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Industry group overview
Fractional work across Hardware
Explore the industries within Hardware, the professionals with relevant experience, and the roles companies hire for. Group totals count each job and professional once across member industries.
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Jobs published · past year
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Hiring companies
$184/hr
Average benchmark · 90 days
1005
Professionals with industry experience
A dash means there is not enough data to publish a benchmark.
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Consumer Electronics
Most popular roles
CTO · CPO · Director of Operations
673 with industry experienceElectronics
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CTO · CEO · CPO
300 with industry experienceComputer
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CRO · CPO
68 with industry experienceNetwork Hardware
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Role insights developing
22 with industry experienceHardware
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Role insights developing
15 with industry experienceFlash Storage
Most popular roles
Role insights developing
11 with industry experience
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Public profiles with experience at companies in this industry group. Experience does not establish current availability.
Bill BChief Product Officer & AI Transformation Leader · Strategy and hands-on delivery · Scaled Statista product org 15→175 · Shipping enterprise AI @ Blockbrain · HamburgStatista, VERSO, BlockbrainFractional CPO with 25+ years in product, AI, and SaaS. Scaled teams at Statista. Expert in product strategy and organizational growth.
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Claire DAward winning leader, Strategic Business Partner, Executive Coach, Female Leadership Coach, Business Coach, NED, Fractional Sales Leader, passionate about empowering women achieve long term success in business.HP, HP, PolyStrategic growth expert and executive coach specializing in empowering women leaders & fractional talent.
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Popular roles in Hardware
Ranked by professionals with industry experience, not hiring demand. Activity covers the past year.
| Role | Professionals | Avg. rate · 90d | Rate details |
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| Advisor general rates | 375 | $198/hr | |
| CTO general rates | 90 | $206/hr | |
| CPO general rates | 69 | $197/hr | |
| CEO general rates | 55 | $190/hr | |
| CRO general rates | 55 | $207/hr | |
| Director of Operations general rates | 51 | $183/hr |
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How we measure this industry group
This group combines 13 industry classifications. Each job and profile is counted once within the group, even when associated with multiple member industries. Rates are calculated from the combined observations and independently meet the same publication thresholds. Group totals cannot be calculated by adding individual industry counts.
Activity window · 2025-09-26 to 2026-09-26 · refreshed hourly. Public and platform job postings and aggregated talent profiles are evaluated as separate sources. Talent aggregates include public and non-public profiles; individual profile cards only show public profiles. Rate benchmarks always use jobs published and profiles active in the last 90 days.
Industry and company size come from accepted company tags linked to matched Crustdata identities. 1,177 of 2,076 period job records have a qualifying industry classification. Unclassified records remain unknown. Industry and role groups overlap; their totals must not be added together.
Demand counts require at least 10 jobs across 5 companies. Talent counts require 10 distinct professionals active in the selected activity window. Roles are ranked separately by jobs and professionals with industry experience. Hire links can also appear with 3 relevant public profiles and authored hiring guidance. Each rate source requires at least 10 observed samples; employer-side prices also require 5 companies and no employer contributing more than 40% of samples. Percentile ranges require 20 samples. Estimated job prices are excluded. Averages are a weighted blend of our live benchmarks and are only published when an employer offer or talent asking rate independently qualifies.
Company-size comparisons use current tags for activity in the period, not historical size or funding stage. Profile rates describe professionals with industry experience, not rates charged to specific past employers. These platform observations are not a census of the fractional market.
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