Design Engineer jobs in London

Live design engineer roles in London, with London salary benchmarks.

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1389 live roles in London

Senior Design Engineer

London

£55,000–£75,000

An established civil engineering and infrastructure contractor is looking for an experienced Senior Design Engineer to join their team in London.

Engineering
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Permanent Way Design Engineer

London

£57,000–£81,000

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Design Engineer to join a specialist rail design team, working on a range of rail upgrade…

Engineering
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Design Engineer

London

£65,000–£90,000

Murphy is recruiting for aDesign Engineer to work withMurphy Applied Engineering in our London office.

Engineering
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RTL Design Engineer

London

£60,000–£90,000

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly.

Engineering
1 week ago Apply on WhatJobs

Design Engineer hiring in London: the numbers

  • 1,389 live design engineer roles in London right now.
  • Median advertised salary for design engineer roles in London: £77,500; the middle half of adverts pay £70,000 to £80,000 (from 21 current adverts that state an annual salary).
  • Advertisers with the most recent openings: Entangled Future (8), Morson Edge (4), Energy Jobline ZR (3), Ernest Gordon Recruitment (3), Placements24 (3).
  • Newest advert posted 5 November 2026.

Counted from the adverts on this board, refreshed hourly. Advertised pay is what employers state, not a market survey.

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Design Engineer salary in London

£42,000 – £60,000 (indicative · midpoint £51,000)

How this figure was built. No live advertised salaries back this figure yet. It is the midpoint of our curated 2026 baseline range for the role and region.

Methodology: medians reconcile live advertised UK salaries for this role and region; 25th–75th percentiles are shown only where at least 5 live salaried listings back them. They are measured or omitted, never interpolated. Rows marked indicative are anchored to our curated 2026 baseline ranges until enough live data accrues. Listings advertising an implausible annual figure (a mislabelled hourly or daily rate) are excluded rather than converted, because converting one means guessing the hours behind it.

Market view. Sector and toolchain drive pay: special-purpose machinery, defence and energy design roles pay above general fabrication drawing-office work. Chartership (CEng via IMechE or IET) and ownership of designs from concept through validation are the strongest levers.
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