Design Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Design Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Design Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 155 193
Rank change year-on-year +28 +38 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Design Engineer 7 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.23% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.25% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile £483 £325 £394
25th Percentile £583 £338 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £418 £513
Median % change year-on-year +79.64% -18.54% +78.26%
75th Percentile - £488 £572
90th Percentile - £501 £581
England median daily rate £575 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +15.00% +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 - -
75th Percentile £42.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +55.56% -5.26% +8.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,513 3,238 4,812
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.92% 94.62% 95.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 2,280 3,523
10th Percentile £213 £220 £208
25th Percentile £325 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% +3.26% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £680 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 127 172
10th Percentile £11.84 £12.30 £10.52
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.17 £14.24
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.38
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +15.07% +14.42%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.25 £22.03
90th Percentile £52.78 £60.50 £34.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Engineer in the Midlands

Design Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Design Engineer in the Midlands

Design Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Engineer in the Midlands

Design Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Engineer in the Midlands

Design Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Design Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands +17 4 £750 +63.04% 55
West Midlands +24 3 £433 +15.33% 55
Design Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 Midlands region featuring Design Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (28.57%) SAN
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
1 2 (28.57%) Dell
1 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) NAS
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
1 2 (28.57%) VxRail
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (14.29%) CCIE Data Center
2 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
2 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
2 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Bill of Materials
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
2 1 (14.29%) Validation
2 1 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CATIA

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

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) CATIA
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) NAS
1 2 (28.57%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) MPLS
2 1 (14.29%) PBX
2 1 (14.29%) VoIP
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) WLAN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) IoT
1 1 (14.29%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Analytics
1 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
1 1 (14.29%) Change Management
1 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
1 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
1 1 (14.29%) FMECA
1 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing Engineering
1 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
1 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
1 1 (14.29%) Network Design
1 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
1 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
1 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
1 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
1 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (14.29%) SOA
1 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
1 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (14.29%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CCIE
2 1 (14.29%) CCIE Data Center
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) CISA
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Dell
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco