Design Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Design Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Design Engineer salary in the Midlands is £48,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 280 344
Rank change year-on-year -12 +64 -93
Permanent jobs requiring a Design Engineer 21 37 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.18% 0.38% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.43% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 18 11 4
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,650
25th Percentile £40,938 £41,250 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £64,688 £67,875 £63,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £71,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% - +18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 10,915 8,626 10,315
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 89.38% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 8,220 4,767 7,141
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Engineer in the Midlands

Design Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Design Engineer in the Midlands

Design Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Design Engineer in the Midlands

Design Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 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
East Midlands -16 10 £40,000 -15.79% 40
West Midlands +11 7 £77,500 +21.09% 48
Design Engineer
England

Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 24 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 Midlands region featuring Design Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (28.57%) Manufacturing
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
2 5 (23.81%) HNC
3 4 (19.05%) HND
3 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (19.05%) Juniper
3 4 (19.05%) MPLS
3 4 (19.05%) BGP
3 4 (19.05%) EPLAN
3 4 (19.05%) Nokia
3 4 (19.05%) Network Design
3 4 (19.05%) JNCIP
3 4 (19.05%) JNCIE
3 4 (19.05%) Customer Service
3 4 (19.05%) Budget Management
4 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 3 (14.29%) Autodesk Inventor
4 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Power BI
4 3 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 3 (14.29%) Robotics
4 3 (14.29%) CAD
4 3 (14.29%) AutoCAD
4 3 (14.29%) Electronics
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (14.29%) C
5 2 (9.52%) Ethernet
5 2 (9.52%) Linux
5 2 (9.52%) Python

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) WinCC
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) EPLAN
2 3 (14.29%) AutoCAD
2 3 (14.29%) Autodesk Inventor
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) BGP
1 4 (19.05%) MPLS
2 2 (9.52%) Ethernet
2 2 (9.52%) Modbus
2 2 (9.52%) Profibus
3 1 (4.76%) Bluetooth
3 1 (4.76%) DVB
3 1 (4.76%) Wireless
3 1 (4.76%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
1 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 3 (14.29%) Electronics
2 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Automotive
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
3 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) .NET
1 1 (4.76%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Robotics
2 2 (9.52%) FPGA
2 2 (9.52%) SCADA
3 1 (4.76%) ARM Cortex
3 1 (4.76%) CPLD
3 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.76%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (19.05%) Budget Management
1 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Customer Service
1 4 (19.05%) Network Design
2 3 (14.29%) CAD
2 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
2 3 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 2 (9.52%) Code Quality
3 2 (9.52%) Finite Element Analysis
3 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
3 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (4.76%) Change Control
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science
4 1 (4.76%) Customer Experience
4 1 (4.76%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Fault Analysis
4 1 (4.76%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (4.76%) Schematic Capture
4 1 (4.76%) User Experience
4 1 (4.76%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) C
2 2 (9.52%) Ladder Logic
2 2 (9.52%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Assembly Language
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) C++
3 1 (4.76%) Embedded C
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
3 1 (4.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
2 5 (23.81%) HNC
3 4 (19.05%) HND
3 4 (19.05%) JNCIE
3 4 (19.05%) JNCIP
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Juniper
1 4 (19.05%) Nokia
2 2 (9.52%) ANSYS
2 2 (9.52%) EMC
2 2 (9.52%) Rockwell
2 2 (9.52%) Siemens
2 2 (9.52%) TOWER Software
3 1 (4.76%) CA
3 1 (4.76%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) Xilinx
88 Design Engineer jobs in the Midlands