The first table below looks at the demand for the Design Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 18 June 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Design Engineer
Rank 134 89 165
Rank change year-on-year
-45 +76
Permanent jobs requiring a Design Engineer 12 62 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.500% 2.454% 0.465%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.532% 2.555% 0.498%
Number of salaries quoted 12 38 14
Average salary £50,000 £37,500 £37,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% +0.67%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £31,500 £33,300
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £44,700
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+18.75% -
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2254 2427 3417
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 93.88% 96.08% 93.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1781 1968 2774
Average salary £42,500 £42,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.19% +1.20%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Design Engineer
East of England

Design Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Design Engineer Salary Trend

Design Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Design Engineer across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Stevenage -5 2 £56,250 -2.17% 1
Kings Langley -2 1 £35,000 -
Royston - 1 £35,000 -
Borehamwood - 1 £50,000 -
Design Engineer
East of England

Design Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 17 (60.71%) Degree
2 14 (50.00%) Electronics
3 12 (42.86%) Multithreading
4 11 (39.29%) Time Management
5 9 (32.14%) ASIC
6 7 (25.00%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (21.43%) Linux
8 5 (17.86%) EMC
8 5 (17.86%) C++
9 4 (14.29%) C
9 4 (14.29%) UNIX
9 4 (14.29%) Military
9 4 (14.29%) VHDL
9 4 (14.29%) Verilog
9 4 (14.29%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
10 2 (7.143%) Finance
10 2 (7.143%) Validation
10 2 (7.143%) French Language
10 2 (7.143%) Italian Language
10 2 (7.143%) MODAF
10 2 (7.143%) Data Analysis
10 2 (7.143%) Software Engineering
10 2 (7.143%) Windows
10 2 (7.143%) MATLAB
10 2 (7.143%) OO
10 2 (7.143%) MySQL
10 2 (7.143%) Perl
10 2 (7.143%) OOD
10 2 (7.143%) Video Processing
10 2 (7.143%) C-shell

Design Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 1 (3.571%) OpenGL
1 1 (3.571%) DirectX
1 1 (3.571%) LAMP
1 1 (3.571%) Direct3D
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.571%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) MS Excel
1 1 (3.571%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.571%) HTTP
1 1 (3.571%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.143%) MySQL
General
1 14 (50.00%) Electronics
2 4 (14.29%) Military
3 2 (7.143%) French Language
3 2 (7.143%) Italian Language
3 2 (7.143%) Finance
4 1 (3.571%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) ASIC
2 7 (25.00%) 3D Graphics
3 4 (14.29%) VHDL
3 4 (14.29%) Verilog
3 4 (14.29%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 1 (3.571%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.571%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.571%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Linux
2 4 (14.29%) UNIX
3 2 (7.143%) Windows
4 1 (3.571%) VMS
4 1 (3.571%) Android
4 1 (3.571%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Multithreading
2 11 (39.29%) Time Management
3 2 (7.143%) Video Processing
3 2 (7.143%) OO
3 2 (7.143%) OOD
3 2 (7.143%) Validation
3 2 (7.143%) Data Analysis
3 2 (7.143%) Software Engineering
3 2 (7.143%) MODAF
4 1 (3.571%) Electronic Design Automation
4 1 (3.571%) Network Design
4 1 (3.571%) CAE
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) C++
2 4 (14.29%) C
3 2 (7.143%) MATLAB
3 2 (7.143%) C-shell
3 2 (7.143%) Perl
4 1 (3.571%) PHP
4 1 (3.571%) SQL
4 1 (3.571%) Python
4 1 (3.571%) Tcl
4 1 (3.571%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (60.71%) Degree
2 1 (3.571%) CCIE
2 1 (3.571%) CCNP
2 1 (3.571%) CCNA
2 1 (3.571%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) ISO 9000
1 1 (3.571%) DO-254
System Software
1 1 (3.571%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.571%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) EMC
2 1 (3.571%) VMware
2 1 (3.571%) Xilinx
2 1 (3.571%) Altera
2 1 (3.571%) Oracle
2 1 (3.571%) Cisco
2 1 (3.571%) Microsoft
St. Albans, South East
The Senior Mechanical Design Engineer will have experience with: - Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline - 5-10 years experience in a product development environment - 3D CAD: [NX] -...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + BUPA, Pension, Holidays
Posted: 21 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, South East
The Senior Mechanical Design Engineer will have experience with: - Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline - 5-10 years experience in a product development environment - 3D CAD: [NX] -...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + BUPA, Pension, Holidays
Posted: 21 May 2013