Senior Design Engineer Jobs

Senior Design Engineer
UK

The median Senior Design Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 November 2024.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 733 669 1030
Rank change year-on-year -64 +361 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Design Engineer 54 84 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.071% 0.15% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.16% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 31 54 38
10th Percentile £48,869 £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,750 £51,175 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -22.58% +34.78%
75th Percentile - £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,250 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +27.27% -29.03% +34.78%

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 71,750 54,057 126,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 95.61% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 37,041 39,320 77,277
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +5.00%

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 15 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Design Engineer in the UK

Senior Design Engineer
Top 13 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 15 November 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 -82 46 £70,000 +27.27% 45
England -88 36 £65,000 +8.33% 53
Work from Home +1 25 £70,000 +16.67% 21
South West +23 12 £65,000 - 12
North of England -21 11 £50,055 -8.99% 7
Wales +38 10 £70,000 +40.00% 1
North West -41 6 £50,055 -4.66% 7
Scotland - 6 £60,000 - 1
Yorkshire +23 5 - -
London +10 5 £83,500 -7.22% 5
Midlands -69 5 £65,000 +11.11% 4
West Midlands -70 5 £65,000 +11.11% 4
South East -41 2 £68,750 +1.85% 11

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

For the 6 months to 15 November 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 28 (51.85%) Degree
2 27 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 26 (48.15%) Electronics
4 22 (40.74%) Schematic Capture
5 21 (38.89%) Stress Analysis
5 21 (38.89%) Optoelectronics
5 21 (38.89%) Embedded Firmware
5 21 (38.89%) Firmware
5 21 (38.89%) Requirements Analysis
6 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
7 6 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 5 (9.26%) User Research
8 5 (9.26%) Wireframes
8 5 (9.26%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (9.26%) Systems Engineering
8 5 (9.26%) Azure
8 5 (9.26%) Ergonomics
8 5 (9.26%) Human Factors
8 5 (9.26%) Data Centre
8 5 (9.26%) User Experience
8 5 (9.26%) Software Engineering
8 5 (9.26%) Usability Testing
8 5 (9.26%) MS Visio
8 5 (9.26%) Military
8 5 (9.26%) Service Delivery
9 4 (7.41%) Firewall
9 4 (7.41%) AutoCAD
9 4 (7.41%) DNS
9 4 (7.41%) CCNP
9 4 (7.41%) Cisco Certification

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:

Applications
1 5 (9.26%) MS Visio
2 4 (7.41%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.85%) Revit
3 1 (1.85%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.26%) Azure
2 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
2 1 (1.85%) IaaS
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (1.85%) PaaS
2 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) BIG-IP
1 4 (7.41%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (7.41%) DNS
1 4 (7.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 4 (7.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 4 (7.41%) Firewall
1 4 (7.41%) Network Security
2 1 (1.85%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
General
1 26 (48.15%) Electronics
2 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Military
4 4 (7.41%) Retail
5 2 (3.70%) Automotive
5 2 (3.70%) Law
6 1 (1.85%) Finance
6 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.85%) Marketing
6 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 21 (38.89%) Optoelectronics
2 5 (9.26%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.41%) Analogue Electronics
4 3 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (5.56%) FPGA
5 2 (3.70%) CCTV
5 2 (3.70%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.85%) GNSS
6 1 (1.85%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.85%) IoT
6 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.85%) Verilog
6 1 (1.85%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 22 (40.74%) Schematic Capture
3 21 (38.89%) Requirements Analysis
3 21 (38.89%) Stress Analysis
4 6 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 5 (9.26%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (9.26%) Ergonomics
5 5 (9.26%) Human Factors
5 5 (9.26%) Service Delivery
5 5 (9.26%) Software Engineering
5 5 (9.26%) Systems Engineering
5 5 (9.26%) Usability Testing
5 5 (9.26%) User Experience
5 5 (9.26%) User Research
5 5 (9.26%) Wireframes
6 4 (7.41%) Network Design
6 4 (7.41%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (7.41%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (5.56%) Mentoring
8 2 (3.70%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.85%) C
1 1 (1.85%) C++
1 1 (1.85%) Embedded C
1 1 (1.85%) Embedded C++
1 1 (1.85%) MATLAB
1 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (51.85%) Degree
2 4 (7.41%) CCNP
2 4 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.85%) EMC Certification
3 1 (1.85%) HNC
3 1 (1.85%) HND
System Software
1 21 (38.89%) Embedded Firmware
1 21 (38.89%) Firmware
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (7.41%) Cisco
1 4 (7.41%) F5
1 4 (7.41%) Fortinet
1 4 (7.41%) Meraki
1 4 (7.41%) Riverbed
1 4 (7.41%) Zscaler
2 3 (5.56%) EMC
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.85%) SAP