Senior Design Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Design Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Design Engineer salary in England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 638 803 836
Rank change year-on-year +165 +33 +294
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Design Engineer 25 31 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.052% 0.036% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.038% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 7 16 16
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £48,125 £49,188 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -33.73%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,350 £67,500 £74,375
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -30.72%

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 43,876 81,927 80,312
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.56% 91.51%
Number of salaries quoted 23,003 60,951 51,092
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,785 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,313
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% -

Senior Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Design Engineer in England

Senior Design Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Design Engineer in England

Senior Design Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Design Engineer in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Design Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Design Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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 West +117 13 £52,500 +5.00% 24
North of England +29 4 - - 26
South East +92 3 £55,000 -8.33% 38
London +108 2 £83,500 +31.50% 15
Yorkshire +54 2 - - 11
North West -4 2 - - 11
Midlands +70 1 £57,500 +15.00% 23
East of England +38 1 - - 35
East Midlands +36 1 £57,500 -11.54% 12
Senior Design Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Design Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (60.00%) Electronics
2 14 (56.00%) Degree
3 13 (52.00%) Schematic Capture
3 13 (52.00%) Firmware
4 11 (44.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 11 (44.00%) Stress Analysis
4 11 (44.00%) Prototyping
4 11 (44.00%) Optoelectronics
4 11 (44.00%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) TETRA
6 3 (12.00%) EMC
6 3 (12.00%) DNS
6 3 (12.00%) Cisco
6 3 (12.00%) Network Design
6 3 (12.00%) Project Delivery
7 2 (8.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (8.00%) Business Case
7 2 (8.00%) Systems Engineering
7 2 (8.00%) Roadmaps
7 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.00%) Business Strategy
7 2 (8.00%) YANG
7 2 (8.00%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
7 2 (8.00%) SCADA
7 2 (8.00%) YAML

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) Akamai
2 1 (4.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) TETRA
2 3 (12.00%) DNS
3 2 (8.00%) BGP
3 2 (8.00%) Broadband
3 2 (8.00%) HTTP
3 2 (8.00%) IOS XR
3 2 (8.00%) RFID
3 2 (8.00%) SSL
3 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.00%) BIG-IP
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (4.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (4.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (4.00%) Firewall
4 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
General
1 15 (60.00%) Electronics
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Jinja
1 2 (8.00%) YAML
1 2 (8.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) Optoelectronics
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (8.00%) SCADA
3 1 (4.00%) Analogue Electronics
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) FPGA
3 1 (4.00%) Life Science
3 1 (4.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Schematic Capture
2 11 (44.00%) Prototyping
2 11 (44.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 11 (44.00%) Stress Analysis
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (12.00%) Network Design
4 3 (12.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (8.00%) Business Case
5 2 (8.00%) Business Strategy
5 2 (8.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (8.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (8.00%) DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (8.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (8.00%) Systems Engineering
6 1 (4.00%) Architectural Design
6 1 (4.00%) Network Monitoring
6 1 (4.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (4.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) C
1 2 (8.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Chartered Engineer
2 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.00%) CCNP
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 13 (52.00%) Firmware
2 11 (44.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Ansible
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Cisco
1 3 (12.00%) EMC
2 2 (8.00%) Nokia
3 1 (4.00%) F5
3 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.00%) Meraki
3 1 (4.00%) Riverbed
3 1 (4.00%) Zscaler