Design Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Design Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Design Engineer salary in Manchester is £51,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 246 263
Rank change year-on-year +40 +17 -65
Permanent jobs requiring a Design Engineer 7 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.14% 0.019% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.021% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £44,250 - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 - £55,000
75th Percentile £55,000 - £60,000
90th Percentile £56,500 - -
North West median annual salary £47,500 - £61,250

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 4,776 4,715 5,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.03% 91.86% 97.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,725 2,736 3,770
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,579
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%

Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Engineer in Manchester

Design Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Design Engineer in Manchester.

Salary trend for Design Engineer in Manchester

Design Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 19 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bolton - 1 £50,000 -
Design Engineer
North West

Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Design Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Design Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Electronics
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Design for Manufacturing
2 2 (28.57%) Verification and Validation
2 2 (28.57%) CAN bus
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Schematic Capture
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Ethernet
2 2 (28.57%) EMC
2 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
2 2 (28.57%) TETRA
3 1 (14.29%) Firmware
3 1 (14.29%) FPGA
3 1 (14.29%) FPGA Design
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems

Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Ethernet
1 2 (28.57%) TETRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Electronics
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) CAN bus
2 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (14.29%) FPGA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Design for Manufacturing
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
1 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
1 2 (28.57%) Schematic Capture
1 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
1 2 (28.57%) Validation
1 2 (28.57%) Verification and Validation
2 1 (14.29%) FPGA Design
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) EMC