The first table below looks at the demand for the Design Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Design Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Design Engineer
Rank 160 178 197
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Design Engineer 59 44 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.132% 0.714% 0.250%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.204% 0.756% 0.265%
Number of salaries quoted 15 23 11
Average salary £60,000 £50,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% +42.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,500 £42,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +6.25%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4901 5818 4903
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 94.07% 94.43% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 3900 4958 4077
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +1.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Design Engineer
South East

Design Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Design Engineer across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Berkshire Design Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Design Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Design Engineer across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Design Engineer Salary Trend

Design Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Design Engineer across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire Design Engineer Salary Histogram

Design Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +15 23 £45,000 -10.00%
Slough -15 1 £37,500 -
Design Engineer
South East

Design Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Design Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Design Engineer in their job title.

1 47 (58.02%) Telecoms
2 37 (45.68%) 3G
3 31 (38.27%) INAP
4 29 (35.80%) SIGTRAN
5 28 (34.57%) Capacity Management
6 27 (33.33%) Validation
7 26 (32.10%) Project Management
8 24 (29.63%) LTE
9 20 (24.69%) Network Design
10 19 (23.46%) Cisco
11 18 (22.22%) OSPF
12 17 (20.99%) Nokia
13 16 (19.75%) Radio Access Network
14 15 (18.52%) Nokia Siemens Networks
14 15 (18.52%) Firewall
15 14 (17.28%) MGW
16 11 (13.58%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (12.35%) BGP
17 10 (12.35%) Windows
17 10 (12.35%) BSS
17 10 (12.35%) Load Balancing
18 9 (11.11%) Security Cleared
18 9 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
18 9 (11.11%) MPLS
19 8 (9.877%) Veritas
19 8 (9.877%) Juniper
19 8 (9.877%) CCIE
19 8 (9.877%) Disaster Recovery
19 8 (9.877%) NetBackup
19 8 (9.877%) 4G

Design Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Design Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Design Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (2.469%) .NET
2 1 (1.235%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.469%) MS Exchange
2 1 (1.235%) Lync
2 1 (1.235%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (3.704%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.235%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.235%) CATIA
2 1 (1.235%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.235%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 37 (45.68%) 3G
2 31 (38.27%) INAP
3 29 (35.80%) SIGTRAN
4 24 (29.63%) LTE
5 18 (22.22%) OSPF
6 16 (19.75%) Radio Access Network
7 15 (18.52%) Firewall
8 14 (17.28%) MGW
9 10 (12.35%) BGP
9 10 (12.35%) BSS
10 9 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
10 9 (11.11%) MPLS
11 8 (9.877%) 4G
12 7 (8.642%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (8.642%) Cisco PIX
12 7 (8.642%) ISUP
12 7 (8.642%) VPN
12 7 (8.642%) VoIP
13 6 (7.407%) Ethernet
13 6 (7.407%) Internet
General
1 47 (58.02%) Telecoms
2 6 (7.407%) Retail
2 6 (7.407%) Finance
3 3 (3.704%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.469%) Electronics
5 1 (1.235%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.642%) VHDL
1 7 (8.642%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 6 (7.407%) Replication
3 4 (4.938%) Smartphone
4 3 (3.704%) CPLD
4 3 (3.704%) MPEG
5 1 (1.235%) Robotics
5 1 (1.235%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.235%) Open Source
5 1 (1.235%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.35%) Windows
2 6 (7.407%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (6.173%) Linux
4 4 (4.938%) Solaris
5 2 (2.469%) UNIX
6 1 (1.235%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (34.57%) Capacity Management
2 27 (33.33%) Validation
3 26 (32.10%) Project Management
4 20 (24.69%) Network Design
5 10 (12.35%) Load Balancing
6 8 (9.877%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (7.407%) Service Management
8 5 (6.173%) Network Architecture
8 5 (6.173%) Risk Assessment
9 4 (4.938%) Network Management
10 2 (2.469%) Migration
10 2 (2.469%) High Availability
10 2 (2.469%) Data Protection
11 1 (1.235%) Resource Management
11 1 (1.235%) Benchmarking
11 1 (1.235%) Supplier Management
11 1 (1.235%) CAD
11 1 (1.235%) Business Intelligence
11 1 (1.235%) PRINCE2
11 1 (1.235%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.642%) C
2 4 (4.938%) SQL
3 3 (3.704%) Embedded C
4 1 (1.235%) C++
4 1 (1.235%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (13.58%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.877%) CCIE
4 6 (7.407%) DV Cleared
5 5 (6.173%) Degree
6 3 (3.704%) CCDE
6 3 (3.704%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.704%) CCA
6 3 (3.704%) CCIP
7 2 (2.469%) HNC
7 2 (2.469%) CCNP
7 2 (2.469%) CCDP
7 2 (2.469%) NCDA
7 2 (2.469%) NCIE
8 1 (1.235%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.235%) JNCIE
8 1 (1.235%) Check Point Certification
8 1 (1.235%) CCNA
8 1 (1.235%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.469%) SLA
1 2 (2.469%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.235%) QA
2 1 (1.235%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.235%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (4.938%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.469%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.235%) FreeRADIUS
Systems Management
1 8 (9.877%) NetBackup
2 6 (7.407%) Tivoli
2 6 (7.407%) Netcool
2 6 (7.407%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 1 (1.235%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 19 (23.46%) Cisco
2 17 (20.99%) Nokia
3 15 (18.52%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 8 (9.877%) Veritas
4 8 (9.877%) Juniper
5 6 (7.407%) CA
5 6 (7.407%) Fujitsu
6 5 (6.173%) Huawei
6 5 (6.173%) Microsoft
7 4 (4.938%) CheckPoint
7 4 (4.938%) Citrix
7 4 (4.938%) Xilinx
7 4 (4.938%) VMware
8 2 (2.469%) JBoss
8 2 (2.469%) Oracle
8 2 (2.469%) Sun
8 2 (2.469%) NetApp
8 2 (2.469%) Redback
9 1 (1.235%) ZyXEL
9 1 (1.235%) Draytek
Slough, Berkshire
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Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum Bonus, benefits and training
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