Senior Design Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Design Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Design Engineer salary in England is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 661 810 851
Rank change year-on-year +149 +41 +261
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Design Engineer 30 30 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.061% 0.035% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.037% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 11 16 14
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,188 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.72%
75th Percentile £82,500 £65,250 £62,500
90th Percentile - £67,500 £73,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -27.71%

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 44,258 81,164 82,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.65% 94.49% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 24,638 60,585 52,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £71,650 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.57% -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 12 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 12 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 +125 20 £65,000 +30.00% 14
North of England +50 4 - - 10
South East +94 3 £55,000 -8.33% 15
Yorkshire +63 2 - - 4
North West -2 2 - - 5
London +112 1 £83,500 +31.50% 14
Midlands +68 1 £57,500 +15.00% 8
East of England +46 1 - - 17
East Midlands +42 1 £57,500 -11.54% 6
Senior Design Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 21 (70.00%) Electronics
2 20 (66.67%) Degree
3 19 (63.33%) Schematic Capture
3 19 (63.33%) Firmware
4 17 (56.67%) Requirements Analysis
4 17 (56.67%) Stress Analysis
4 17 (56.67%) Prototyping
4 17 (56.67%) Optoelectronics
4 17 (56.67%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (13.33%) TETRA
6 3 (10.00%) EMC
6 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
7 2 (6.67%) Systems Engineering
7 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
7 2 (6.67%) RFID
7 2 (6.67%) C
7 2 (6.67%) SCADA
7 2 (6.67%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Network Design
8 1 (3.33%) BIG-IP
8 1 (3.33%) FPGA
8 1 (3.33%) Life Science
8 1 (3.33%) Network Security
8 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
8 1 (3.33%) DNS

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 1 (3.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) TETRA
2 2 (6.67%) RFID
3 1 (3.33%) BIG-IP
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.33%) DNS
3 1 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (3.33%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) Network Security
General
1 21 (70.00%) Electronics
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 17 (56.67%) Optoelectronics
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.67%) SCADA
3 1 (3.33%) Analogue Electronics
3 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) FPGA
3 1 (3.33%) Life Science
3 1 (3.33%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) Schematic Capture
2 17 (56.67%) Prototyping
2 17 (56.67%) Requirements Analysis
2 17 (56.67%) Stress Analysis
3 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.67%) Systems Engineering
6 1 (3.33%) Architectural Design
6 1 (3.33%) Network Design
6 1 (3.33%) Network Monitoring
6 1 (3.33%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (3.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Chartered Engineer
2 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.33%) CCNP
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 19 (63.33%) Firmware
2 17 (56.67%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) EMC
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco
2 1 (3.33%) F5
2 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (3.33%) Meraki
2 1 (3.33%) Riverbed
2 1 (3.33%) Zscaler