Senior Design Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Design Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Design Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £352, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 359 393
Rank change year-on-year -16 +34 +94
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Design Engineer 3 6 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.035% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.038% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £113 - £456
25th Percentile £202 - £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £352 £405 £519
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% -21.93% +29.69%
75th Percentile £501 - £634
90th Percentile £590 - £786
UK median daily rate £352 £405 £575
% change year-on-year -13.21% -29.57% +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £60.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 14,359 15,885 19,996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 92.20% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,821 9,035 13,340
10th Percentile £209 £220 £220
25th Percentile £363 £372 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% -1.80% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,365 1,192 1,260
10th Percentile £13.58 £14.73 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.59 £18.00
Median hourly rate £24.62 £41.53 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.72% -6.67% +97.78%
75th Percentile £50.00 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.27 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.05% -8.30% +69.56%

Senior Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Design Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Senior Design Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior Design Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Design Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Design Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Senior Design Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Design Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Design Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Design Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Design Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Design Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 October 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
East of England - 2 £53 - 9
North West -22 1 £650 +60.49% 1
North of England -29 1 £650 +60.49% 3
Senior Design Engineer
UK

Senior Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 October 2025, Senior Design Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Design Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) ANSYS
2 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
2 1 (33.33%) CAD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) Finite Element Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Google Workspace
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (33.33%) PLM
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Product Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) PTC
2 1 (33.33%) PTC Creo
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Siemens
2 1 (33.33%) Siemens NX
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Teamcenter
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience

Senior Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) PTC Creo
1 1 (33.33%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Google Workspace
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Signage
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
1 1 (33.33%) CAD
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Finite Element Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (33.33%) PLM
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Product Requirements
1 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) ANSYS
1 1 (33.33%) EMC
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) PTC
1 1 (33.33%) Siemens