Design Engineer jobs in London

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Staff Design Engineer, UK

London

£138,000–£224,000

Hi I’m Abhik, Ashby’s Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. As someone who could design and build software, this position is close to my heart.

Engineering
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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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