Project Engineer Jobs in the South East

Project Engineer
England > South East

The median Project Engineer salary in the South East is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 292 356
Rank change year-on-year +7 +64 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a Project Engineer 27 108 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.28% 0.62% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.65% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 10 70 19
10th Percentile £32,475 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,125 £40,000 £44,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £75,625 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £62,750 -
England median annual salary £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% +5.56%

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 8,376 16,502 12,665
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.93% 94.09% 90.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,469 11,730 7,982
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,613 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Project Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Engineer in the South East

Project Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Project Engineer in the South East

Project Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Project Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Project Engineer in the South East

Project 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 Project Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Hampshire +45 10 £67,500 +50.00% 9
Thames Valley +49 7 £75,000 +76.47% 12
Surrey +42 7 - - 10
Oxfordshire +34 3 £75,000 +87.50% 1
Berkshire +25 3 - - 9
East Sussex - 2 £35,000 - 8
Middlesex - 2 - -
Kent +34 1 - - 2
Buckinghamshire +23 1 - - 2
Project Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Project 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 Project Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (37.04%) Broadband
1 10 (37.04%) MPEG
1 10 (37.04%) AutoCAD
1 10 (37.04%) DVB
1 10 (37.04%) Technical Architecture
1 10 (37.04%) Procure-to-Pay
1 10 (37.04%) Post-Production
2 7 (25.93%) Project Management
3 6 (22.22%) VMware
3 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 6 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (18.52%) Systems Engineering
4 5 (18.52%) Roadmaps
4 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
4 5 (18.52%) Kafka
4 5 (18.52%) API Integration
4 5 (18.52%) Def Stans
4 5 (18.52%) Degree
4 5 (18.52%) Aerospace
4 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
5 4 (14.81%) CRM
5 4 (14.81%) Cisco
5 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.81%) Data Analytics
5 4 (14.81%) Analytics
5 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
5 4 (14.81%) Project Delivery
6 3 (11.11%) Power Platform

Project 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 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (37.04%) AutoCAD
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) Mimecast
2 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (37.04%) Broadband
1 10 (37.04%) DVB
2 1 (3.70%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) Intelligent Network
2 1 (3.70%) Multicast
2 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
General
1 5 (18.52%) Aerospace
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Retail
4 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) XML
2 1 (3.70%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) MPEG
2 3 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (3.70%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Debian
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
1 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Post-Production
1 10 (37.04%) Procure-to-Pay
1 10 (37.04%) Technical Architecture
2 7 (25.93%) Project Management
3 6 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (18.52%) API Integration
4 5 (18.52%) Roadmaps
4 5 (18.52%) Systems Engineering
5 4 (14.81%) Analytics
5 4 (14.81%) CRM
5 4 (14.81%) Data Analytics
5 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.81%) Project Delivery
6 3 (11.11%) Client Onboarding
6 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (11.11%) Integration Testing
6 3 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (11.11%) Process Improvement
6 3 (11.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) Bash
1 1 (3.70%) Python
1 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (18.52%) Degree
3 3 (11.11%) CISSP
4 2 (7.41%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (3.70%) CCNP
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.70%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) Def Stans
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) VMware
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.81%) Cisco
4 3 (11.11%) Meraki
5 1 (3.70%) Apple
5 1 (3.70%) Dell
5 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.70%) HP
5 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.70%) SAP
5 1 (3.70%) Sophos
5 1 (3.70%) Veeam