Senior Design Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Design Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Design Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £56,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 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
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 728 696
Rank change year-on-year +177 -32 +118
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Design Engineer 29 30 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.074% 0.042% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.045% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 10 15 13
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £49,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% -27.71%
75th Percentile £80,313 £64,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £74,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -27.71%

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 35,260 67,223 53,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 94.80% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,851 47,591 30,483
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,716 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,000 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Senior Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Design Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Design Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Design Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Design Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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 West +130 20 £65,000 +30.00% 10
North of England +47 4 - - 10
South East +96 3 £55,000 -8.33% 14
Yorkshire +54 2 - - 4
North West +9 2 - - 5
Midlands +67 1 £57,500 +15.00% 8
East Midlands +45 1 £57,500 -11.54% 6
East of England +43 1 - - 16
Senior Design Engineer
UK

Senior Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Design Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (72.41%) Electronics
2 20 (68.97%) Degree
3 19 (65.52%) Schematic Capture
3 19 (65.52%) Firmware
4 17 (58.62%) Requirements Analysis
4 17 (58.62%) Stress Analysis
4 17 (58.62%) Prototyping
4 17 (58.62%) Optoelectronics
4 17 (58.62%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (13.79%) TETRA
6 3 (10.34%) EMC
7 2 (6.90%) C
7 2 (6.90%) RFID
7 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
7 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (6.90%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) SCADA
7 2 (6.90%) Systems Engineering
7 2 (6.90%) Master's Degree
7 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (6.90%) Project Delivery
8 1 (3.45%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (3.45%) Architectural Design
8 1 (3.45%) Life Science
8 1 (3.45%) FPGA
8 1 (3.45%) VHDL
8 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical

Senior 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) TETRA
2 2 (6.90%) RFID
General
1 21 (72.41%) Electronics
2 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 17 (58.62%) Optoelectronics
2 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.90%) SCADA
3 1 (3.45%) Analogue Electronics
3 1 (3.45%) FPGA
3 1 (3.45%) Life Science
3 1 (3.45%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) Schematic Capture
2 17 (58.62%) Prototyping
2 17 (58.62%) Requirements Analysis
2 17 (58.62%) Stress Analysis
3 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (6.90%) Project Delivery
4 2 (6.90%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (3.45%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.90%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (68.97%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Chartered Engineer
2 2 (6.90%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 19 (65.52%) Firmware
2 17 (58.62%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) EMC