Design Engineer Jobs

Design Engineer
UK

The median Design Engineer salary in the UK is £50,055 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides salary 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 605 567 825
Rank change year-on-year -38 +258 -76
Permanent jobs requiring a Design Engineer 186 196 312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.34% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.36% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 138 120 157
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,637 £41,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £65,438 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £74,875 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.66% -25.00% +27.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 71,968 55,098 132,518
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.73% 95.65% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37,505 40,133 78,004
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,604 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,525 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,404 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.99% - +5.00%

Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Design Engineer in the UK

Design Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Design Engineer in the UK

Design Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Design Engineer over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Design Engineer in the UK

Design Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Design Engineer within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -10 167 £50,055 -4.66% 160
England -58 160 £50,055 -8.99% 159
Work from Home +12 64 £49,250 -15.81% 73
Midlands -38 42 £47,500 -15.18% 17
North of England -6 38 £48,750 -7.14% 28
East of England -50 34 £57,500 +64.29% 35
South East -42 33 £60,000 +36.80% 46
East Midlands -32 24 £40,000 -6.98% 7
North West -33 19 £47,500 - 18
Yorkshire +37 18 £80,000 - 7
West Midlands -40 18 £72,500 +29.46% 10
South West +4 17 £50,000 -3.85% 26
London +6 15 £79,250 -11.94% 7
Scotland +8 14 £43,750 -7.89% 7
Wales +44 9 £70,000 +40.00% 5
North East -40 1 £35,000 -36.36% 3

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

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

1 75 (40.32%) Electronics
2 67 (36.02%) Degree
3 52 (27.96%) Manufacturing
4 38 (20.43%) Firmware
5 35 (18.82%) FPGA
6 33 (17.74%) Prototyping
7 26 (13.98%) C++
8 25 (13.44%) C
8 25 (13.44%) Schematic Capture
8 25 (13.44%) Social Skills
9 24 (12.90%) Embedded Firmware
10 21 (11.29%) VHDL
10 21 (11.29%) Software Engineering
11 18 (9.68%) Requirements Analysis
11 18 (9.68%) Optoelectronics
11 18 (9.68%) Stress Analysis
12 17 (9.14%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (9.14%) EMC
13 15 (8.06%) Linux
14 13 (6.99%) Embedded C
14 13 (6.99%) LabVIEW
14 13 (6.99%) Law
14 13 (6.99%) Network Design
15 12 (6.45%) Computer Science
15 12 (6.45%) Software Testing
15 12 (6.45%) AutoCAD
16 11 (5.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 11 (5.91%) Design for Manufacturing
17 10 (5.38%) RS-232
17 10 (5.38%) Systems Engineering

Design Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (2.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (6.45%) AutoCAD
2 6 (3.23%) SOLIDWORKS
3 5 (2.69%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (1.61%) Fusion 360
5 3 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.61%) Siemens NX
5 3 (1.61%) SketchUp
6 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (1.08%) Revit
7 1 (0.54%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.54%) EPLAN
7 1 (0.54%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 6 (3.23%) Azure
2 4 (2.15%) AWS
2 4 (2.15%) SaaS
3 2 (1.08%) Entra ID
3 2 (1.08%) IaaS
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (1.08%) PaaS
4 1 (0.54%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.38%) DVB
1 10 (5.38%) Ethernet
1 10 (5.38%) RS-232
2 7 (3.76%) Firewall
3 6 (3.23%) BGP
3 6 (3.23%) MPLS
4 5 (2.69%) ICMP
5 4 (2.15%) 2G
5 4 (2.15%) 3G
5 4 (2.15%) 4G
5 4 (2.15%) 5G
5 4 (2.15%) BIG-IP
5 4 (2.15%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (2.15%) DNS
5 4 (2.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 4 (2.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (2.15%) Network Security
5 4 (2.15%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.15%) VoIP
5 4 (2.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (6.99%) LabVIEW
2 3 (1.61%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 75 (40.32%) Electronics
2 52 (27.96%) Manufacturing
3 25 (13.44%) Social Skills
4 13 (6.99%) Law
5 7 (3.76%) Finance
6 6 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.69%) Games
7 5 (2.69%) Military
8 4 (2.15%) Retail
9 3 (1.61%) Advertising
9 3 (1.61%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.61%) Wearables
10 2 (1.08%) Automotive
10 2 (1.08%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Marketing
11 1 (0.54%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.23%) .NET
2 4 (2.15%) FreeSWITCH
2 4 (2.15%) WebRTC
3 3 (1.61%) .NET Framework
3 3 (1.61%) CSS
3 3 (1.61%) HTML
4 1 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.82%) FPGA
2 21 (11.29%) VHDL
3 18 (9.68%) Optoelectronics
4 17 (9.14%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (4.84%) Embedded Systems
6 8 (4.30%) CPLD
6 8 (4.30%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.23%) Analogue Electronics
7 6 (3.23%) CCTV
7 6 (3.23%) Driving Licence
8 5 (2.69%) Acoustics
8 5 (2.69%) IoT
9 3 (1.61%) 3D Printing
9 3 (1.61%) Clustering
9 3 (1.61%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.61%) Robotics
10 1 (0.54%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.54%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.54%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.06%) Linux
2 10 (5.38%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (2.15%) Windows
3 4 (2.15%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (17.74%) Prototyping
2 25 (13.44%) Schematic Capture
3 21 (11.29%) Software Engineering
4 18 (9.68%) Requirements Analysis
4 18 (9.68%) Stress Analysis
5 13 (6.99%) Network Design
6 12 (6.45%) Computer Science
6 12 (6.45%) Software Testing
7 11 (5.91%) Design for Manufacturing
7 11 (5.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (5.38%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (5.38%) Systems Engineering
8 10 (5.38%) Validation
9 9 (4.84%) Project Delivery
10 8 (4.30%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (3.76%) Agile
11 7 (3.76%) FPGA Design
12 6 (3.23%) CAD
12 6 (3.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (3.23%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (13.98%) C++
2 25 (13.44%) C
3 13 (6.99%) Embedded C
4 7 (3.76%) MATLAB
5 5 (2.69%) Python
6 4 (2.15%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.15%) SQL
7 3 (1.61%) Assembly Language
7 3 (1.61%) C#
7 3 (1.61%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.61%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.54%) Embedded C++
8 1 (0.54%) VB
8 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (36.02%) Degree
2 6 (3.23%) JNCIE
2 6 (3.23%) JNCIP
3 4 (2.15%) CCNP
3 4 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (2.15%) HNC
3 4 (2.15%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.61%) HND
4 3 (1.61%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.08%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.54%) EMC Certification
6 1 (0.54%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.69%) JTAG
System Software
1 38 (20.43%) Firmware
2 24 (12.90%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (2.15%) Kamailio
4 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.15%) FortiGate
2 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (9.14%) EMC
2 8 (4.30%) Juniper
2 8 (4.30%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.76%) Cisco
4 6 (3.23%) Nokia
5 5 (2.69%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.15%) F5
6 4 (2.15%) Meraki
6 4 (2.15%) Riverbed
6 4 (2.15%) Zscaler
7 2 (1.08%) BT
8 1 (0.54%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.54%) Citrix
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle
8 1 (0.54%) SAP
8 1 (0.54%) Sitecore