Senior Design Engineer Jobs

Senior Design Engineer
UK

The median Senior Design Engineer salary in the UK is £56,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 680 867 876
Rank change year-on-year +187 +9 +300
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Design Engineer 28 47 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.046% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.048% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 10 17 20
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,750 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -32.23%
75th Percentile £70,625 £65,250 £65,625
90th Percentile £85,975 £67,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -33.73%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 49,581 97,268 88,998
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 94.79% 91.42%
Number of salaries quoted 25,819 69,389 56,377
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,875 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%

Senior Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Design Engineer in the UK

Senior Design Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Design Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior Design Engineer in the UK

Senior Design Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Design Engineer over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Design Engineer in the UK

Senior Design Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 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
England +173 26 £56,250 -6.25% 58
UK excluding London +189 23 £55,000 -4.35% 56
Work from Home +126 15 £81,250 +27.95% 30
South West +129 13 £52,500 +5.00% 13
North of England +32 5 £57,500 +11.65% 9
South East +97 3 £55,000 -8.33% 10
London +99 2 £83,500 +31.50% 10
Yorkshire +50 2 - - 4
North West +3 2 - - 4
Midlands +58 1 £57,500 +15.00% 4
North East +46 1 £57,500 -4.17% 1
East Midlands +34 1 £57,500 -11.54% 2
East of England - 1 - - 16

Senior Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 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 featuring Senior Design Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (57.14%) Degree
2 15 (53.57%) Electronics
3 13 (46.43%) Schematic Capture
3 13 (46.43%) Firmware
4 11 (39.29%) Requirements Analysis
4 11 (39.29%) Prototyping
4 11 (39.29%) Optoelectronics
4 11 (39.29%) Stress Analysis
4 11 (39.29%) Embedded Firmware
5 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Network Design
6 4 (14.29%) TETRA
7 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
7 3 (10.71%) BGP
7 3 (10.71%) EMC
7 3 (10.71%) DNS
7 3 (10.71%) Cisco
7 3 (10.71%) Project Delivery
7 3 (10.71%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (7.14%) Jinja
8 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
8 2 (7.14%) IOS XR
8 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
8 2 (7.14%) Akamai
8 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
8 2 (7.14%) Ansible
8 2 (7.14%) Docker
8 2 (7.14%) DevOps

Senior Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (3.57%) AutoCAD
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) Akamai
2 1 (3.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) TETRA
2 3 (10.71%) BGP
2 3 (10.71%) DNS
3 2 (7.14%) Broadband
3 2 (7.14%) HTTP
3 2 (7.14%) IOS XR
3 2 (7.14%) RFID
3 2 (7.14%) SSL
3 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.57%) BIG-IP
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (3.57%) Ethernet
4 1 (3.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (3.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (3.57%) Firewall
4 1 (3.57%) IPsec
4 1 (3.57%) MPLS
4 1 (3.57%) Network Security
4 1 (3.57%) OSPF
4 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
General
1 15 (53.57%) Electronics
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Jinja
1 2 (7.14%) YAML
1 2 (7.14%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Optoelectronics
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.14%) SCADA
4 1 (3.57%) Analogue Electronics
4 1 (3.57%) CCTV
4 1 (3.57%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (3.57%) FPGA
4 1 (3.57%) Life Science
4 1 (3.57%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Schematic Capture
2 11 (39.29%) Prototyping
2 11 (39.29%) Requirements Analysis
2 11 (39.29%) Stress Analysis
3 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (14.29%) Network Design
5 3 (10.71%) Project Delivery
6 2 (7.14%) Business Case
6 2 (7.14%) Business Strategy
6 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 2 (7.14%) Configuration Management
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (7.14%) Roadmaps
6 2 (7.14%) Systems Engineering
7 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis
7 1 (3.57%) Impact Analysis
7 1 (3.57%) Service Delivery
7 1 (3.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) C
1 2 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Chartered Engineer
2 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.57%) CCNP
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.57%) HND
3 1 (3.57%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 13 (46.43%) Firmware
2 11 (39.29%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Ansible
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Cisco
1 3 (10.71%) EMC
2 2 (7.14%) Nokia
3 1 (3.57%) F5
3 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.57%) Meraki
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) Riverbed
3 1 (3.57%) Zscaler