Design Engineer Contracts in Cheshire

Design Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Design Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £405 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 61 57
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 -
Contract jobs requiring a Design Engineer 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.99% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £113 - -
25th Percentile £223 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile - £625 £575
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £210 £600 £481
% change year-on-year -65.00% +24.68% -6.10%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 472 481 492
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.65% 88.91% 94.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 330 278
10th Percentile £275 £262 £184
25th Percentile £380 £392 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £486 £438
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% +11.11% +0.34%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £629 £651 £631
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -1.40% +7.53% +9.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 21 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.00 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.47 £18.82 £16.49
Median hourly rate £20.11 £27.98 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +14.20% +36.87%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.00 £33.83
90th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £60.45
North West median hourly rate £26.53 £30.54 £20.49
% change year-on-year -13.15% +49.05% +12.41%

Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings that featured Design Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Design Engineer in Cheshire

Design Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Engineer in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Design Engineer in Cheshire

Design Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Engineer in Cheshire

Design Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Engineer in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Design Engineer in Cheshire

Design Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Design Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 1 - -
Warrington - 1 - - 7
Design Engineer
North West

Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Design Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Design Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) AutoCAD
1 3 (60.00%) CAE
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Revit
1 3 (60.00%) 3D Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) Strategic Planning
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Military
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery

Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (60.00%) AutoCAD
1 3 (60.00%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Military
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) 3D Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) CAE
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared