Essex Design Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Design Engineer role in IT jobs within the Essex region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited Design Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 9 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Design Engineer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Fife Flintshire Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harlow Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Isle of Wight King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London Loughborough Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Newton Aycliffe Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Potters Bar Preston Queensferry Reading Romsey Royston Rugby Rugeley Saffron Walden Scotland Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	104	106
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	16	8
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.805 %	0.386 %
Salaries quoted	11	3
Average minimum salary	£31,818	£47,333
Average salary	£36,136	£47,667
% change on same period last year	-24.18 %
Average maximum salary	£40,455	£48,000
UK excluding London average salary	£41,661	£37,384
% change on same period last year	+11.44 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching permanent IT job ads	1988	2073
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.022 %	0.863 %
Salaries quoted	1659	1807
Average minimum salary	£36,226	£36,309
Average salary	£38,429	£38,308
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Average maximum salary	£40,631	£40,306
UK excluding London average salary	£38,190	£39,485
% change on same period last year	-3.27 %
Design Engineer East of England

Design Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Design Engineer across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Design Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Design Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Design Engineer across the Essex region over the 3 months to 9 July 2008.

Design Engineer
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT job ads citing Design Engineer within the Essex region over the 3 months to 9 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Saffron Walden	-	4	£32,500	-
Harlow	-	3	£35,000	-

Design Engineer East of England

Design Engineer
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 July 2008, IT jobs across the Essex 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 14 (46.67 %) CAD 2 13 (43.33 %) Cadence 2 13 (43.33 %) Pensions 3 11 (36.67 %) Broadband 3 11 (36.67 %) Government 4 7 (23.33 %) Xilinx 4 7 (23.33 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 4 7 (23.33 %) VHDL 5 5 (16.67 %) Military 5 5 (16.67 %) Communications Security 6 4 (13.33 %) MATLAB 6 4 (13.33 %) MS Office 6 4 (13.33 %) Firmware 7 3 (10.00 %) Degree 7 3 (10.00 %) GPRS

7 3 (10.00 %) Wireless 7 3 (10.00 %) Electronics 8 2 (6.667 %) Health 8 2 (6.667 %) Manufacturing 8 2 (6.667 %) HNC 8 2 (6.667 %) Insurance 9 1 (3.333 %) Agilent 9 1 (3.333 %) IC Design 9 1 (3.333 %) Gigabit Ethernet 9 1 (3.333 %) Ethernet 9 1 (3.333 %) HP 9 1 (3.333 %) Intel 9 1 (3.333 %) Education

Design Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 July 2008, IT jobs across the Essex 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.

Applications 1 4 (13.33 %) MS Office 1 4 (13.33 %) MATLAB	Communications & Networking 1 11 (36.67 %) Broadband 2 3 (10.00 %) GPRS 2 3 (10.00 %) Wireless 3 1 (3.333 %) Gigabit Ethernet 3 1 (3.333 %) Ethernet
General 1 13 (43.33 %) Pensions 2 11 (36.67 %) Government 3 5 (16.67 %) Military 4 3 (10.00 %) Electronics 5 2 (6.667 %) Health 5 2 (6.667 %) Manufacturing 5 2 (6.667 %) Insurance 6 1 (3.333 %) Education	Miscellaneous 1 7 (23.33 %) VHDL 1 7 (23.33 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 4 (13.33 %) Firmware
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (46.67 %) CAD 2 5 (16.67 %) Communications Security 3 1 (3.333 %) IC Design	Qualifications 1 3 (10.00 %) Degree 2 2 (6.667 %) HNC
Vendors 1 13 (43.33 %) Cadence 2 7 (23.33 %) Xilinx 3 1 (3.333 %) Agilent 3 1 (3.333 %) HP 3 1 (3.333 %) Intel