Digital Engineering Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Digital Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Digital Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 - 131
Rank change year-on-year - - +59
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.16% - 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £623
25th Percentile £613 - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.95%
75th Percentile £638 - £713
90th Percentile - - £728
Central London median daily rate £625 - £675
% change year-on-year - - +2.95%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Digital Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,657 1,878 2,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.30% 92.15% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 1,145 1,584
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% - -1.71%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £758 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.29 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £42.30 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £51.25 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -24.84% +27.27% -34.13%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Digital Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Digital Engineering job vacancy trend in the City of London

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Digital Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Digital Engineering

Digital Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) International Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Product Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Product Owner
1 2 (66.67%) Product Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Business Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Management Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Backlog Management
1 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
1 2 (66.67%) Product Backlog
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
1 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) BCP
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Competitor Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Research