Design Engineer Jobs in England

Design Engineer
UK > England

The median Design Engineer salary in England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 629 739
Rank change year-on-year +83 +110 +156
Permanent jobs requiring a Design Engineer 128 203 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.24% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.25% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 56 165 80
10th Percentile £43,750 £25,850 £37,250
25th Percentile £48,869 £40,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -25.38% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £74,375 £67,500 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% -

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 43,811 81,137 82,278
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 94.49% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24,794 60,555 52,271
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,280 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,443 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.41% -12.50% -

Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Engineer in England

Design Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Design Engineer in England

Design Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Engineer in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Design Engineer in England

Design 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 Design Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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 +86 49 £55,000 +15.79% 52
South West +114 27 £55,000 +10.00% 48
East of England +25 18 £55,000 +10.00% 53
Midlands +56 17 £47,500 -1.04% 22
East Midlands +45 16 £47,500 +18.75% 13
North of England +21 15 £50,055 +2.15% 31
North West -17 12 £50,055 +5.38% 18
London +105 5 £76,750 +17.62% 41
Yorkshire +44 2 - - 9
West Midlands +54 1 £42,500 -45.16% 8
North East +51 1 £60,000 - 4
Design Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, Design 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 Design Engineer in the job title.

1 82 (64.06%) Degree
2 77 (60.16%) Electronics
3 59 (46.09%) Schematic Capture
4 55 (42.97%) Manufacturing
5 54 (42.19%) EMC
6 45 (35.16%) HND
7 43 (33.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 39 (30.47%) Project Planning
9 29 (22.66%) Firmware
10 27 (21.09%) Requirements Analysis
11 25 (19.53%) Prototyping
12 24 (18.75%) Embedded Firmware
13 20 (15.63%) Social Skills
14 17 (13.28%) Optoelectronics
14 17 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (13.28%) Stress Analysis
15 11 (8.59%) Validation
15 11 (8.59%) Master's Degree
16 10 (7.81%) Analogue Electronics
16 10 (7.81%) Python
16 10 (7.81%) SQL
16 10 (7.81%) Git
17 9 (7.03%) Oracle
17 9 (7.03%) Collaborative Working
17 9 (7.03%) IoT
18 8 (6.25%) C
18 8 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
18 8 (6.25%) CAD
18 8 (6.25%) Security Cleared
19 7 (5.47%) SC Cleared

Design 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 4 (3.13%) Apache
1 4 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.56%) Kinematics
Applications
1 3 (2.34%) AutoCAD
2 2 (1.56%) Autodesk Inventor
2 2 (1.56%) CATIA
2 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.56%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.56%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.78%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.13%) Amazon S3
1 4 (3.13%) Power Platform
2 2 (1.56%) Azure
3 1 (0.78%) Azure AI
3 1 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (0.78%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.13%) 2G
1 4 (3.13%) 3G
1 4 (3.13%) 4G
1 4 (3.13%) 5G
1 4 (3.13%) TETRA
1 4 (3.13%) Wireless
2 3 (2.34%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.34%) MQTT
3 2 (1.56%) BGP
3 2 (1.56%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (1.56%) DMVPN
3 2 (1.56%) EIGRP
3 2 (1.56%) OSPF
3 2 (1.56%) RFID
4 1 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.78%) Modbus
4 1 (0.78%) Profibus
4 1 (0.78%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.13%) Big Data
1 4 (3.13%) Data Lake
1 4 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (3.13%) Parquet
1 4 (3.13%) Power BI
2 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (7.81%) Git
2 7 (5.47%) ClearCase
2 7 (5.47%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.78%) PetaLinux
General
1 77 (60.16%) Electronics
2 55 (42.97%) Manufacturing
3 43 (33.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (15.63%) Social Skills
5 6 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.69%) Finance
6 4 (3.13%) Marketing
6 4 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.34%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Advertising
9 1 (0.78%) Automotive
9 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.47%) XML
1 7 (5.47%) XSD
2 4 (3.13%) REST
3 3 (2.34%) CSS
3 3 (2.34%) HTML
3 3 (2.34%) Node.js
4 1 (0.78%) Flash
4 1 (0.78%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.28%) Optoelectronics
2 10 (7.81%) Analogue Electronics
3 9 (7.03%) IoT
4 7 (5.47%) FPGA
5 6 (4.69%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (3.91%) VHDL
7 4 (3.13%) Driving Licence
7 4 (3.13%) SCADA
8 3 (2.34%) Verilog
9 2 (1.56%) 3D Printing
9 2 (1.56%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.56%) ARM Cortex
9 2 (1.56%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.56%) Robotics
10 1 (0.78%) GNSS
10 1 (0.78%) Home Automation
10 1 (0.78%) Life Science
10 1 (0.78%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.78%) Android
1 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (0.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (46.09%) Schematic Capture
2 39 (30.47%) Project Planning
3 27 (21.09%) Requirements Analysis
4 25 (19.53%) Prototyping
5 17 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (13.28%) Stress Analysis
6 11 (8.59%) Validation
7 9 (7.03%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (6.25%) CAD
9 7 (5.47%) Coaching
9 7 (5.47%) UML
10 6 (4.69%) Project Delivery
10 6 (4.69%) Project Management
10 6 (4.69%) Rapid Prototyping
11 5 (3.91%) Data Governance
11 5 (3.91%) Design for Manufacturing
11 5 (3.91%) Machine Learning
11 5 (3.91%) Software Engineering
11 5 (3.91%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.81%) Python
1 10 (7.81%) SQL
2 8 (6.25%) C
3 4 (3.13%) C++
3 4 (3.13%) PL/SQL
4 3 (2.34%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.34%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.78%) C#
5 1 (0.78%) Embedded C
5 1 (0.78%) Embedded C++
5 1 (0.78%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.78%) Rust
5 1 (0.78%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 82 (64.06%) Degree
2 45 (35.16%) HND
3 11 (8.59%) Master's Degree
4 8 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.47%) HNC
5 7 (5.47%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.56%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.78%) CCNP
8 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.91%) Accessibility
1 5 (3.91%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.34%) WCAG
3 1 (0.78%) ISO 13485
3 1 (0.78%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 29 (22.66%) Firmware
2 24 (18.75%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.34%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 54 (42.19%) EMC
2 9 (7.03%) Oracle
3 3 (2.34%) Cisco
3 3 (2.34%) Fortinet
3 3 (2.34%) SAP
4 2 (1.56%) Autodesk
4 2 (1.56%) Juniper
4 2 (1.56%) McAfee
4 2 (1.56%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.78%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (0.78%) Altera
5 1 (0.78%) Cadence
5 1 (0.78%) F5
5 1 (0.78%) Freescale
5 1 (0.78%) Meraki
5 1 (0.78%) Riverbed
5 1 (0.78%) Rockwell
5 1 (0.78%) Xilinx
5 1 (0.78%) Zscaler