Hardware Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Hardware Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Hardware Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 504 622
Rank change year-on-year +107 +118 +199
Permanent jobs requiring a Hardware Engineer 16 85 49
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.25% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.26% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 10 74 10
10th Percentile £34,750 £37,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £41,875 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,750
Median % change year-on-year - -1.48% +43.85%
75th Percentile £55,938 £65,000 £56,000
90th Percentile £59,125 - £77,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +48.03%

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 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Hardware Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Hardware Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Hardware Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Hardware Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Hardware Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hardware Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Hardware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Hardware Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (75.00%) C
1 12 (75.00%) Firmware
2 10 (62.50%) C++
3 8 (50.00%) VHDL
3 8 (50.00%) FPGA
3 8 (50.00%) Prototyping
4 7 (43.75%) Analogue Electronics
4 7 (43.75%) Degree
5 6 (37.50%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (37.50%) Schematic Capture
5 6 (37.50%) Architectural Design
5 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
5 6 (37.50%) Life Science
5 6 (37.50%) Electronics
5 6 (37.50%) Python
6 5 (31.25%) Eclipse
6 5 (31.25%) Java
6 5 (31.25%) .NET
6 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (31.25%) CAD
6 5 (31.25%) C#
6 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
6 5 (31.25%) Cadence
6 5 (31.25%) Time Management
6 5 (31.25%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (31.25%) Accessibility
6 5 (31.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (31.25%) EMC
6 5 (31.25%) GitHub
7 4 (25.00%) Embedded C++

Hardware 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:

Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Blender
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) 5G
1 1 (6.25%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Eclipse
General
1 6 (37.50%) Electronics
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (31.25%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) FPGA
1 8 (50.00%) VHDL
2 7 (43.75%) Analogue Electronics
3 6 (37.50%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (37.50%) Life Science
4 2 (12.50%) ASIC
4 2 (12.50%) Verilog
5 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 1 (6.25%) GNSS
5 1 (6.25%) Home Automation
5 1 (6.25%) IoT
5 1 (6.25%) NB-IoT
5 1 (6.25%) Self-Driving Car
5 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 6 (37.50%) Architectural Design
2 6 (37.50%) Schematic Capture
3 5 (31.25%) CAD
3 5 (31.25%) Time Management
4 3 (18.75%) Validation
5 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (12.50%) Digital Signal Processing
5 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) SDLC
5 2 (12.50%) Signal Processing
6 1 (6.25%) B2B
6 1 (6.25%) Clean Code
6 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis
6 1 (6.25%) Embedded Software Development
6 1 (6.25%) Inertial Navigation
6 1 (6.25%) Mathematical Modelling
6 1 (6.25%) Mathematics
6 1 (6.25%) Physics
6 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) C
2 10 (62.50%) C++
3 6 (37.50%) Python
4 5 (31.25%) C#
4 5 (31.25%) Java
5 4 (25.00%) Embedded C++
6 1 (6.25%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) Firmware
2 1 (6.25%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Cadence
1 5 (31.25%) EMC
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft