Design Engineer Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Design Engineer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Design Engineer daily rate in South Yorkshire is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Design Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.33% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £465 -
% change year-on-year +12.90% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 553 390 418
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.92% 85.90% 93.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 216 271
10th Percentile £289 £230 £280
25th Percentile £369 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £650
90th Percentile £625 £644 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £517
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.29% +3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £14.98 £15.05 £15.27
25th Percentile £16.68 £20.00 £18.31
Median hourly rate £19.50 £21.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +6.58%
75th Percentile £22.33 £21.50 £29.13
90th Percentile £24.02 £21.80 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.79 £23.34 £20.91
% change year-on-year +1.92% +11.65% +10.03%

Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Engineer in South Yorkshire

Design Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Design Engineer job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Design Engineer job vacancies in South Yorkshire

Design Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Design Engineer job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Design Engineer job vacancies in South Yorkshire

Design Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 September 2025. 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
Sheffield - 2 £525 - 2
Design Engineer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 30 September 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 South Yorkshire region featuring Design Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (50.00%) SABSA
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth

Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) SABSA
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PhD
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft