Research Engineer Jobs in England

Research Engineer
UK > England

The median Research Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 766 869 1079
Rank change year-on-year +103 +210 -229
Permanent jobs requiring a Research Engineer 56 51 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.065% 0.058% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.063% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 46 24 28
10th Percentile £35,250 £48,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,563 £63,281 £33,465
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £75,000 £49,167
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +52.54% -12.59%
75th Percentile £61,000 £100,000 £86,825
90th Percentile £72,500 £102,500 £99,350
UK median annual salary £58,000 £75,000 £49,167
% change year-on-year -22.67% +52.54% -19.73%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 81,669 80,804 129,735
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.51% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 60,824 51,446 74,737
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Research Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Research Engineer in England

Research Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Research Engineer in England

Research Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Research Engineer in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Research Engineer in England

Research 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 Research Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 39 £58,000 - 10
North of England +52 6 £40,138 +3.60% 2
North West - 6 £40,138 - 2
London +107 4 £87,500 +25.00% 7
South West -40 4 £37,500 -50.00% 3
West Midlands +15 2 - - 1
Midlands -6 2 - - 3
East of England +11 1 £85,000 -10.53% 6
Research Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Research 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 Research Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (60.71%) Python
2 27 (48.21%) Degree
3 24 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 21 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (30.36%) Computer Science
6 16 (28.57%) Linux
6 16 (28.57%) Algorithms
7 14 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (23.21%) Data Science
8 13 (23.21%) Open Source
9 12 (21.43%) Physics
10 11 (19.64%) C++
10 11 (19.64%) Bash
10 11 (19.64%) Master's Degree
11 10 (17.86%) Mentoring
11 10 (17.86%) Coaching
11 10 (17.86%) Data Engineering
11 10 (17.86%) Analytics
11 10 (17.86%) Data Quality
11 10 (17.86%) Data Modelling
11 10 (17.86%) Red Team
11 10 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (16.07%) Mathematics
12 9 (16.07%) Artificial Intelligence
12 9 (16.07%) Machine Learning
12 9 (16.07%) IoT
13 8 (14.29%) PhD
14 7 (12.50%) Fortran
14 7 (12.50%) Microsoft
14 7 (12.50%) C

Research 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 6 (10.71%) ArcGIS
2 4 (7.14%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.14%) Amazon S3
1 4 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (1.79%) Azure
2 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) Modbus
1 3 (5.36%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) GIS
1 6 (10.71%) MySQL
1 6 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (10.71%) Relational Database
1 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.93%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (8.93%) MongoDB
2 5 (8.93%) NoSQL
2 5 (8.93%) Redis
General
1 10 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.36%) Finance
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Law
4 2 (3.57%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.71%) .NET
1 6 (10.71%) .NET Core
2 5 (8.93%) AngularJS
2 5 (8.93%) ASP.NET
2 5 (8.93%) Blazor
2 5 (8.93%) CSS
2 5 (8.93%) GeoJSON
2 5 (8.93%) HTML
2 5 (8.93%) HTML5
2 5 (8.93%) JSON
2 5 (8.93%) Node.js
2 5 (8.93%) PostGIS
2 5 (8.93%) React
2 5 (8.93%) RESTful
2 5 (8.93%) Svelte
2 5 (8.93%) Vue
2 5 (8.93%) XML
3 4 (7.14%) GeoTools
3 4 (7.14%) Leaflet
3 4 (7.14%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 9 (16.07%) IoT
3 4 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.14%) Robotics
4 3 (5.36%) CAN bus
4 3 (5.36%) NHS
4 3 (5.36%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (3.57%) Mixed Reality
5 2 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.79%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.79%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.57%) Linux
2 7 (12.50%) Unix
3 5 (8.93%) Windows
4 4 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 21 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (30.36%) Computer Science
4 14 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (23.21%) Data Science
5 13 (23.21%) Open Source
6 12 (21.43%) Physics
7 10 (17.86%) Analytics
7 10 (17.86%) Coaching
7 10 (17.86%) Data Engineering
7 10 (17.86%) Data Modelling
7 10 (17.86%) Mentoring
7 10 (17.86%) Red Team
8 9 (16.07%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (16.07%) Machine Learning
8 9 (16.07%) Mathematics
9 7 (12.50%) Parallel Programming
9 7 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
9 7 (12.50%) SDLC
9 7 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (60.71%) Python
2 11 (19.64%) Bash
2 11 (19.64%) C++
3 7 (12.50%) C
3 7 (12.50%) Fortran
4 6 (10.71%) C#
4 6 (10.71%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.36%) Rust
6 2 (3.57%) Go
6 2 (3.57%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 27 (48.21%) Degree
2 11 (19.64%) Master's Degree
3 8 (14.29%) PhD
4 7 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (8.93%) Docker
2 4 (7.14%) NFS
2 4 (7.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 4 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.14%) Ansible
2 4 (7.14%) Grafana
2 4 (7.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.71%) Oracle
3 5 (8.93%) ESRI
4 4 (7.14%) VMware