Design Engineer Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Design Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Design Engineer daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 - 65
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs requiring a Design Engineer 6 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.58% - 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.05% - 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £625 £759 -
% change year-on-year -17.63% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% +16.67% +51.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 292 393 629
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 76.84% 78.60% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 189 381
10th Percentile £251 £184 £201
25th Percentile £340 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £556 £560 £586
90th Percentile £624 £615 £664
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 109 139
10th Percentile £14.57 - -
25th Percentile £15.92 £13.41 £13.41
Median hourly rate £22.90 £17.72 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.20% +14.32% +14.81%
75th Percentile £28.93 £20.56 £20.56
90th Percentile £60.00 £33.65 £35.50
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £43.15 £19.81
% change year-on-year +10.08% +117.82% +41.50%

Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Design Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Design Engineer in Cambridgeshire.

Daily rate trend for Design Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Design Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Design Engineer in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for Design Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Design Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Design Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 5 - - 6
Design Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Design Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring Design Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
2 5 (83.33%) Bash
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) Tcl
2 5 (83.33%) Verilog
3 4 (66.67%) IC Design
3 4 (66.67%) Smartphone
3 4 (66.67%) Electronic Design Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Firmware
3 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 4 (66.67%) Wearables
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Electronics
3 4 (66.67%) Validation
3 4 (66.67%) JTAG
3 4 (66.67%) Git
3 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Siemens
3 4 (66.67%) Augmented Reality
3 4 (66.67%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (66.67%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (33.33%) UVM
4 2 (33.33%) ASIC
4 2 (33.33%) PhD
5 1 (16.67%) Assembly Language
5 1 (16.67%) C
5 1 (16.67%) Unix
5 1 (16.67%) JSON
5 1 (16.67%) FPGA

Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Electronics
1 4 (66.67%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Verilog
2 4 (66.67%) Augmented Reality
2 4 (66.67%) Smartphone
2 4 (66.67%) Virtual Reality
3 2 (33.33%) ASIC
4 1 (16.67%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Electronic Design Automation
1 4 (66.67%) IC Design
1 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 4 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (33.33%) UVM
3 1 (16.67%) FPGA Design
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
2 5 (83.33%) Bash
2 5 (83.33%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) Tcl
3 1 (16.67%) Assembly Language
3 1 (16.67%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) JTAG
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (66.67%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Siemens