Oxford Design Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Design Engineer role in IT jobs within the Oxford region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Farnborough Fife Flintshire Glasgow Gloucestershire Gwent Hampshire Harlow Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Isle of Wight King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Loughborough Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Newton Aycliffe Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Potters Bar Preston Queensferry Reading Royston Rugby Rugeley Saffron Walden Scotland Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	84	94
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching permanent IT job ads	20	14
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	1.421 %	0.938 %
Salaries quoted	18	13
Average minimum salary	£35,889	£39,615
Average salary	£38,389	£40,769
% change on same period last year	-5.83 %
Average maximum salary	£40,889	£41,923
UK excluding London average salary	£41,875	£37,283
% change on same period last year	+12.31 %
Job Titles Oxford
Matching permanent IT job ads	1407	1492
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.743 %	0.611 %
Salaries quoted	1307	1350
Average minimum salary	£33,012	£32,592
Average salary	£36,319	£35,440
% change on same period last year	+2.47 %
Average maximum salary	£39,626	£38,288
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Design Engineer across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 19 (61.29 %) Microsoft 2 18 (58.06 %) MCSE 2 18 (58.06 %) Microsoft Certification 3 17 (54.84 %) Cisco 3 17 (54.84 %) Firewall 3 17 (54.84 %) Windows 3 17 (54.84 %) Windows 2000 3 17 (54.84 %) Network Design 4 16 (51.61 %) Cisco Certification 4 16 (51.61 %) CCNA 4 16 (51.61 %) Education 5 9 (29.03 %) Degree 6 8 (25.81 %) C++ 7 7 (22.58 %) C 7 7 (22.58 %) Electronics

8 4 (12.90 %) Validation 8 4 (12.90 %) VHDL 8 4 (12.90 %) Assembly Language 8 4 (12.90 %) Firmware 8 4 (12.90 %) Business Development 8 4 (12.90 %) Software Engineering 9 3 (9.677 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 9 3 (9.677 %) EMC 9 3 (9.677 %) Verilog 9 3 (9.677 %) ISO9001 10 2 (6.452 %) DHCP 10 2 (6.452 %) TCP/IP 10 2 (6.452 %) DNS 10 2 (6.452 %) Active Directory 10 2 (6.452 %) SharePoint

Design Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 Platforms 1 2 (6.452 %) SharePoint 1 2 (6.452 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (6.452 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 2 (6.452 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 2 (6.452 %) Office Communications Server	Applications 1 1 (3.226 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 17 (54.84 %) Firewall 2 2 (6.452 %) DHCP 2 2 (6.452 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (6.452 %) DNS 3 1 (3.226 %) LAN 3 1 (3.226 %) WAN	General 1 16 (51.61 %) Education 2 7 (22.58 %) Electronics 3 2 (6.452 %) Games
Miscellaneous 1 4 (12.90 %) Firmware 1 4 (12.90 %) VHDL 2 3 (9.677 %) Verilog 2 3 (9.677 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array	Operating Systems 1 17 (54.84 %) Windows 1 17 (54.84 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (3.226 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (54.84 %) Network Design 2 4 (12.90 %) Software Engineering 2 4 (12.90 %) Business Development 2 4 (12.90 %) Validation	Programming Languages 1 8 (25.81 %) C++ 2 7 (22.58 %) C 3 4 (12.90 %) Assembly Language 4 1 (3.226 %) Pascal
Qualifications 1 18 (58.06 %) MCSE 1 18 (58.06 %) Microsoft Certification 2 16 (51.61 %) CCNA 2 16 (51.61 %) Cisco Certification 3 9 (29.03 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (9.677 %) ISO9001
System Software 1 2 (6.452 %) Active Directory 1 2 (6.452 %) Terminal Services	Vendors 1 19 (61.29 %) Microsoft 2 17 (54.84 %) Cisco 3 3 (9.677 %) EMC