Research Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Research Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Research Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £58,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 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 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 681 719 797
Rank change year-on-year +38 +78 -118
Permanent jobs requiring a Research Engineer 75 35 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.059% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.066% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 53 11 23
10th Percentile £35,250 £42,000 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £75,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +57.89% -45.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £87,050
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,350
UK median annual salary £58,000 £73,750 £49,167
% change year-on-year -21.36% +50.00% -19.73%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,946 52,777 68,977
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.21% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,984 30,164 42,468
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Research Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Research Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Research Engineer in the UK excluding London

Research Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Research Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Research Engineer in the UK excluding London

Research Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Research Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Research Engineer in the UK excluding London

Research Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Research Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
South East - 39 £58,000 - 12
Scotland -48 23 £100,000 +138.10% 3
North of England +48 6 £40,138 -27.02% 2
North West +6 6 £40,138 -27.02% 2
South West -32 4 £37,500 -50.00% 3
West Midlands +14 2 - - 1
Midlands +1 2 - - 3
East of England 0 1 £85,000 -10.53% 7
Research Engineer
UK

Research Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Research 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 UK excluding London region featuring Research Engineer in the job title.

1 47 (62.67%) Software Engineering
2 43 (57.33%) Python
3 31 (41.33%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (36.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (32.00%) Degree
6 20 (26.67%) Computer Science
7 18 (24.00%) SDLC
8 17 (22.67%) Relational Database
8 17 (22.67%) OO
8 17 (22.67%) Java
8 17 (22.67%) JavaScript
8 17 (22.67%) MySQL
8 17 (22.67%) Full Stack Development
9 16 (21.33%) Linux
9 16 (21.33%) C++
9 16 (21.33%) React
10 15 (20.00%) Algorithms
11 14 (18.67%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (18.67%) AWS
12 13 (17.33%) C
12 13 (17.33%) Finance
12 13 (17.33%) Open Source
13 12 (16.00%) Physics
14 11 (14.67%) Investment Banking
14 11 (14.67%) Agile
14 11 (14.67%) Banking
14 11 (14.67%) Spring
14 11 (14.67%) Maven
14 11 (14.67%) Law
14 11 (14.67%) Publishing

Research Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (8.00%) ArcGIS
2 4 (5.33%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 14 (18.67%) AWS
2 4 (5.33%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.00%) Modbus
1 3 (4.00%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.67%) MySQL
1 17 (22.67%) Relational Database
2 6 (8.00%) GIS
2 6 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.67%) Geospatial Data
3 5 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (14.67%) Maven
General
1 27 (36.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (17.33%) Finance
3 11 (14.67%) Banking
3 11 (14.67%) Investment Banking
3 11 (14.67%) Law
3 11 (14.67%) Publishing
4 6 (8.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.33%) React
2 11 (14.67%) Spring
2 11 (14.67%) Spring Boot
3 6 (8.00%) .NET
3 6 (8.00%) .NET Core
4 5 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 5 (6.67%) ASP.NET
4 5 (6.67%) Blazor
4 5 (6.67%) CSS
4 5 (6.67%) GeoJSON
4 5 (6.67%) HTML
4 5 (6.67%) HTML5
4 5 (6.67%) JSON
4 5 (6.67%) Node.js
4 5 (6.67%) PostGIS
4 5 (6.67%) RESTful
4 5 (6.67%) Svelte
4 5 (6.67%) Vue
4 5 (6.67%) XML
5 4 (5.33%) GeoPandas
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 11 (14.67%) Cloud Native
2 11 (14.67%) Distributed Applications
3 9 (12.00%) IoT
4 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.33%) Robotics
5 3 (4.00%) CAN bus
5 3 (4.00%) NHS
5 3 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.67%) Mixed Reality
6 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.33%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.33%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.33%) Linux
2 7 (9.33%) Unix
3 5 (6.67%) Windows
4 4 (5.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (62.67%) Software Engineering
2 31 (41.33%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (26.67%) Computer Science
4 18 (24.00%) SDLC
5 17 (22.67%) Full Stack Development
5 17 (22.67%) OO
6 14 (18.67%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (17.33%) Open Source
8 12 (16.00%) Physics
9 11 (14.67%) Agile
9 11 (14.67%) IT Strategy
9 11 (14.67%) OOP
9 11 (14.67%) Technology Strategy
10 10 (13.33%) Analytics
10 10 (13.33%) Coaching
10 10 (13.33%) Data Engineering
10 10 (13.33%) Data Modelling
10 10 (13.33%) Data Science
10 10 (13.33%) Mentoring
10 10 (13.33%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 43 (57.33%) Python
2 17 (22.67%) Java
2 17 (22.67%) JavaScript
3 16 (21.33%) C++
4 13 (17.33%) C
5 11 (14.67%) Bash
5 11 (14.67%) Groovy
5 11 (14.67%) SQL
5 11 (14.67%) T-SQL
6 9 (12.00%) Rust
7 7 (9.33%) Fortran
8 6 (8.00%) C#
9 2 (2.67%) Go
9 2 (2.67%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 24 (32.00%) Degree
2 8 (10.67%) Master's Degree
2 8 (10.67%) PhD
3 7 (9.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (5.33%) Docker
1 4 (5.33%) NFS
1 4 (5.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
1 4 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (14.67%) Terraform
2 4 (5.33%) Ansible
2 4 (5.33%) Grafana
2 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (9.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.00%) Oracle
3 5 (6.67%) ESRI
4 4 (5.33%) VMware