Senior Design Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Design Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Design Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 424 510
Rank change year-on-year +40 +86 -76
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Design Engineer 14 31 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.068% 0.13% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.14% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 4
10th Percentile £405 £112 £385
25th Percentile £486 £198 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £353 £479
Median % change year-on-year +63.12% -26.46% +13.32%
75th Percentile £925 £520 £567
90th Percentile - £613 £609
UK median daily rate £575 £613 £450
% change year-on-year -6.12% +36.11% +6.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 17 5
10th Percentile - - £40.25
25th Percentile - £42.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £45.00
75th Percentile - £47.50 £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - - +80.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,163 22,551 29,607
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.20% 95.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,700 15,818 20,751
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,248 1,160 1,483
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Senior Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Design Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Design Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Design Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Design Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Design Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Design Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Design Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Design Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Design Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 of England - 5 £465 - 17
East of England +7 4 £900 - 22
Scotland - 3 £575 - 10
North West - 3 £405 - 7
Yorkshire - 2 £525 - 10
South East +9 1 £388 - 28
West Midlands - 1 - - 3
Midlands - 1 - - 8
Senior Design Engineer
UK

Senior Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Senior 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Design Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Metadata
3 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) SQL Optimisation
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) 3D Modelling
3 3 (21.43%) Revit
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle Database
3 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (21.43%) Strategic Planning
3 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle
3 3 (21.43%) AutoCAD
3 3 (21.43%) CAE
4 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Law
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) SaaS
4 2 (14.29%) PaaS

Senior Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) IaaS
1 2 (14.29%) PaaS
1 2 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (7.14%) LAN
1 1 (7.14%) MPLS
1 1 (7.14%) PBX
1 1 (7.14%) VoIP
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
1 1 (7.14%) WAN
1 1 (7.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Metadata
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle APEX
General
1 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Law
3 1 (7.14%) Military
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) 3D Modelling
1 3 (21.43%) CAE
1 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
1 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Optimisation
1 3 (21.43%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (14.29%) Design Thinking
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL
2 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 2 (14.29%) Service Design
2 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (7.14%) Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Architectural Design
3 1 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.14%) Network Architecture
3 1 (7.14%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) CCIE
4 1 (7.14%) CCIE Data Center
4 1 (7.14%) CCNP
4 1 (7.14%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.14%) HND
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco