Senior Design Engineer Jobs

Senior Design Engineer
UK

The median Senior Design Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 859 870 1199
Rank change year-on-year +11 +329 -365
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Design Engineer 48 77 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.081% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.089% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 18 20 48
10th Percentile £47,500 - £45,700
25th Percentile £49,813 £48,750 £76,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,250 £83,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -32.23% +44.35%
75th Percentile £65,250 £66,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £70,500 £77,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £83,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -36.75% +44.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Senior Design Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Design Engineer in the UK

Senior Design Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Design Engineer in the UK

Senior Design Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Design Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Design Engineer in the UK

Senior Design Engineer
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Design Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England -9 30 £60,000 +11.63% 79
UK excluding London -75 29 £57,500 +9.52% 78
North of England +49 17 £51,500 - 18
Yorkshire - 10 - - 6
Work from Home +20 7 £63,500 +4.53% 28
North West +1 6 £51,500 - 8
South East -11 5 £60,000 - 17
London +115 4 £63,500 +10.43% 8
Midlands -18 3 £50,000 -4.76% 10
Scotland - 3 £60,000 - 8
West Midlands -19 2 £50,000 -4.76% 9
East Midlands -18 1 £65,000 +18.18% 1
North East - 1 £60,000 - 4
South West - 1 £50,000 - 9

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Design Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (31.25%) Data Centre
1 15 (31.25%) Oracle
2 7 (14.58%) Degree
2 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 6 (12.50%) Resource Management
3 6 (12.50%) TETRA
3 6 (12.50%) Electronics
3 6 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 4 (8.33%) Project Planning
4 4 (8.33%) Revit
4 4 (8.33%) Schematic Capture
4 4 (8.33%) Bluetooth
4 4 (8.33%) C
4 4 (8.33%) Ethernet
4 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.33%) EMC
4 4 (8.33%) Siemens
4 4 (8.33%) Firmware
4 4 (8.33%) AutoCAD
5 3 (6.25%) CAD
5 3 (6.25%) Security Management
5 3 (6.25%) Embedded C
5 3 (6.25%) Prototyping
5 3 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (6.25%) Social Skills
5 3 (6.25%) RIBA
6 2 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (4.17%) Code Quality
6 2 (4.17%) Analogue Electronics

Senior 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 2 (4.17%) WinCC
Applications
1 4 (8.33%) AutoCAD
1 4 (8.33%) Revit
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.08%) Azure
1 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
1 1 (2.08%) IaaS
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (2.08%) PaaS
1 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) TETRA
2 4 (8.33%) Bluetooth
2 4 (8.33%) Ethernet
3 2 (4.17%) Modbus
3 2 (4.17%) Profibus
3 2 (4.17%) Wireless
3 2 (4.17%) ZigBee
4 1 (2.08%) 3GPP
4 1 (2.08%) 4G
4 1 (2.08%) 5G
4 1 (2.08%) 5G NR
4 1 (2.08%) GSM
4 1 (2.08%) LTE
4 1 (2.08%) RFID
4 1 (2.08%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (2.08%) UMTS
4 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Subversion
2 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (12.50%) Electronics
1 6 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 3 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.17%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.08%) Finance
4 1 (2.08%) Games
4 1 (2.08%) Marketing
4 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.08%) Wearables
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.25%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.17%) Analogue Electronics
2 2 (4.17%) CAN bus
2 2 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (4.17%) FPGA
2 2 (4.17%) SCADA
2 2 (4.17%) VHDL
3 1 (2.08%) ARM Cortex
3 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.08%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (2.08%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
2 6 (12.50%) Resource Management
3 4 (8.33%) Project Planning
3 4 (8.33%) Schematic Capture
4 3 (6.25%) CAD
4 3 (6.25%) Prototyping
4 3 (6.25%) Security Management
4 3 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (4.17%) Code Quality
5 2 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (4.17%) Programme Management
5 2 (4.17%) Project Management
5 2 (4.17%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (4.17%) Software Engineering
5 2 (4.17%) Software Testing
6 1 (2.08%) Culture Change
6 1 (2.08%) FPGA Design
6 1 (2.08%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (2.08%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.33%) C
2 3 (6.25%) Embedded C
3 2 (4.17%) C++
3 2 (4.17%) Ladder Logic
4 1 (2.08%) Embedded C++
4 1 (2.08%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) RIBA
3 1 (2.08%) BICSI Certification
3 1 (2.08%) BICSI RCDD
3 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) ISO 9001
1 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Firmware
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.08%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (31.25%) Oracle
2 4 (8.33%) EMC
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.33%) Siemens
3 2 (4.17%) Rockwell
4 1 (2.08%) Autodesk
4 1 (2.08%) SAP
4 1 (2.08%) Xilinx