Design Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Design Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Design Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 357 444
Rank change year-on-year +51 +87 -72
Contract jobs requiring a Design Engineer 83 97 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.42% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.44% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 28 23
10th Percentile £333 £377 £308
25th Percentile £513 £465 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +33.33% -2.94%
75th Percentile £775 £700 £462
90th Percentile £899 - £569
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 28 23
10th Percentile £52.00 - £24.23
25th Percentile £58.75 £42.50 £31.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% - +2.27%
75th Percentile £85.00 £60.00 £50.43
90th Percentile - £63.23 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +55.56% - +1.12%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,803 21,973 29,325
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.37% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,462 15,346 20,547
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,127 1,467
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.28
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%

Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Design Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Design Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Design Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Design Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Design Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Design Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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 of England +18 38 £700 - 128
South East +10 15 £750 +66.67% 134
North of England - 14 £405 - 105
North West - 10 £210 - 70
Midlands +29 8 £750 +53.85% 104
Scotland +40 5 £575 +39.34% 36
East Midlands +19 5 £750 +53.85% 52
South West -10 3 £775 +179.28% 69
Yorkshire - 3 £525 - 29
West Midlands - 3 £433 - 52
North East - 1 - - 6
Design Engineer
UK

Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 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 UK excluding London region featuring Design Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (45.78%) Security Cleared
2 22 (26.51%) DV Cleared
3 21 (25.30%) Degree
3 21 (25.30%) FPGA
3 21 (25.30%) FPGA Design
4 19 (22.89%) Xilinx
4 19 (22.89%) Verilog
4 19 (22.89%) C
4 19 (22.89%) SystemVerilog
5 18 (21.69%) VHDL
6 16 (19.28%) Intel
6 16 (19.28%) Simulink
6 16 (19.28%) UVM
6 16 (19.28%) Microsemi
6 16 (19.28%) Signal Processing
7 15 (18.07%) Social Skills
8 12 (14.46%) SC Cleared
9 10 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (9.64%) VMware
10 8 (9.64%) Microsoft
11 7 (8.43%) Cisco
11 7 (8.43%) Linux
11 7 (8.43%) Risk Management
11 7 (8.43%) Electronics
11 7 (8.43%) Network Design
12 6 (7.23%) VMware Infrastructure
12 6 (7.23%) Mentor Graphics
12 6 (7.23%) VPN
12 6 (7.23%) Active Directory

Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (19.28%) Simulink
2 4 (4.82%) AutoCAD
3 3 (3.61%) Revit
4 2 (2.41%) CATIA
5 1 (1.20%) EPLAN
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.20%) Siemens NX
5 1 (1.20%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.41%) AWS
1 2 (2.41%) IaaS
1 2 (2.41%) PaaS
1 2 (2.41%) SaaS
1 2 (2.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.23%) VPN
2 5 (6.02%) Firewall
3 4 (4.82%) 4G
3 4 (4.82%) 5G
3 4 (4.82%) Network Security
3 4 (4.82%) Wideband
4 3 (3.61%) WAN
5 2 (2.41%) LAN
5 2 (2.41%) MPLS
5 2 (2.41%) NAS
5 2 (2.41%) PBX
5 2 (2.41%) SAN
6 1 (1.20%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.20%) DMZ
6 1 (1.20%) DSL
6 1 (1.20%) LTE
6 1 (1.20%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.20%) SNMP
6 1 (1.20%) VoIP
6 1 (1.20%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.61%) Metadata
1 3 (3.61%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (2.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) Git
3 1 (1.20%) GitLab
General
1 15 (18.07%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.43%) Electronics
3 5 (6.02%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.82%) Aerospace
4 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.61%) Law
5 3 (3.61%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.20%) Banking
6 1 (1.20%) Finance
6 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.20%) Military
6 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.20%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.20%) JSON
1 1 (1.20%) Web Services
1 1 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.30%) FPGA
2 19 (22.89%) Verilog
3 18 (21.69%) VHDL
4 5 (6.02%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.61%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.61%) ASIC
6 2 (2.41%) PKI
7 1 (1.20%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (1.20%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.20%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.20%) GNSS
7 1 (1.20%) IoT
7 1 (1.20%) NHS
7 1 (1.20%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.20%) SCADA
7 1 (1.20%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.20%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.43%) Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (25.30%) FPGA Design
2 16 (19.28%) Signal Processing
2 16 (19.28%) UVM
3 10 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (8.43%) Network Design
5 7 (8.43%) Risk Management
6 5 (6.02%) Migration
6 5 (6.02%) Project Delivery
7 4 (4.82%) Load Balancing
7 4 (4.82%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (4.82%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (4.82%) Roadmaps
8 3 (3.61%) CAE
8 3 (3.61%) Computer Science
8 3 (3.61%) Data Analysis
8 3 (3.61%) Software Engineering
8 3 (3.61%) SQL Optimisation
8 3 (3.61%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (3.61%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 19 (22.89%) C
1 19 (22.89%) SystemVerilog
2 4 (4.82%) C++
2 4 (4.82%) SQL
3 3 (3.61%) Embedded C
3 3 (3.61%) Embedded C++
3 3 (3.61%) PL/SQL
3 3 (3.61%) Python
4 2 (2.41%) Bash
4 2 (2.41%) Tcl
5 1 (1.20%) C#
Qualifications
1 38 (45.78%) Security Cleared
2 22 (26.51%) DV Cleared
3 21 (25.30%) Degree
4 12 (14.46%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.61%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.41%) HND
7 1 (1.20%) CCIE
7 1 (1.20%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (1.20%) CCNP
7 1 (1.20%) CISA
7 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.20%) Def Stans
1 1 (1.20%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 6 (7.23%) Active Directory
1 6 (7.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.20%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (2.41%) VxRail
2 1 (1.20%) Ansible
2 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (22.89%) Xilinx
2 16 (19.28%) Intel
2 16 (19.28%) Microsemi
3 8 (9.64%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.64%) VMware
4 7 (8.43%) Cisco
5 6 (7.23%) Mentor Graphics
6 4 (4.82%) Juniper
7 3 (3.61%) Oracle
7 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.41%) Dell
9 1 (1.20%) Cadence
9 1 (1.20%) Radianz
9 1 (1.20%) Ribbon
9 1 (1.20%) Siemens