Design Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Design Engineer
England > North of England

The median Design Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £405 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 - 244
Rank change year-on-year - - -58
Contract jobs requiring a Design Engineer 14 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% - 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% - 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £56 - £418
25th Percentile £205 - £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 - £481
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.38%
75th Percentile £523 - £536
90th Percentile £544 - £559
England median daily rate £575 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +15.00% +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £53.25 - -
25th Percentile £54.38 - £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £40.00
75th Percentile £59.38 - £42.50
90th Percentile £59.75 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +55.56% -5.26% +8.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,385 5,534 6,958
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.30% 96.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,750 3,909 5,115
10th Percentile £263 £281 £200
25th Percentile £385 £411 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £552
90th Percentile £675 £684 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 160 281
10th Percentile £11.02 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.76 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £31.63 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.76% +70.96% +3.73%
75th Percentile £45.97 £50.72 £28.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.07 £51.45
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Engineer in the North of England

Design Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Design Engineer in the North of England

Design Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Engineer in the North of England

Design Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Design Engineer in the North of England

Design Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
North West - 10 £210 - 52
Yorkshire - 3 £525 - 30
North East - 1 - - 5
Design Engineer
England

Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 North of England region featuring Design Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Revit
2 3 (21.43%) 3D Modelling
2 3 (21.43%) AutoCAD
2 3 (21.43%) CAE
2 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (21.43%) Strategic Planning
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
3 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 2 (14.29%) Network Design
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) Law
3 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Service Design
3 2 (14.29%) Design Thinking
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (14.29%) IaaS
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 2 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (7.14%) IEC 61508
4 1 (7.14%) Ribbon
4 1 (7.14%) Ansible

Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (21.43%) AutoCAD
1 3 (21.43%) Revit
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) IaaS
1 2 (14.29%) PaaS
1 2 (14.29%) SaaS
1 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DMZ
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) MPLS
1 1 (7.14%) PBX
1 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
1 1 (7.14%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (14.29%) Law
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Electronics
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Military
2 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) 3D Modelling
1 3 (21.43%) CAE
1 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (21.43%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (14.29%) Agile
2 2 (14.29%) Design Thinking
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL
2 2 (14.29%) Network Design
2 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 2 (14.29%) Service Design
2 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
2 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (7.14%) Defect Management
3 1 (7.14%) Information Assurance
3 1 (7.14%) Logistics
3 1 (7.14%) Presales
3 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (7.14%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Def Stans
1 1 (7.14%) IEC 61508
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Mentor Graphics
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Radianz
2 1 (7.14%) Ribbon