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What does a Design engineer earn in Manchester? (2026)

What employers advertise in Manchester.

£50,000 per year, median

the midpoint of 89 advertised salaries from 48 employers, collected 29 Aug 2026 – 20 Oct 2026

about £4,200 a month

Low
£41,600
Median
£50,000
Average
£56,500
High
£75,000
Median Average
Low £41,600 High £75,000
The bar leaves out the highest and lowest tenth of advertised salaries; the darker section is the middle half.

Half of the adverts fall between £42,500 and £62,100. “Low” and “high” are the bottom and top tenth of what is advertised, not the single cheapest and dearest advert — one unusual posting should not decide either end.

How this figure was worked out

  • 89 advertised salaries, from 48 different employers.
  • Collected between 29 Aug 2026 and 20 Oct 2026.
  • Stated in the advert as a yearly figure (87), an hourly rate (2). Hourly and monthly figures are converted to a year at 1,950 hours, so they can be compared with the ones stated annually.
  • Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. Adverts offering part-time only are left out, because a part-time figure is not comparable with a full-time one.

These are advertised salaries, read from the text of employers’ own job adverts. They are not verified with the employer, they are not what anyone is necessarily paid, and they are not a pay survey.

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Senior Protection and Control Design Engineer AECOM · Civil Design Engineer - Water Morson Edge · Lead Mechanical Design Engineer ODIN RECRUITMENT GROUP LIMITED · Full-time Lead Mechanical Design Engineer Odin Recruitment Group · Full-time Senior Mechanical Building Services Design Engineer Rullion Managed Services · Full-time Senior Civil Design Engineer Matchtech · Apprenticeship Protective Design Engineer (Structural / Blast Engineering) Arup · Full-time BMS Design Engineer Johnson Controls · Full-time Mechanical Design Engineer Chroma Recruitment · Full-time Mechanical Design Engineer Bennett and Game Recruitment LTD · 40–60k £/yrFull-time Highway/Infrastructure Design Engineer Royal Haskoning · Full-time Electronics Design Engineer KRATOS ANALYTICAL LTD · Full-time Senior Mechanical Design Engineer Tozer Associates · Full-time Mechanical Design Engineer Aspion · Full-time Senior Mechanical Design Engineer (Building Services) Ashbys Consulting · Full-time Lead Mechanical Design Engineer (Life Sciences) Ashbys Consulting · Full-time Fire Suppression Design Engineer Johnson Controls · Full-time Senior Product Engineer (£100k + benefits) Morson Edge · Full-time Network Design Engineer - Aruba Hays · Full-time Civil Structural Design Engineer TURNER & LOVELL LIMITED · Full-time