Associate Engineer Jobs

Associate Engineer
UK

The median Associate Engineer salary in the UK is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 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
23 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 783 714 911
Rank change year-on-year -69 +197 +128
Permanent jobs requiring an Associate Engineer 13 24 188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.043% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.045% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 51
10th Percentile £27,598 - £27,209
25th Percentile £28,000 - £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £24,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -20.00% -17.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £39,750 £44,370
90th Percentile £82,500 £45,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £28,121 £24,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year +17.17% -20.00% -33.33%

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 72,786 52,778 122,866
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 95.58% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 37,755 38,476 76,234
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £32,504
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 £51,836 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.27% - +5.00%

Associate Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Associate Engineer in the UK

Associate Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Associate Engineer in the UK

Associate Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Associate Engineer over the 6 months to 23 November 2024.

Salary histogram for Associate Engineer in the UK

Associate Engineer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Associate Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
England -46 13 £40,000 -11.11% 16
UK excluding London -86 8 £28,121 +17.17% 13
South West +15 6 £28,121 -37.51% 4
London -16 5 £60,000 +33.33% 3
Work from Home - 5 £28,000 - 11
North East - 2 - -
North of England - 2 - - 7

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

For the 6 months to 23 November 2024, Associate 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 Associate Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) .NET
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
4 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Ansible
4 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
4 2 (15.38%) Firewall
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Unix
4 2 (15.38%) WAN
4 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
4 2 (15.38%) AutoCAD
4 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) Bicep
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) NGFW
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Terraform
4 2 (15.38%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
5 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery

Associate 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 2 (15.38%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) NGFW
1 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
1 2 (15.38%) WAN
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Advertising
3 1 (7.69%) Aviation
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
3 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 1 (7.69%) Business Development
4 1 (7.69%) Document Management
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Chartered Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) NEC