Design Engineer Contracts in Luton

Design Engineer
Bedfordshire > Luton

The median Design Engineer daily rate in Luton is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Design Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Luton 3.45% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £600 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Luton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Luton. 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 Luton with a recognized job title 104 116 103
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 89.92% 99.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 63 74
10th Percentile £380 £300 £300
25th Percentile £500 £419 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £650 £580 £600
90th Percentile £726 £625 £629
Bedfordshire median daily rate £580 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +16.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 24 3
10th Percentile £65.00 - £26.00
25th Percentile £75.00 £15.39 £42.50
Median hourly rate £85.00 £30.25 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +180.99% -59.67% +328.57%
75th Percentile £91.50 £65.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £67.50 £88.00
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £80.00 £60.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% +23.71% -7.62%

Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Engineer in Luton

Design Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Luton

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Engineer in Luton

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 2025, 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 Luton region featuring Design Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) OneDrive
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
1 4 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 4 (100.00%) Zero Trust
1 4 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 4 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 4 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (75.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication

Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Luton 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 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 4 (100.00%) OneDrive
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 4 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 4 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 4 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (75.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
1 4 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft