Digital Engineering Contracts in the City of London

Digital Engineering
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Digital Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Engineering over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 173 185
Rank change year-on-year +48 +12 -32
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 2 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.091% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.15% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £690 - £570
25th Percentile £806 £450 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,050 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -19.23% +44.44%
75th Percentile £1,331 £615 £675
90th Percentile £1,470 £642 -
Central London median daily rate £1,050 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +100.00% -19.23% +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Digital Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,988 3,346 3,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.49% 91.85% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 2,259 2,941
10th Percentile £363 £355 £388
25th Percentile £451 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £806 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 24 42
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +128.09%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Digital Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Engineering in the City of London

Digital Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Engineering in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Digital Engineering in the City of London

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Engineering in the City of London

Digital Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Product Manager
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce Manager
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce Product Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Head of IT
1 1 (50.00%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Competitor Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Research
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow