Design Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Design Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Design Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £470 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 396 550
Rank change year-on-year +94 +154 -112
Contract jobs requiring a Design Engineer 42 75 73
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.29% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.31% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 24 42
10th Percentile - £373 £384
25th Percentile £300 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £590
90th Percentile £558 £641 £725
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +9.52% +2.44% +20.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 23 12
10th Percentile - - £33.13
25th Percentile £60.00 £42.50 £41.56
Median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% - +14.59%
75th Percentile £85.00 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile - £58.92 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +55.56% - +4.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,262 24,476 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,547 17,287 30,849
10th Percentile £325 £356 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 563 608
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.98 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Design Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Design Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Design Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Design Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Design Engineer.

Design Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Design Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Design Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Design Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Design Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Design Engineer.

Design Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Design Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Design Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Design Engineer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Design Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (40.48%) FPGA
1 17 (40.48%) Xilinx
1 17 (40.48%) FPGA Design
2 16 (38.10%) Signal Processing
2 16 (38.10%) Microsemi
2 16 (38.10%) SystemVerilog
2 16 (38.10%) UVM
2 16 (38.10%) Degree
2 16 (38.10%) VHDL
2 16 (38.10%) Verilog
2 16 (38.10%) C
2 16 (38.10%) Intel
2 16 (38.10%) Simulink
3 13 (30.95%) Security Cleared
4 9 (21.43%) 4G
4 9 (21.43%) 5G
5 8 (19.05%) Network Design
5 8 (19.05%) Firewall
6 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
7 6 (14.29%) Juniper
7 6 (14.29%) Cisco
8 5 (11.90%) VPN
8 5 (11.90%) Electronics
8 5 (11.90%) Telecoms
8 5 (11.90%) Load Balancing
8 5 (11.90%) Network Security
8 5 (11.90%) Mentor Graphics
8 5 (11.90%) Network Virtualisation
8 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
9 4 (9.52%) 5G NR

Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (38.10%) Simulink
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (7.14%) InVision
3 3 (7.14%) Sketch
4 1 (2.38%) AutoCAD
4 1 (2.38%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.52%) Power Platform
2 2 (4.76%) IaaS
2 2 (4.76%) PaaS
2 2 (4.76%) SaaS
3 1 (2.38%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.43%) 4G
1 9 (21.43%) 5G
2 8 (19.05%) Firewall
3 5 (11.90%) Network Security
3 5 (11.90%) VPN
4 4 (9.52%) 3GPP
4 4 (9.52%) 5G NR
4 4 (9.52%) LTE
4 4 (9.52%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (7.14%) BGP
6 2 (4.76%) MPLS
6 2 (4.76%) RSVP
7 1 (2.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (2.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (2.38%) LAN
7 1 (2.38%) NetScreen
7 1 (2.38%) OSPF
7 1 (2.38%) WAN
7 1 (2.38%) Wireless
7 1 (2.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) Power BI
1 4 (9.52%) Tableau
General
1 5 (11.90%) Electronics
1 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
1 5 (11.90%) Telecoms
2 3 (7.14%) Automotive
2 3 (7.14%) Law
3 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.38%) Finance
4 1 (2.38%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 17 (40.48%) FPGA
2 16 (38.10%) Verilog
2 16 (38.10%) VHDL
3 2 (4.76%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) FPGA Design
2 16 (38.10%) Signal Processing
2 16 (38.10%) UVM
3 8 (19.05%) Network Design
4 5 (11.90%) Load Balancing
4 5 (11.90%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (9.52%) Analytics
5 4 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (9.52%) Network Architecture
5 4 (9.52%) Roadmaps
6 2 (4.76%) Decision-Making
6 2 (4.76%) Design Thinking
6 2 (4.76%) ITIL
6 2 (4.76%) Service Delivery
6 2 (4.76%) Service Design
6 2 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (4.76%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 1 (2.38%) Design for Manufacturing
7 1 (2.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (2.38%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 16 (38.10%) C
1 16 (38.10%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (38.10%) Degree
2 13 (30.95%) Security Cleared
3 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (40.48%) Xilinx
2 16 (38.10%) Intel
2 16 (38.10%) Microsemi
3 6 (14.29%) Cisco
3 6 (14.29%) Juniper
4 5 (11.90%) Mentor Graphics
5 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.76%) Nokia
7 1 (2.38%) F5
7 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.38%) Infoblox
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