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 to 5 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
5 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 355 424
Rank change year-on-year +29 +69 -108
Permanent jobs requiring a Design Engineer 64 62 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.38% 0.42% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.46% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 53 40 55
10th Percentile £24,000 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £57,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +40.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 - £93,750
England median annual salary £49,250 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -24.23% - +18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 15,676 13,491 19,184
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.50% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11,332 8,454 12,614
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 5 May 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 5 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
Hampshire +5 32 £50,000 -16.67% 26
Thames Valley +30 20 £24,000 -54.29% 44
Buckinghamshire -4 14 £24,000 -69.03% 16
Surrey -22 7 £55,000 -21.43% 17
Berkshire +26 5 £80,000 - 16
Kent -10 5 - - 15
Oxfordshire +11 1 £62,500 +19.05% 12
Design Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 20 (31.25%) Degree
2 19 (29.69%) Social Skills
3 16 (25.00%) Firmware
4 14 (21.88%) FPGA
5 10 (15.63%) Security Cleared
5 10 (15.63%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (14.06%) Manufacturing
7 8 (12.50%) FPGA Design
8 7 (10.94%) Telecoms
8 7 (10.94%) C
8 7 (10.94%) Juniper
9 6 (9.38%) Wireless
9 6 (9.38%) Electronics
9 6 (9.38%) 4G
9 6 (9.38%) Prototyping
10 5 (7.81%) Kalman Filter
10 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
10 5 (7.81%) Siemens
10 5 (7.81%) BGP
10 5 (7.81%) Network Design
10 5 (7.81%) Software Engineering
10 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
11 4 (6.25%) EMC
11 4 (6.25%) Nokia
11 4 (6.25%) MPLS
11 4 (6.25%) Validation
11 4 (6.25%) DV Cleared
11 4 (6.25%) Software Testing
11 4 (6.25%) JNCIP
11 4 (6.25%) JNCIE

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:

Applications
1 2 (3.13%) AutoCAD
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.13%) Revit
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.56%) OrCAD
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) 4G
1 6 (9.38%) Wireless
2 5 (7.81%) BGP
3 4 (6.25%) MPLS
4 3 (4.69%) Bluetooth
5 2 (3.13%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (1.56%) 5G
6 1 (1.56%) 5G NR
6 1 (1.56%) DMVPN
6 1 (1.56%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.56%) GPRS
6 1 (1.56%) GSM
6 1 (1.56%) LTE
6 1 (1.56%) Microwave Backhaul
6 1 (1.56%) Mobile Backhaul
6 1 (1.56%) Modbus
6 1 (1.56%) OSPF
6 1 (1.56%) RFID
6 1 (1.56%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (1.56%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Subversion
2 2 (3.13%) GDB
2 2 (3.13%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.56%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) JIRA
3 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.06%) Manufacturing
3 7 (10.94%) Telecoms
4 6 (9.38%) Electronics
5 2 (3.13%) Finance
5 2 (3.13%) Marketing
5 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.56%) Military
6 1 (1.56%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.56%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.88%) FPGA
2 2 (3.13%) Analogue Electronics
2 2 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (3.13%) Tandem
2 2 (3.13%) VHDL
3 1 (1.56%) Acoustics
3 1 (1.56%) ARM Cortex
3 1 (1.56%) IoT
3 1 (1.56%) NB-IoT
3 1 (1.56%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (1.56%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (12.50%) FPGA Design
2 6 (9.38%) Prototyping
3 5 (7.81%) Kalman Filter
3 5 (7.81%) Network Design
3 5 (7.81%) Software Engineering
4 4 (6.25%) Feasibility Study
4 4 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (6.25%) Software Testing
4 4 (6.25%) Validation
5 3 (4.69%) CAD
5 3 (4.69%) Schematic Capture
6 2 (3.13%) Agile
6 2 (3.13%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (3.13%) Computer Science
6 2 (3.13%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (3.13%) Information Security
6 2 (3.13%) Mentoring
6 2 (3.13%) Programme Management
7 1 (1.56%) Electronic Design Automation
7 1 (1.56%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.94%) C
2 3 (4.69%) C#
2 3 (4.69%) C++
2 3 (4.69%) Embedded C
3 1 (1.56%) Assembly Language
3 1 (1.56%) Embedded C++
3 1 (1.56%) MATLAB
3 1 (1.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (31.25%) Degree
2 10 (15.63%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.25%) JNCIE
4 4 (6.25%) JNCIP
4 4 (6.25%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.13%) CCNA
5 2 (3.13%) CCNP
5 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) ISO 9001
2 2 (3.13%) ISO 14001
3 1 (1.56%) IEC 61131
3 1 (1.56%) JTAG
System Software
1 16 (25.00%) Firmware
2 10 (15.63%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) Ansible
1 1 (1.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (10.94%) Juniper
2 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.81%) Siemens
3 4 (6.25%) EMC
3 4 (6.25%) Nokia
4 3 (4.69%) Cisco
5 2 (3.13%) Facebook
5 2 (3.13%) SAP
6 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.56%) Xilinx
142 Design Engineer jobs in the South East