Design Engineer Contracts in Cambridge

Design Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Design Engineer daily rate in Cambridge is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 32 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Design Engineer 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 1.03% 1.03% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £600 £550 -
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £57.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cambridge. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cambridge with a recognized job title 178 272 302
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 93.47% 91.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 189 193
10th Percentile £231 £185 £313
25th Percentile £350 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £638 £600 £588
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - +10.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 16 17
10th Percentile £21.10 £16.49 £14.99
25th Percentile £25.00 £17.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £20.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +156.10% -19.61% +28.04%
75th Percentile £66.25 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 - £69.25
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.30 £15.50 £13.66
% change year-on-year +5.16% +13.47% +1.19%

Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Engineer in Cambridge

Design Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Engineer in Cambridge.

Daily rate trend for Design Engineer in Cambridge

Design Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Engineer in Cambridge.

Hourly rate trend for Design Engineer in Cambridge

Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Design Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the Cambridge region featuring Design Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Verilog
1 2 (100.00%) ASIC
1 2 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Reality
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Tcl
2 1 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (50.00%) Cadence
2 1 (50.00%) IC Design
2 1 (50.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (50.00%) Mentor Graphics
2 1 (50.00%) Electronic Design Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Wearables
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD

Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Wearables
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) ASIC
1 2 (100.00%) Verilog
2 1 (50.00%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (50.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Electronic Design Automation
1 1 (50.00%) IC Design
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Tcl
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cadence
1 1 (50.00%) Mentor Graphics