Chartered Engineer Job Trends in Wales

Chartered Engineer (CEng)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Chartered Engineer qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 78 84
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +28
Permanent jobs citing Chartered Engineer 7 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.64% 0.43% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.72% 1.45% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £56,800 - -
25th Percentile £70,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,900 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £81,780 - -
UK median annual salary £69,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.97% +5.45% +8.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wales

Chartered Engineer falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Wales.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 257 276 314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 23.45% 29.87% 36.38%
Number of salaries quoted 96 136 184
10th Percentile £29,750 £37,500 £32,603
25th Percentile £37,813 £44,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,019 £55,000 £45,017
Median % change year-on-year -1.78% +22.18% -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,900 £66,469 £61,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,144 £74,923
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -

Chartered Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Chartered Engineer relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Chartered Engineer job vacancy trend in Wales

Chartered Engineer
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Chartered Engineer.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Chartered Engineer

Chartered Engineer
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Chartered Engineer in Wales over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Chartered Engineer in Wales

Chartered Engineer
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Chartered Engineer within the Wales region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
North Wales +4 4 £75,900 -
South Wales +4 3 £77,850 - 1
Chartered Engineer
UK

Chartered Engineer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Principal Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Principal Software Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Product Assurance Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) System Design Authority
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Configuration Management
1 5 (71.43%) Waterfall
2 4 (57.14%) Systems Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) UML
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (28.57%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Ada
1 3 (42.86%) Ada 95
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 7 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 12207
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) IBM