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 £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 June 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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 342 441
Rank change year-on-year +24 +99 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Design Engineer 74 95 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.42% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.45% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 31 27
10th Percentile £260 £413 £308
25th Percentile £468 £452 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +29.41% -
75th Percentile £769 £700 £481
90th Percentile £798 - £560
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 22 24
10th Percentile £51.25 - £24.36
25th Percentile £53.75 £42.50 £38.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £85.00 £58.83 £50.21
90th Percentile - £62.00 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +55.56% - +12.50%

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 19,293 21,279 29,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 94.28% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,580 14,791 20,569
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,073 1,404
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.00 £14.86
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.21
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +2 30 £700 - 100
South East +19 14 £750 +66.67% 117
North of England - 14 £405 - 91
North West - 11 £210 - 55
Midlands +25 8 £750 +51.13% 91
East Midlands +12 5 £750 +51.13% 46
Scotland +47 4 £575 +39.34% 35
South West -12 3 £775 +179.28% 45
West Midlands - 3 £433 - 45
Yorkshire - 3 £525 - 27
Wales +10 1 - - 24
Design Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 June 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 28 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 22 (29.73%) Degree
2 22 (29.73%) FPGA
2 22 (29.73%) FPGA Design
3 20 (27.03%) Verilog
4 19 (25.68%) C
4 19 (25.68%) Xilinx
4 19 (25.68%) VHDL
4 19 (25.68%) DV Cleared
4 19 (25.68%) SystemVerilog
5 17 (22.97%) UVM
6 16 (21.62%) Microsemi
6 16 (21.62%) Signal Processing
6 16 (21.62%) Intel
6 16 (21.62%) Simulink
7 11 (14.86%) Social Skills
8 10 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (10.81%) Linux
9 8 (10.81%) SC Cleared
9 8 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (9.46%) Microsoft
10 7 (9.46%) VMware
10 7 (9.46%) Risk Management
11 6 (8.11%) Aerospace
12 5 (6.76%) VMware Infrastructure
12 5 (6.76%) Manufacturing
12 5 (6.76%) Migration
12 5 (6.76%) Active Directory
12 5 (6.76%) Project Delivery
13 4 (5.41%) Public Sector

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 (21.62%) Simulink
2 4 (5.41%) AutoCAD
3 3 (4.05%) Revit
4 2 (2.70%) CATIA
5 1 (1.35%) EPLAN
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.35%) Siemens NX
5 1 (1.35%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.70%) AWS
1 2 (2.70%) IaaS
1 2 (2.70%) PaaS
1 2 (2.70%) SaaS
1 2 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) Wideband
2 3 (4.05%) WAN
3 2 (2.70%) LAN
3 2 (2.70%) MPLS
3 2 (2.70%) NAS
3 2 (2.70%) PBX
3 2 (2.70%) SAN
3 2 (2.70%) VPN
4 1 (1.35%) ADSL
4 1 (1.35%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.35%) DMZ
4 1 (1.35%) DSL
4 1 (1.35%) Firewall
4 1 (1.35%) GSM
4 1 (1.35%) LTE
4 1 (1.35%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.35%) VoIP
4 1 (1.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.05%) Metadata
1 3 (4.05%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (2.70%) Git
2 2 (2.70%) JIRA
3 1 (1.35%) GitLab
General
1 11 (14.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.11%) Aerospace
3 5 (6.76%) Manufacturing
4 4 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.05%) Electronics
5 3 (4.05%) Law
5 3 (4.05%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.70%) Wearables
7 1 (1.35%) Banking
7 1 (1.35%) Finance
7 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Military
7 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.35%) JSON
1 1 (1.35%) Web Services
1 1 (1.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (29.73%) FPGA
2 20 (27.03%) Verilog
3 19 (25.68%) VHDL
4 3 (4.05%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.05%) ASIC
5 2 (2.70%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.70%) PKI
5 2 (2.70%) Smartphone
5 2 (2.70%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (1.35%) Analogue Electronics
6 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.35%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.35%) GNSS
6 1 (1.35%) IoT
6 1 (1.35%) NHS
6 1 (1.35%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.81%) Linux
2 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (29.73%) FPGA Design
2 17 (22.97%) UVM
3 16 (21.62%) Signal Processing
4 10 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (9.46%) Risk Management
7 5 (6.76%) Migration
7 5 (6.76%) Project Delivery
8 4 (5.41%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (4.05%) CI/CD
9 3 (4.05%) Data Analysis
9 3 (4.05%) Kalman Filter
9 3 (4.05%) Mentoring
9 3 (4.05%) Network Design
9 3 (4.05%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (4.05%) Roadmaps
9 3 (4.05%) SQL Optimisation
9 3 (4.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (4.05%) Strategic Planning
9 3 (4.05%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (25.68%) C
1 19 (25.68%) SystemVerilog
2 4 (5.41%) C++
2 4 (5.41%) Python
2 4 (5.41%) SQL
3 3 (4.05%) Bash
3 3 (4.05%) Embedded C
3 3 (4.05%) Embedded C++
3 3 (4.05%) PL/SQL
3 3 (4.05%) Tcl
4 1 (1.35%) C#
Qualifications
1 28 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 22 (29.73%) Degree
3 19 (25.68%) DV Cleared
4 8 (10.81%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.05%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.70%) HND
7 1 (1.35%) CCIE
7 1 (1.35%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (1.35%) CCNP
7 1 (1.35%) CISA
7 1 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.35%) Def Stans
1 1 (1.35%) IEC 61508
1 1 (1.35%) JTAG
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) Active Directory
1 5 (6.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.70%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (2.70%) Firmware
2 2 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.70%) VxRail
2 1 (1.35%) Ansible
2 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (25.68%) Xilinx
2 16 (21.62%) Intel
2 16 (21.62%) Microsemi
3 7 (9.46%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.46%) VMware
4 3 (4.05%) Cisco
4 3 (4.05%) Oracle
5 2 (2.70%) Dell
5 2 (2.70%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.70%) Siemens
6 1 (1.35%) Cadence
6 1 (1.35%) Mentor Graphics
6 1 (1.35%) Radianz
6 1 (1.35%) Ribbon