Design Engineer Jobs in the South East

Design Engineer
England > South East

The median Design Engineer salary in the South East is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 316 438
Rank change year-on-year +15 +122 -67
Permanent jobs requiring a Design Engineer 53 45 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.35% 0.39% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.42% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 45 30 58
10th Percentile £24,000 £36,786 £42,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £39,843 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £68,750 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +17.02% +30.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £84,375
90th Percentile £80,000 - £93,750
England median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% -11.54% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 14,224 10,599 21,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 91.47% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 7,232 12,510
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Engineer in the South East

Design Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Design Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Design Engineer in the South East

Design Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Design Engineer in the South East

Design Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Thames Valley +27 24 £60,000 +43.33% 16
Hampshire -16 22 £50,000 +25.00% 4
Berkshire +11 12 £80,000 +91.11% 4
Buckinghamshire - 8 £24,000 - 8
Surrey -28 5 £37,500 -46.43% 1
Oxfordshire -9 4 £47,500 +5.56% 4
Kent -12 1 - - 7
East Sussex - 1 - - 2
Design Engineer
England

Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 South East region featuring Design Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (20.75%) FPGA
1 11 (20.75%) Degree
1 11 (20.75%) Juniper
1 11 (20.75%) Firmware
1 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
3 9 (16.98%) Network Design
4 8 (15.09%) Manufacturing
4 8 (15.09%) BGP
5 7 (13.21%) JNCIP
5 7 (13.21%) JNCIE
5 7 (13.21%) MPLS
5 7 (13.21%) Nokia
5 7 (13.21%) Validation
5 7 (13.21%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (11.32%) FPGA Design
6 6 (11.32%) Software Engineering
7 5 (9.43%) Kalman Filter
7 5 (9.43%) 4G
7 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
7 5 (9.43%) Wireless
7 5 (9.43%) Telecoms
7 5 (9.43%) C++
7 5 (9.43%) Siemens
8 4 (7.55%) CAD
8 4 (7.55%) Linux
8 4 (7.55%) Cisco
8 4 (7.55%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (7.55%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (7.55%) DV Cleared

Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (3.77%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (7.55%) SOLIDWORKS
2 3 (5.66%) Fusion 360
2 3 (5.66%) Siemens NX
3 1 (1.89%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.89%) OrCAD
3 1 (1.89%) Simulink
3 1 (1.89%) SketchUp
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.77%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.09%) BGP
2 7 (13.21%) MPLS
3 5 (9.43%) 4G
3 5 (9.43%) Wireless
4 2 (3.77%) Asterisk PBX
4 2 (3.77%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (3.77%) VoIP
5 1 (1.89%) 3G
5 1 (1.89%) DMVPN
5 1 (1.89%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.89%) Firewall
5 1 (1.89%) GPRS
5 1 (1.89%) Modbus
5 1 (1.89%) OSPF
5 1 (1.89%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Eclipse
1 1 (1.89%) GDB
1 1 (1.89%) JIRA
1 1 (1.89%) Subversion
1 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Manufacturing
3 5 (9.43%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.77%) Electronics
5 1 (1.89%) Finance
5 1 (1.89%) Law
5 1 (1.89%) Marketing
5 1 (1.89%) Military
5 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.89%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) FreeSWITCH
1 2 (3.77%) WebRTC
2 1 (1.89%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.75%) FPGA
2 3 (5.66%) 3D Printing
2 3 (5.66%) Robotics
3 1 (1.89%) Acoustics
3 1 (1.89%) Analogue Electronics
3 1 (1.89%) ARM Cortex
3 1 (1.89%) GNSS
3 1 (1.89%) IoT
3 1 (1.89%) NB-IoT
3 1 (1.89%) Tandem
3 1 (1.89%) Verilog
3 1 (1.89%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (16.98%) Network Design
2 7 (13.21%) Validation
3 6 (11.32%) FPGA Design
3 6 (11.32%) Software Engineering
4 5 (9.43%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (7.55%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (7.55%) CAD
5 4 (7.55%) Feasibility Study
5 4 (7.55%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (7.55%) Prototyping
5 4 (7.55%) Software Testing
6 3 (5.66%) Design for Manufacturing
6 3 (5.66%) Open Source
7 2 (3.77%) Schematic Capture
8 1 (1.89%) Computer Science
8 1 (1.89%) Digital Marketing
8 1 (1.89%) Digital Signal Processing
8 1 (1.89%) Machine Learning
8 1 (1.89%) Signal Processing
8 1 (1.89%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.43%) C++
2 3 (5.66%) Python
3 2 (3.77%) C#
4 1 (1.89%) Assembly Language
4 1 (1.89%) C
4 1 (1.89%) Embedded C
4 1 (1.89%) Embedded C++
4 1 (1.89%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 11 (20.75%) Degree
2 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
3 7 (13.21%) JNCIE
3 7 (13.21%) JNCIP
4 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
5 4 (7.55%) DV Cleared
5 4 (7.55%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.77%) CCNA
6 2 (3.77%) CCNP
6 2 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) IEC 61131
1 1 (1.89%) JTAG
System Software
1 11 (20.75%) Firmware
2 7 (13.21%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (3.77%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) Juniper
2 7 (13.21%) Nokia
3 5 (9.43%) Siemens
4 4 (7.55%) Cisco
5 1 (1.89%) EMC
5 1 (1.89%) Facebook
5 1 (1.89%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.89%) SAP