Senior Design Engineer Jobs

Senior Design Engineer
UK

The median Senior Design Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 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 849 913 1145
Rank change year-on-year +64 +232 -350
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Design Engineer 45 72 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.068% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.075% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 18 20 47
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,375 £48,750
25th Percentile £49,750 £56,875 £80,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £83,000
Median % change year-on-year - -27.71% +44.35%
75th Percentile £65,250 £77,813 -
90th Percentile £70,500 £79,625 £91,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £83,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -27.71% +44.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Design Engineer in the UK

Senior Design Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Design Engineer in the UK

Senior Design Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Senior Design Engineer in the UK

Senior Design Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Design Engineer within the UK 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
England +84 29 £57,500 -4.17% 88
UK excluding London -18 29 £55,000 -8.33% 88
North of England +66 15 £51,500 - 19
Yorkshire - 8 - - 8
Work from Home +75 6 £61,750 +2.92% 31
North West +16 6 £51,500 - 11
South East +15 6 £60,000 - 24
London +162 3 £63,500 -33.16% 10
Midlands +4 3 £50,000 -9.09% 8
Scotland -56 3 £60,000 -29.41% 8
West Midlands - 2 £50,000 - 4
East Midlands -18 1 £65,000 +18.18% 4
East of England -22 1 £42,500 -29.17% 19
North East - 1 £60,000 -
South West - 1 £50,000 - 7

Senior Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Design Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (28.89%) Oracle
1 13 (28.89%) Data Centre
2 7 (15.56%) Degree
2 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
3 6 (13.33%) Resource Management
3 6 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 6 (13.33%) TETRA
3 6 (13.33%) Electronics
4 4 (8.89%) Schematic Capture
4 4 (8.89%) EMC
4 4 (8.89%) Siemens
4 4 (8.89%) Firmware
4 4 (8.89%) Bluetooth
4 4 (8.89%) C
4 4 (8.89%) Ethernet
4 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.67%) Embedded C
5 3 (6.67%) CAD
5 3 (6.67%) AutoCAD
5 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.67%) Prototyping
5 3 (6.67%) Project Planning
5 3 (6.67%) Revit
5 3 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (4.44%) Code Quality
6 2 (4.44%) Analogue Electronics
6 2 (4.44%) Ladder Logic
6 2 (4.44%) RIBA
6 2 (4.44%) Social Skills

Senior Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.44%) WinCC
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) AutoCAD
1 3 (6.67%) Revit
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.22%) AWS
1 1 (2.22%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (2.22%) Azure
1 1 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) TETRA
2 4 (8.89%) Bluetooth
2 4 (8.89%) Ethernet
3 2 (4.44%) Modbus
3 2 (4.44%) Profibus
3 2 (4.44%) Wireless
3 2 (4.44%) ZigBee
4 1 (2.22%) 3GPP
4 1 (2.22%) 4G
4 1 (2.22%) 5G
4 1 (2.22%) 5G NR
4 1 (2.22%) GSM
4 1 (2.22%) LTE
4 1 (2.22%) Microwave Backhaul
4 1 (2.22%) Mobile Backhaul
4 1 (2.22%) Network Security
4 1 (2.22%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.22%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (2.22%) UMTS
4 1 (2.22%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Subversion
2 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (13.33%) Electronics
1 6 (13.33%) Manufacturing
2 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Finance
4 1 (2.22%) Games
4 1 (2.22%) Marketing
4 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.22%) Wearables
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.89%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.44%) Analogue Electronics
2 2 (4.44%) CAN bus
2 2 (4.44%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (4.44%) FPGA
2 2 (4.44%) SCADA
2 2 (4.44%) VHDL
3 1 (2.22%) ARM Cortex
3 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.22%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (2.22%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
2 6 (13.33%) Resource Management
3 4 (8.89%) Schematic Capture
4 3 (6.67%) CAD
4 3 (6.67%) Project Planning
4 3 (6.67%) Prototyping
4 3 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (4.44%) Code Quality
5 2 (4.44%) Programme Management
5 2 (4.44%) Project Management
5 2 (4.44%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (4.44%) Security Management
5 2 (4.44%) Software Engineering
5 2 (4.44%) Software Testing
6 1 (2.22%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (2.22%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (2.22%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (2.22%) Electronic Design Automation
6 1 (2.22%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.89%) C
2 3 (6.67%) Embedded C
3 2 (4.44%) C++
3 2 (4.44%) Ladder Logic
4 1 (2.22%) Embedded C++
4 1 (2.22%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) RIBA
3 1 (2.22%) BICSI Certification
3 1 (2.22%) BICSI RCDD
3 1 (2.22%) CISSP
3 1 (2.22%) GSEC
3 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) ISO 9001
1 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Firmware
2 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Oracle
2 4 (8.89%) EMC
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.89%) Siemens
3 2 (4.44%) Rockwell
4 1 (2.22%) Autodesk
4 1 (2.22%) F5
4 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.22%) SAP
4 1 (2.22%) Xilinx
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