Senior Design Engineer Contracts

Senior Design Engineer
UK

The median Senior Design Engineer daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 681 810
Rank change year-on-year +110 +129 -138
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Design Engineer 15 41 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.068% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.072% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 15
10th Percentile £405 £369 £409
25th Percentile £513 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +36.11% +6.13%
75th Percentile £925 £619 £554
90th Percentile - - £607
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £353 £479
% change year-on-year +63.12% -26.46% +13.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 18 4
10th Percentile - - £39.88
25th Percentile - £42.50 £41.56
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £45.00
75th Percentile - £47.50 £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £45.00 £45.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Design Engineer in the UK

Senior Design Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Design Engineer in the UK

Senior Design Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Design Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Design Engineer in the UK

Senior Design Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Design Engineer in the UK

Senior Design Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 April 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
UK excluding London +53 14 £575 +63.12% 90
England +97 11 £525 +33.33% 90
North of England - 5 £465 - 17
Work from Home +104 4 £525 -14.29% 33
East of England +4 4 £900 - 21
Scotland - 3 £575 - 8
North West - 3 £405 - 9
Yorkshire - 2 £525 - 8
South East -5 1 £388 - 26
West Midlands - 1 - - 4
Midlands - 1 - - 9

Senior Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Design Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Metadata
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Optimisation
3 3 (20.00%) 3D Modelling
3 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Revit
3 3 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
3 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (20.00%) AutoCAD
3 3 (20.00%) CAE
3 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco
4 2 (13.33%) LAN
4 2 (13.33%) WLAN
4 2 (13.33%) WAN
4 2 (13.33%) Law

Senior Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (20.00%) AutoCAD
1 3 (20.00%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) IaaS
1 2 (13.33%) PaaS
1 2 (13.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) LAN
1 2 (13.33%) WAN
1 2 (13.33%) WLAN
2 1 (6.67%) BGP
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) MPLS
2 1 (6.67%) NetScreen
2 1 (6.67%) OSPF
2 1 (6.67%) PBX
2 1 (6.67%) VoIP
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Metadata
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Law
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Military
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) 3D Modelling
1 3 (20.00%) CAE
1 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Optimisation
1 3 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (13.33%) Design Thinking
2 2 (13.33%) ITIL
2 2 (13.33%) Network Design
2 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (13.33%) Service Design
2 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (6.67%) Performance Management
3 1 (6.67%) Programme Management
3 1 (6.67%) Resource Management
3 1 (6.67%) Service Management
3 1 (6.67%) SOA
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) CCIE
4 1 (6.67%) CCIE Data Center
4 1 (6.67%) CCNP
4 1 (6.67%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (6.67%) HND
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) F5
3 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.67%) Infoblox
3 1 (6.67%) Juniper