Associate Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Associate Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Associate Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 759 734
Rank change year-on-year +238 -25 +59
Permanent jobs requiring an Associate Engineer 50 6 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.008% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.009% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 13
10th Percentile £45,147 - £24,146
25th Percentile £52,574 - £28,954
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £30,957
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.19%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £45,000
90th Percentile - - £50,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £30,728
% change year-on-year +4.17% +95.26% -34.62%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Associate Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Associate Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Associate Engineer in the UK excluding London

Associate Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Associate Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Associate Engineer in the UK excluding London

Associate Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Associate Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Associate Engineer in the UK excluding London

Associate Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Associate Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 East +113 27 £60,000 - 42
Midlands - 15 £45,147 - 39
East Midlands - 13 - - 12
North of England - 8 £65,000 - 45
North West - 8 £65,000 - 22
East of England +44 3 - - 25
West Midlands - 2 £45,147 - 25
Associate Engineer
UK

Associate Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Associate 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 UK excluding London region featuring Associate Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (90.00%) Degree
2 39 (78.00%) Project Planning
2 39 (78.00%) Schematic Capture
2 39 (78.00%) HND
2 39 (78.00%) EMC
2 39 (78.00%) Electronics
2 39 (78.00%) Manufacturing
2 39 (78.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (12.00%) Finance
4 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (8.00%) AutoCAD
6 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (6.00%) Java
6 3 (6.00%) Microservices
7 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.00%) User Experience
7 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.00%) Presales
7 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
7 2 (4.00%) Kafka
7 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.00%) REST
7 2 (4.00%) Spring Batch
7 2 (4.00%) JIRA
7 2 (4.00%) Computer Science
7 2 (4.00%) Release Management
7 2 (4.00%) Unit Testing
7 2 (4.00%) Git

Associate Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) AutoCAD
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) HTTP
2 1 (2.00%) OpenScape
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Git
1 2 (4.00%) JIRA
1 2 (4.00%) JUnit
General
1 39 (78.00%) Electronics
1 39 (78.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 39 (78.00%) Manufacturing
2 6 (12.00%) Finance
3 1 (2.00%) Police
3 1 (2.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (4.00%) CSS
1 2 (4.00%) gRPC
1 2 (4.00%) HTML
1 2 (4.00%) Kafka
1 2 (4.00%) REST
1 2 (4.00%) RESTful
1 2 (4.00%) Spring
1 2 (4.00%) Spring Batch
1 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Windows
1 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (78.00%) Project Planning
1 39 (78.00%) Schematic Capture
2 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (6.00%) Microservices
4 2 (4.00%) Agile
4 2 (4.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (4.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (4.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (4.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (4.00%) Creative Thinking
4 2 (4.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (4.00%) OOP
4 2 (4.00%) Presales
4 2 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (4.00%) Release Management
4 2 (4.00%) Scrum
4 2 (4.00%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (4.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (4.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.00%) Java
2 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 45 (90.00%) Degree
2 39 (78.00%) HND
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Firmware
1 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 39 (78.00%) EMC
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.00%) Bloomberg
3 2 (4.00%) Dell
4 1 (2.00%) VMware