Hardware Design Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Hardware Design Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Hardware Design Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 570 644
Rank change year-on-year +176 +74 +207
Permanent jobs requiring a Hardware Design Engineer 3 22 29
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.065% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.068% 0.071%
Number of salaries quoted 3 22 2
10th Percentile £41,750 - -
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.04% +8.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £56,000
90th Percentile £69,250 £66,250 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% +2.44%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Hardware Design Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Hardware Design Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Hardware Design Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Hardware Design Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Hardware Design Engineer.

Hardware Design Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Hardware Design Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Hardware Design Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hardware Design Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Hardware Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Hardware Design 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Hardware Design Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (66.67%) C
1 2 (66.67%) Firmware
1 2 (66.67%) Analogue Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (33.33%) NB-IoT
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) VHDL
2 1 (33.33%) FPGA
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Life Science
2 1 (33.33%) Home Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) IoT
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Schematic Capture

Hardware Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LoRaWAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Analogue Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (33.33%) FPGA
2 1 (33.33%) Home Automation
2 1 (33.33%) IoT
2 1 (33.33%) Life Science
2 1 (33.33%) NB-IoT
2 1 (33.33%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Schematic Capture
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Firmware
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Firmware
13 Hardware Design Engineer jobs Nationwide