Hardware-in-the-Loop Job Trends in the West Midlands

Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Hardware-in-the-Loop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 171 218
Rank change year-on-year -33 +47 -35
Permanent jobs citing Hardware-in-the-Loop 1 1 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.012% 0.030% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.035% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £53,750
25th Percentile £65,000 - £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +35.28%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £68,750 £45,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +52.78% -30.77% +35.28%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,614 2,879 5,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 68.78% 85.33% 79.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,215 1,837 3,702
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,822 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,189 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,387 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.99% +4.77% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hardware-in-the-Loop job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Hardware-in-the-Loop

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 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
Coventry - 1 £70,000 - 1
Hardware-in-the-Loop
England

Hardware-in-the-Loop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware