Design Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Design Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Design Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 565 555
Rank change year-on-year +118 -10 +95
Permanent jobs requiring a Design Engineer 136 210 187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.29% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.31% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 53 171 79
10th Percentile £43,750 £26,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -26.15% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,000 £67,500 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -25.38% -

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 35,201 68,043 52,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 94.85% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 17,750 48,018 29,945
10th Percentile £26,929 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -6.24% +6.65%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Design Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Design Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Design 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 Design Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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 +74 48 £56,250 +12.50% 133
South West +104 24 £55,000 +10.00% 109
North of England +11 18 £50,055 +0.11% 97
Midlands +45 17 £47,500 - 70
East Midlands +29 17 £47,500 +18.75% 32
East of England +25 17 £55,000 +10.00% 111
North West -16 15 £50,055 +5.38% 47
Wales - 11 £50,000 - 22
Scotland +117 3 £47,500 -17.39% 49
Yorkshire +42 2 - - 31
North East +44 1 £60,000 - 19
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3
Design Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Design Engineer in the job title.

1 82 (60.29%) Degree
2 76 (55.88%) Electronics
3 59 (43.38%) Schematic Capture
4 53 (38.97%) Manufacturing
4 53 (38.97%) EMC
5 45 (33.09%) HND
6 43 (31.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (28.68%) Project Planning
8 31 (22.79%) Firmware
9 25 (18.38%) Requirements Analysis
10 24 (17.65%) Embedded Firmware
11 21 (15.44%) Prototyping
11 21 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (13.97%) Social Skills
13 16 (11.76%) FPGA
13 16 (11.76%) Security Cleared
14 15 (11.03%) SC Cleared
14 15 (11.03%) Stress Analysis
14 15 (11.03%) Optoelectronics
15 14 (10.29%) Finance
16 12 (8.82%) FPGA Design
17 11 (8.09%) Analogue Electronics
17 11 (8.09%) Python
18 10 (7.35%) SQL
18 10 (7.35%) Git
18 10 (7.35%) Master's Degree
19 9 (6.62%) Oracle
19 9 (6.62%) C
20 8 (5.88%) Validation
20 8 (5.88%) e-Learning

Design 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 4 (2.94%) Apache
1 4 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.21%) AutoCAD
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.74%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.74%) OrCAD
3 1 (0.74%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.94%) Amazon S3
1 4 (2.94%) Power Platform
2 1 (0.74%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.94%) TETRA
2 3 (2.21%) 2G
2 3 (2.21%) 3G
2 3 (2.21%) 4G
2 3 (2.21%) 5G
2 3 (2.21%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.21%) MQTT
2 3 (2.21%) Wireless
3 2 (1.47%) BGP
3 2 (1.47%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (1.47%) DMVPN
3 2 (1.47%) EIGRP
3 2 (1.47%) GSM
3 2 (1.47%) OSPF
3 2 (1.47%) RFID
4 1 (0.74%) Modbus
4 1 (0.74%) Profibus
4 1 (0.74%) RS-232
4 1 (0.74%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.94%) Big Data
1 4 (2.94%) Data Lake
1 4 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (2.94%) Parquet
1 4 (2.94%) Power BI
2 2 (1.47%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (7.35%) Git
2 7 (5.15%) ClearCase
2 7 (5.15%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (1.47%) JIRA
4 1 (0.74%) PetaLinux
General
1 76 (55.88%) Electronics
2 53 (38.97%) Manufacturing
3 43 (31.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (13.97%) Social Skills
5 14 (10.29%) Finance
6 7 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.94%) Marketing
7 4 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.21%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.74%) Advertising
9 1 (0.74%) Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.15%) XML
1 7 (5.15%) XSD
2 4 (2.94%) REST
3 3 (2.21%) CSS
3 3 (2.21%) HTML
3 3 (2.21%) Node.js
4 2 (1.47%) Middleware
5 1 (0.74%) Flash
5 1 (0.74%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.76%) FPGA
2 15 (11.03%) Optoelectronics
3 11 (8.09%) Analogue Electronics
4 8 (5.88%) e-Learning
5 7 (5.15%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (4.41%) IoT
6 6 (4.41%) VHDL
7 5 (3.68%) SCADA
8 4 (2.94%) Verilog
9 3 (2.21%) Driving Licence
9 3 (2.21%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.47%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.47%) ARM Cortex
10 2 (1.47%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.74%) GNSS
11 1 (0.74%) Life Science
11 1 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.74%) Android
1 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (0.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (43.38%) Schematic Capture
2 39 (28.68%) Project Planning
3 25 (18.38%) Requirements Analysis
4 21 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (15.44%) Prototyping
5 15 (11.03%) Stress Analysis
6 12 (8.82%) FPGA Design
7 8 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (5.88%) Innovative Thinking
7 8 (5.88%) Validation
8 7 (5.15%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (5.15%) Coaching
8 7 (5.15%) UML
9 6 (4.41%) Software Engineering
10 5 (3.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (3.68%) Test Automation
11 4 (2.94%) Data Governance
11 4 (2.94%) Kimball Methodology
11 4 (2.94%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.09%) Python
2 10 (7.35%) SQL
3 9 (6.62%) C
4 6 (4.41%) C++
5 4 (2.94%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.21%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.21%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.47%) COBOL
8 1 (0.74%) C#
8 1 (0.74%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.74%) Embedded C++
8 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.74%) Rust
8 1 (0.74%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 82 (60.29%) Degree
2 45 (33.09%) HND
3 16 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 15 (11.03%) SC Cleared
5 10 (7.35%) Master's Degree
6 7 (5.15%) HNC
7 5 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.21%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.94%) Accessibility
1 4 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.21%) WCAG
3 1 (0.74%) ISO 13485
3 1 (0.74%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 31 (22.79%) Firmware
2 24 (17.65%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.47%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 53 (38.97%) EMC
2 9 (6.62%) Oracle
3 3 (2.21%) SAP
4 2 (1.47%) Cisco
4 2 (1.47%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.47%) Juniper
4 2 (1.47%) McAfee
5 1 (0.74%) Adobe
5 1 (0.74%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (0.74%) Altera
5 1 (0.74%) Cadence
5 1 (0.74%) Freescale
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.74%) Rockwell
5 1 (0.74%) Xilinx