Associate Engineer Jobs in England

Associate Engineer
UK > England

The median Associate Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 620 825 886
Rank change year-on-year +205 +61 +177
Permanent jobs requiring an Associate Engineer 55 10 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.012% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.012% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 22
10th Percentile £45,147 - £24,606
25th Percentile £52,574 - £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £30,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +96.72% -46.96%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £45,000
90th Percentile - - £52,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £30,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +96.72% -37.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 44,182 81,825 80,489
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.87% 94.55% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,287 60,848 51,240
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Associate Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Associate Engineer in England

Associate Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Associate Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Associate Engineer in England

Associate Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Associate Engineer in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Associate Engineer in England

Associate Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Associate Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +115 27 £60,000 - 38
Midlands - 15 £45,147 - 37
East Midlands - 13 - - 14
North West - 8 £65,000 - 22
North of England - 8 £65,000 - 45
London +119 5 - - 16
East of England +41 3 - - 25
West Midlands - 2 £45,147 - 21
Associate Engineer
UK

Associate Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Associate Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the England region featuring Associate Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (81.82%) Degree
2 43 (78.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 39 (70.91%) Project Planning
3 39 (70.91%) Schematic Capture
3 39 (70.91%) HND
3 39 (70.91%) EMC
3 39 (70.91%) Electronics
3 39 (70.91%) Manufacturing
4 10 (18.18%) Finance
5 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (9.09%) Agile
6 5 (9.09%) AutoCAD
7 4 (7.27%) Law
7 4 (7.27%) Java
7 4 (7.27%) Software Engineering
7 4 (7.27%) Git
7 4 (7.27%) TypeScript
7 4 (7.27%) Microservices
8 3 (5.45%) Banking
8 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
8 3 (5.45%) HTML
8 3 (5.45%) CSS
8 3 (5.45%) Python
8 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
8 3 (5.45%) CI/CD
8 3 (5.45%) Containerisation
8 3 (5.45%) Code Quality
9 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
9 2 (3.64%) Full-Stack Development

Associate Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (9.09%) AutoCAD
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.82%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (1.82%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (1.82%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (1.82%) AWS
1 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (1.82%) Azure
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) HTTP
2 1 (1.82%) OpenScape
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.82%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.82%) MySQL
2 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Git
2 2 (3.64%) JIRA
2 2 (3.64%) JUnit
3 1 (1.82%) rollup.js
3 1 (1.82%) Vite
General
1 43 (78.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 39 (70.91%) Electronics
2 39 (70.91%) Manufacturing
3 10 (18.18%) Finance
4 4 (7.27%) Law
5 3 (5.45%) Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Social Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Back Office
7 1 (1.82%) Front Office
7 1 (1.82%) Local Government
7 1 (1.82%) Marketing
7 1 (1.82%) Police
7 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.82%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.45%) CSS
1 3 (5.45%) HTML
2 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.64%) gRPC
2 2 (3.64%) Kafka
2 2 (3.64%) React
2 2 (3.64%) REST
2 2 (3.64%) RESTful
2 2 (3.64%) Spring
2 2 (3.64%) Spring Batch
2 2 (3.64%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.82%) JSON Web Signature
3 1 (1.82%) JWT
3 1 (1.82%) LangChain
3 1 (1.82%) Next.js
3 1 (1.82%) OAuth
3 1 (1.82%) OpenID
3 1 (1.82%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.82%) RxJS
3 1 (1.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.64%) Data Centre
1 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.82%) AI Agents
2 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.82%) Clustering
2 1 (1.82%) NHS
2 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) Windows
1 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (70.91%) Project Planning
1 39 (70.91%) Schematic Capture
2 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (9.09%) Agile
3 5 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (7.27%) Microservices
4 4 (7.27%) Software Engineering
5 3 (5.45%) CI/CD
5 3 (5.45%) Code Quality
5 3 (5.45%) Containerisation
6 2 (3.64%) Analytics
6 2 (3.64%) Community of Practice
6 2 (3.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (3.64%) Creative Thinking
6 2 (3.64%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (3.64%) Machine Learning
6 2 (3.64%) Operational Stability
6 2 (3.64%) Presales
6 2 (3.64%) Systems Engineering
6 2 (3.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.27%) Java
1 4 (7.27%) TypeScript
2 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.45%) Python
3 1 (1.82%) C++
3 1 (1.82%) Kotlin
3 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (81.82%) Degree
2 39 (70.91%) HND
3 1 (1.82%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Firmware
1 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (70.91%) EMC
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.64%) Bloomberg
3 2 (3.64%) Dell
4 1 (1.82%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.82%) VMware