Design Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Design Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Design Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
16 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 351 446
Rank change year-on-year +34 +95 -75
Contract jobs requiring a Design Engineer 77 99 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.43% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.46% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 30 24
10th Percentile £333 £379 £311
25th Percentile £513 £425 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £538 £406
Median % change year-on-year +25.58% +32.30% -4.41%
75th Percentile £775 £700 £457
90th Percentile £899 - £566
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 23
10th Percentile £51.38 - £24.23
25th Percentile £53.75 £42.50 £31.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £85.00 £59.82 £50.43
90th Percentile - £62.62 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +55.56% - +4.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,765 21,693 29,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,441 15,152 20,402
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,107 1,452
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Design Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Design Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Design Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Design Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Design Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Design Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Design Engineer in the UK excluding London

Design Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
East of England +11 36 £700 - 120
South East +3 14 £750 +66.67% 135
North of England - 13 £405 - 107
North West - 10 £210 - 67
Midlands +30 8 £750 +53.85% 109
East Midlands +13 5 £750 +53.85% 56
Scotland +36 4 £575 +39.34% 34
West Midlands - 3 £433 - 53
Yorkshire - 3 £525 - 32
South West -11 2 £775 +179.28% 71
Design Engineer
UK

Design Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Design Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (41.56%) Security Cleared
2 22 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 21 (27.27%) Degree
3 21 (27.27%) FPGA
3 21 (27.27%) FPGA Design
4 19 (24.68%) Xilinx
4 19 (24.68%) Verilog
4 19 (24.68%) C
4 19 (24.68%) SystemVerilog
5 18 (23.38%) VHDL
6 16 (20.78%) Intel
6 16 (20.78%) Simulink
6 16 (20.78%) UVM
6 16 (20.78%) Microsemi
6 16 (20.78%) Signal Processing
7 14 (18.18%) Social Skills
8 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (10.39%) VMware
9 8 (10.39%) Microsoft
9 8 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (9.09%) Linux
10 7 (9.09%) Risk Management
10 7 (9.09%) SC Cleared
11 6 (7.79%) Network Design
11 6 (7.79%) Cisco
11 6 (7.79%) Active Directory
11 6 (7.79%) VMware Infrastructure
12 5 (6.49%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (6.49%) Project Delivery
12 5 (6.49%) VPN

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:

Applications
1 16 (20.78%) Simulink
2 4 (5.19%) AutoCAD
3 3 (3.90%) Revit
4 2 (2.60%) CATIA
5 1 (1.30%) EPLAN
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.30%) Siemens NX
5 1 (1.30%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.60%) AWS
1 2 (2.60%) IaaS
1 2 (2.60%) PaaS
1 2 (2.60%) SaaS
1 2 (2.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) VPN
2 4 (5.19%) Firewall
2 4 (5.19%) Wideband
3 3 (3.90%) 4G
3 3 (3.90%) 5G
3 3 (3.90%) Network Security
3 3 (3.90%) WAN
4 2 (2.60%) LAN
4 2 (2.60%) MPLS
4 2 (2.60%) NAS
4 2 (2.60%) PBX
4 2 (2.60%) SAN
5 1 (1.30%) ADSL
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.30%) DSL
5 1 (1.30%) GSM
5 1 (1.30%) LTE
5 1 (1.30%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.30%) VoIP
5 1 (1.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.90%) Metadata
1 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (2.60%) JIRA
3 1 (1.30%) Git
3 1 (1.30%) GitLab
General
1 14 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.49%) Manufacturing
3 4 (5.19%) Aerospace
3 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.90%) Law
4 3 (3.90%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.60%) Electronics
6 1 (1.30%) Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Finance
6 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Military
6 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.30%) JSON
1 1 (1.30%) Web Services
1 1 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (27.27%) FPGA
2 19 (24.68%) Verilog
3 18 (23.38%) VHDL
4 5 (6.49%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.90%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.90%) ASIC
6 2 (2.60%) PKI
7 1 (1.30%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (1.30%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.30%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.30%) GNSS
7 1 (1.30%) IoT
7 1 (1.30%) NHS
7 1 (1.30%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.30%) SCADA
7 1 (1.30%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.30%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.09%) Linux
2 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (27.27%) FPGA Design
2 16 (20.78%) Signal Processing
2 16 (20.78%) UVM
3 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (9.09%) Risk Management
6 6 (7.79%) Network Design
7 5 (6.49%) Migration
7 5 (6.49%) Project Delivery
8 4 (5.19%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (5.19%) Roadmaps
9 3 (3.90%) Data Analysis
9 3 (3.90%) Hazard Analysis
9 3 (3.90%) Load Balancing
9 3 (3.90%) Network Virtualisation
9 3 (3.90%) Software Engineering
9 3 (3.90%) SQL Optimisation
9 3 (3.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (3.90%) Strategic Planning
9 3 (3.90%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 19 (24.68%) C
1 19 (24.68%) SystemVerilog
2 4 (5.19%) C++
2 4 (5.19%) SQL
3 3 (3.90%) Embedded C
3 3 (3.90%) Embedded C++
3 3 (3.90%) PL/SQL
3 3 (3.90%) Python
4 2 (2.60%) Bash
4 2 (2.60%) Tcl
5 1 (1.30%) C#
Qualifications
1 32 (41.56%) Security Cleared
2 22 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 21 (27.27%) Degree
4 7 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.90%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.60%) HND
7 1 (1.30%) CCIE
7 1 (1.30%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (1.30%) CCNP
7 1 (1.30%) CISA
7 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.30%) Def Stans
1 1 (1.30%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 6 (7.79%) Active Directory
1 6 (7.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.30%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (2.60%) VxRail
2 1 (1.30%) Ansible
2 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (24.68%) Xilinx
2 16 (20.78%) Intel
2 16 (20.78%) Microsemi
3 8 (10.39%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.39%) VMware
4 6 (7.79%) Cisco
5 3 (3.90%) Juniper
5 3 (3.90%) Oracle
5 3 (3.90%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.60%) Dell
7 1 (1.30%) Cadence
7 1 (1.30%) Mentor Graphics
7 1 (1.30%) Radianz
7 1 (1.30%) Ribbon
7 1 (1.30%) Siemens
553 Design Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London