Design Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Design Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Design Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 522 610
Rank change year-on-year +144 +88 +142
Permanent jobs requiring a Design Engineer 39 62 67
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.19% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 17 54 35
10th Percentile £40,750 £37,500 £41,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £64,750 -
90th Percentile £86,500 £66,250 £74,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,761 32,474 40,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 96.00% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,932 24,947 29,049
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,008 £36,711
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Design Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Design Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Design Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Design Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Design Engineer.

Design Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Design Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Design Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Design Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 3 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Design Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (64.10%) Degree
2 24 (61.54%) Firmware
3 23 (58.97%) Electronics
4 22 (56.41%) Prototyping
4 22 (56.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 21 (53.85%) Schematic Capture
6 20 (51.28%) Stress Analysis
6 20 (51.28%) Requirements Analysis
6 20 (51.28%) Optoelectronics
7 8 (20.51%) FPGA
8 6 (15.38%) FPGA Design
9 5 (12.82%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
9 5 (12.82%) Finance
9 5 (12.82%) Manufacturing
10 4 (10.26%) EMC
10 4 (10.26%) Python
10 4 (10.26%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (10.26%) e-Learning
10 4 (10.26%) VHDL
10 4 (10.26%) Innovative Thinking
10 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
10 4 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
11 3 (7.69%) IoT
11 3 (7.69%) Ethernet
11 3 (7.69%) C
11 3 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
11 3 (7.69%) Validation
12 2 (5.13%) CATIA

Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (5.13%) Kinematics
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Autodesk Inventor
1 2 (5.13%) CATIA
1 2 (5.13%) Chatbot
1 2 (5.13%) SOLIDWORKS
2 1 (2.56%) AutoCAD
2 1 (2.56%) EPLAN
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.13%) Azure
1 2 (5.13%) Azure AI
1 2 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (5.13%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (5.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.56%) BGP
2 1 (2.56%) IPsec
2 1 (2.56%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (2.56%) MPLS
2 1 (2.56%) OSPF
2 1 (2.56%) RS-232
2 1 (2.56%) RS-485
2 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) PetaLinux
General
1 23 (58.97%) Electronics
2 5 (12.82%) Finance
2 5 (12.82%) Manufacturing
3 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.13%) Automotive
5 1 (2.56%) Marketing
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 20 (51.28%) Optoelectronics
2 8 (20.51%) FPGA
3 4 (10.26%) e-Learning
3 4 (10.26%) VHDL
4 3 (7.69%) IoT
5 2 (5.13%) 3D Printing
5 2 (5.13%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (5.13%) Robotics
6 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.56%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (2.56%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.56%) Home Automation
6 1 (2.56%) Life Science
6 1 (2.56%) NB-IoT
6 1 (2.56%) SCADA
6 1 (2.56%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) Prototyping
2 21 (53.85%) Schematic Capture
3 20 (51.28%) Requirements Analysis
3 20 (51.28%) Stress Analysis
4 6 (15.38%) FPGA Design
5 5 (12.82%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (10.26%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (10.26%) Innovative Thinking
7 3 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (7.69%) Validation
8 2 (5.13%) Analytics
8 2 (5.13%) CAD
8 2 (5.13%) Data Governance
8 2 (5.13%) DevOps
8 2 (5.13%) Machine Learning
8 2 (5.13%) Rapid Prototyping
8 2 (5.13%) Risk Assessment
8 2 (5.13%) Signal Processing
8 2 (5.13%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) Python
2 3 (7.69%) C
3 1 (2.56%) C++
3 1 (2.56%) Rust
3 1 (2.56%) SQL
3 1 (2.56%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 25 (64.10%) Degree
2 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 24 (61.54%) Firmware
2 22 (56.41%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) EMC
2 2 (5.13%) Autodesk
2 2 (5.13%) Xilinx
3 1 (2.56%) Altera
3 1 (2.56%) Freescale
3 1 (2.56%) SAP