Senior Design Engineer Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Senior Design Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Senior Design Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Design Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.18% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
England median daily rate £550 £480 £405
% change year-on-year +14.58% +18.52% -43.16%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,618 1,537 1,334
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 92.31% 90.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,549 1,009 789
10th Percentile £350 £235 £263
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.31%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 40 55
10th Percentile £13.71 £17.48 £14.79
25th Percentile £16.91 £18.78 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £23.79 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -1.62% +13.47%
75th Percentile £34.77 £81.25 £40.63
90th Percentile £36.61 - £48.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.70%

Senior Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Senior Design Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Senior Design Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Design Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Design Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Senior Design Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Design Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Design Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Senior Design Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 October 2026. 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
South Yorkshire - 5 £550 - 1
Senior Design Engineer
England

Senior Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 9 October 2026, 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 Yorkshire region featuring Senior Design Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (40.00%) BGP
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Arista
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Calico
3 1 (20.00%) Cilium
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) NaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Thinking

Senior Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) BGP
2 1 (20.00%) Calico
2 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (20.00%) NaaS
2 1 (20.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 5 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 5 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Go
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Cilium
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Arista
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk