Design Engineer Contracts in the South East

Design Engineer
England > South East

The median Design Engineer daily rate in the South East is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 186 191 223
Rank change year-on-year +5 +32 -45
Contract jobs requiring a Design Engineer 18 32 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.32% 0.55% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.58% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 19
10th Percentile £453 £367 £380
25th Percentile £513 £412 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% - +11.94%
75th Percentile £788 £500 £547
90th Percentile £812 £566 £643
England median daily rate £588 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +20.51% +2.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 23 8
10th Percentile £58.00 - £41.38
25th Percentile £58.75 £42.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £66.25 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £68.50 £49.75 £59.52
England median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +55.56% -5.26% +18.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,161 5,536 7,502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.33% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,107 3,852 5,076
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £390 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £614 £603 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 243 339
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £16.18
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.08 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +128.95% -13.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.30 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.30
England median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%

Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Engineer in the South East

Design Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Engineer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Design Engineer in the South East

Design Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Engineer in the South East

Design Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Design Engineer in the South East

Design Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 23 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
Hampshire +11 11 £750 +66.67% 23
Thames Valley +8 6 £438 -12.45% 36
Berkshire -7 5 £438 +3.00% 10
Buckinghamshire +28 1 - - 15
Surrey -8 1 £525 - 15
Design Engineer
England

Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 23 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 South East region featuring Design Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) Risk Management
2 7 (38.89%) DV Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) C++
3 4 (22.22%) FPGA
3 4 (22.22%) FPGA Design
4 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (16.67%) Wideband
4 3 (16.67%) Xilinx
4 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (16.67%) Hazard Analysis
4 3 (16.67%) Algorithms
4 3 (16.67%) C
4 3 (16.67%) Embedded C
4 3 (16.67%) Embedded C++
5 2 (11.11%) HND
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (11.11%) Python
5 2 (11.11%) VHDL
5 2 (11.11%) Electronics
5 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
5 2 (11.11%) MPLS
5 2 (11.11%) BGP
5 2 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (11.11%) Chartered Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco
5 2 (11.11%) Network Design
6 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology

Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Wideband
2 2 (11.11%) BGP
2 2 (11.11%) MPLS
3 1 (5.56%) ADSL
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (5.56%) DNS
3 1 (5.56%) DSL
3 1 (5.56%) GSM
3 1 (5.56%) IOS XR
3 1 (5.56%) LAN
3 1 (5.56%) LTE
3 1 (5.56%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 2 (11.11%) Electronics
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) JSON
1 1 (5.56%) NETCONF
1 1 (5.56%) XML
1 1 (5.56%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) FPGA
2 3 (16.67%) Algorithms
3 2 (11.11%) VHDL
4 1 (5.56%) Analogue Electronics
4 1 (5.56%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (5.56%) GNSS
4 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.56%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Risk Management
2 4 (22.22%) FPGA Design
3 3 (16.67%) Hazard Analysis
3 3 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (11.11%) Network Design
5 1 (5.56%) Business Case
5 1 (5.56%) Business Strategy
5 1 (5.56%) Change Control
5 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.56%) Customer Experience
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (5.56%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.56%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (5.56%) Roadmaps
5 1 (5.56%) Service Migration
5 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) C++
2 3 (16.67%) C
2 3 (16.67%) Embedded C
2 3 (16.67%) Embedded C++
3 2 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) DV Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) Chartered Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (11.11%) HND
5 1 (5.56%) CCDP
5 1 (5.56%) CCIE
5 1 (5.56%) CCNP
5 1 (5.56%) Degree
5 1 (5.56%) JNCIE
5 1 (5.56%) JNCIS
5 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 15288
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Xilinx
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Juniper
3 1 (5.56%) Mentor Graphics
3 1 (5.56%) Nokia
3 1 (5.56%) Sparx