Somerset Design Engineer Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Design Engineer role in IT jobs within the Somerset 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Design Engineer
Location Aberdeen Andover Aylesbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Chepstow City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Exmouth Farnborough Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Gwent Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kings Langley King's Lynn Lancing Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London Lothian Maidenhead Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Newbury Newport Newton Abbot Newton Aycliffe Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Royston Rugby Saffron Walden Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	90	70
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching permanent IT job ads	10	3
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.767 %	0.311 %
Salaries quoted	10	3
Average minimum salary	£42,000	£34,333
Average salary	£43,750	£39,500
% change on same period last year	+10.75 %
Average maximum salary	£45,500	£44,667
UK excluding London average salary	£38,895	£37,892
% change on same period last year	+2.64 %
Job Titles Somerset
Matching permanent IT job ads	1303	966
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.749 %	0.414 %
Salaries quoted	1154	895
Average minimum salary	£30,874	£30,143
Average salary	£34,191	£33,239
% change on same period last year	+2.86 %
Average maximum salary	£37,507	£36,334
UK excluding London average salary	£38,185	£39,281
% change on same period last year	-2.78 %
Design Engineer South West

Design Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Design Engineer across the Somerset 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 Somerset region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Design Engineer across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 6 October 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
Bath	-22	7	£46,071	+29.77 %
Taunton	-	1	£45,000	-

Design Engineer South West

Design Engineer
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 10 (66.67 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 7 (46.67 %) Avionics 2 7 (46.67 %) Electronics 2 7 (46.67 %) Aerospace 3 3 (20.00 %) Wireless 3 3 (20.00 %) VHDL 3 3 (20.00 %) Telecoms 3 3 (20.00 %) OFDM 4 2 (13.33 %) Validation

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT jobs across the Somerset 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.

Communications & Networking 1 3 (20.00 %) Wireless 1 3 (20.00 %) OFDM	General 1 7 (46.67 %) Electronics 1 7 (46.67 %) Aerospace 1 7 (46.67 %) Avionics 2 3 (20.00 %) Telecoms
Miscellaneous 1 10 (66.67 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 3 (20.00 %) VHDL	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (13.33 %) Validation