Design Engineer Jobs in the South West

Design Engineer
England > South West

The median Design Engineer salary in the South West is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 253 286
Rank change year-on-year -18 +33 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Design Engineer 18 18 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.20% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.29% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 15 12 6
10th Percentile £22,500 £42,500 £43,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £48,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -14.06% +21.90%
75th Percentile £53,750 £65,938 £66,000
90th Percentile £56,500 £76,250 -
England median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% - +20.93%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 8,802 6,157 7,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.10% 89.15% 96.44%
Number of salaries quoted 6,436 3,853 5,126
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,288 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Engineer in the South West

Design Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Design Engineer in the South West

Design Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Design Engineer in the South West

Design Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Bristol +13 12 £50,000 +25.00% 25
Somerset +1 2 £41,250 -25.00% 12
Dorset -26 2 £40,000 -31.91% 9
Gloucestershire - 1 £50,000 - 7
Design Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 South West region featuring Design Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (38.89%) FPGA
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
1 7 (38.89%) FPGA Design
2 5 (27.78%) V-Model
2 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 5 (27.78%) Validation
2 5 (27.78%) Verification and Validation
3 4 (22.22%) Systems Engineering
3 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) Mathematics
3 4 (22.22%) Physics
3 4 (22.22%) Chemistry
3 4 (22.22%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (16.67%) Electronics
4 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 2 (11.11%) Subversion
5 2 (11.11%) SAP
5 2 (11.11%) VHDL
5 2 (11.11%) Verilog
5 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
5 2 (11.11%) Firmware
5 2 (11.11%) Finance
5 2 (11.11%) Linux
5 2 (11.11%) Python
5 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence

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

Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
1 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) RS-485
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) RS-232
2 1 (5.56%) SAN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
1 2 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 3 (16.67%) Electronics
2 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Military
4 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) FPGA
2 4 (22.22%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (11.11%) CPLD
3 2 (11.11%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (11.11%) Verilog
3 2 (11.11%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) FPGA Design
2 5 (27.78%) Validation
2 5 (27.78%) Verification and Validation
2 5 (27.78%) V-Model
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) Chemistry
3 4 (22.22%) Mathematics
3 4 (22.22%) Physics
3 4 (22.22%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (11.11%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
4 2 (11.11%) Schematic Capture
5 1 (5.56%) CAD
5 1 (5.56%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (5.56%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (5.56%) Project Management
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) Degree
3 4 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.56%) CCNP
4 1 (5.56%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) HNC
4 1 (5.56%) HND
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco
2 1 (5.56%) VMware