead
4 6 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Senior
6 4 (10.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Architect
8 2 (5.13%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) pytest
2 6 (15.38%) Yocto
3 4 (10.26%) Unity DI Container
4 2 (5.13%) Middleware
5 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.56%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.56%) gRPC
5 1 (2.56%) Kafka
5 1 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (41.03%) Embedded Systems
2 10 (25.64%) Algorithms
3 6 (15.38%) IoT
4 5 (12.82%) ARM Cortex
4 5 (12.82%) Device Driver
5 3 (7.69%) Robotics
6 1 (2.56%) CAN bus
6 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (38.46%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) Validation
2 16 (41.03%) DevOps
3 14 (35.90%) Software Engineering
4 13 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 13 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 11 (28.21%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (28.21%) Edge Computing
6 10 (25.64%) Computer Science
7 9 (23.08%) Software Licensing
8 8 (20.51%) Software Delivery
9 7 (17.95%) BDD
10 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (12.82%) Scenario Testing
11 5 (12.82%) Verification and Validation
12 4 (10.26%) AI
12 4 (10.26%) Integration Testing
12 4 (10.26%) Software Architecture
12 4 (10.26%) Software Testing
12 4 (10.26%) Systems Engineering
12 4 (10.26%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 15 (38.46%) C
2 13 (33.33%) Python
3 9 (23.08%) C++
4 8 (20.51%) Bash
5 4 (10.26%) MATLAB
6 3 (7.69%) Embedded C
6 3 (7.69%) Embedded C++
7 1 (2.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) Degree
2 9 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (15.38%) Master's Degree
4 4 (10.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) ISO 26262
2 8 (20.51%) Automotive SPICE
3 6 (15.38%) MISRA
3 6 (15.38%) MISRA C
4 5 (12.82%) JTAG
5 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 4 (10.26%) QA
6 3 (7.69%) IEC 61508
7 2 (5.13%) Def Stans
8 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (28.21%) Docker
2 9 (23.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (12.82%) Firmware
4 2 (5.13%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Functional Safety
2 1 (2.56%) Ansible
2 1 (2.56%) Grafana
2 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) EMC
2 1 (2.56%) Google