Research Engineer Jobs in England

Research Engineer
UK > England

The median Research Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 783 847 1098
Rank change year-on-year +64 +251 -215
Permanent jobs requiring a Research Engineer 59 49 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.066% 0.057% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.062% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 49 23 28
10th Percentile £35,250 £48,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £55,313 £37,134
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £75,000 £49,167
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +52.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £62,500 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £102,500 £99,350
UK median annual salary £58,000 £73,750 £49,167
% change year-on-year -21.36% +50.00% -19.73%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 84,698 78,992 134,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 91.44% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,716 50,412 74,905
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,066 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Research Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Research Engineer in England

Research Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Research Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Research Engineer in England

Research Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Research Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Research Engineer in England

Research Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Research Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 40 £58,000 - 6
North of England +34 6 £40,138 -27.02%
North West +2 6 £40,138 -27.02%
London +88 4 £87,500 +22.81% 6
South West -40 4 £37,500 -50.00% 3
East of England 0 3 £85,000 -10.53% 4
West Midlands +1 2 - - 3
Midlands -14 2 - - 3
Research Engineer
UK

Research Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, Research 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 across the England region featuring Research Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (57.63%) Python
2 28 (47.46%) Degree
3 26 (44.07%) Software Engineering
4 21 (35.59%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (30.51%) Computer Science
6 16 (27.12%) Linux
6 16 (27.12%) Algorithms
7 14 (23.73%) Open Source
7 14 (23.73%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (22.03%) Data Science
8 13 (22.03%) Physics
9 11 (18.64%) C++
9 11 (18.64%) Bash
9 11 (18.64%) Master's Degree
10 10 (16.95%) Data Engineering
10 10 (16.95%) Mentoring
10 10 (16.95%) Coaching
10 10 (16.95%) Analytics
10 10 (16.95%) Data Quality
10 10 (16.95%) Data Modelling
10 10 (16.95%) Mathematics
10 10 (16.95%) Artificial Intelligence
10 10 (16.95%) Red Team
10 10 (16.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (15.25%) Machine Learning
11 9 (15.25%) IoT
12 8 (13.56%) PhD
12 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
13 7 (11.86%) Fortran
13 7 (11.86%) Microsoft

Research Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (10.17%) ArcGIS
2 4 (6.78%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
1 4 (6.78%) AWS
2 1 (1.69%) Azure
2 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) Modbus
1 3 (5.08%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) GIS
1 6 (10.17%) MySQL
1 6 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (10.17%) Relational Database
1 6 (10.17%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.47%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (8.47%) MongoDB
2 5 (8.47%) NoSQL
2 5 (8.47%) Redis
General
1 10 (16.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.78%) Finance
4 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Law
5 2 (3.39%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) .NET
1 6 (10.17%) .NET Core
2 5 (8.47%) AngularJS
2 5 (8.47%) ASP.NET
2 5 (8.47%) Blazor
2 5 (8.47%) CSS
2 5 (8.47%) GeoJSON
2 5 (8.47%) HTML
2 5 (8.47%) HTML5
2 5 (8.47%) JSON
2 5 (8.47%) Node.js
2 5 (8.47%) PostGIS
2 5 (8.47%) React
2 5 (8.47%) RESTful
2 5 (8.47%) Svelte
2 5 (8.47%) Vue
2 5 (8.47%) XML
3 4 (6.78%) GeoTools
3 4 (6.78%) Leaflet
3 4 (6.78%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 16 (27.12%) Algorithms
2 9 (15.25%) IoT
3 4 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.78%) Robotics
4 3 (5.08%) CAN bus
4 3 (5.08%) Life Science
4 3 (5.08%) Mixed Reality
4 3 (5.08%) NHS
4 3 (5.08%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.69%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 16 (27.12%) Linux
2 7 (11.86%) Unix
3 5 (8.47%) Windows
4 4 (6.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.07%) Software Engineering
2 21 (35.59%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (30.51%) Computer Science
4 14 (23.73%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (23.73%) Open Source
5 13 (22.03%) Data Science
5 13 (22.03%) Physics
6 10 (16.95%) Analytics
6 10 (16.95%) Artificial Intelligence
6 10 (16.95%) Coaching
6 10 (16.95%) Data Engineering
6 10 (16.95%) Data Modelling
6 10 (16.95%) Mathematics
6 10 (16.95%) Mentoring
6 10 (16.95%) Red Team
7 9 (15.25%) Machine Learning
8 7 (11.86%) Parallel Programming
8 7 (11.86%) Performance Analysis
8 7 (11.86%) SDLC
8 7 (11.86%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (57.63%) Python
2 11 (18.64%) Bash
2 11 (18.64%) C++
3 7 (11.86%) C
3 7 (11.86%) Fortran
4 6 (10.17%) C#
4 6 (10.17%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.78%) Rust
6 3 (5.08%) Go
6 3 (5.08%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 28 (47.46%) Degree
2 11 (18.64%) Master's Degree
3 8 (13.56%) PhD
4 7 (11.86%) Security Cleared
5 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.95%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (8.47%) Docker
2 4 (6.78%) NFS
2 4 (6.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 4 (6.78%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.78%) Ansible
2 4 (6.78%) Grafana
2 4 (6.78%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) Oracle
3 5 (8.47%) ESRI
4 4 (6.78%) VMware