Forward Deployed Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Central London > City of London
The median Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) daily rate in the City of London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2026.
The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.
| 6 months to 12 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 137 | - | - |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | - |
| Contract Forward Deployed Engineer jobs | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the City of London | 0.098% | - | - |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.10% | - | - |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | £488 | - | - |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | £563 | - | - |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | - |
| Central London median daily rate | £525 | - | - |
All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London
For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job adverts in the City of London matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all contract IT job adverts they make up.
| 6 months to 12 Nov 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract job adverts in the City of London matching a recognised job title | 1,921 | 1,635 | 1,954 |
| % of contract job adverts matching a recognised job title | 93.84% | 93.91% | 93.40% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 1,333 | 1,138 | 1,198 |
| 10th Percentile | £363 | £325 | £363 |
| 25th Percentile | £455 | £415 | £463 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £550 | £550 | £575 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | -4.35% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £675 | £675 | £688 |
| 90th Percentile | £775 | £775 | £777 |
| Central London median daily rate | £550 | £550 | £575 |
| % change year-on-year | - | -4.35% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 18 | 19 | 15 |
| 10th Percentile | - | £16.96 | £16.60 |
| 25th Percentile | £17.60 | £20.18 | £25.06 |
| Median hourly rate | £21.75 | £27.50 | £57.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -20.91% | -52.17% | +51.32% |
| 75th Percentile | £36.81 | £41.75 | £112.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £62.55 | £64.11 | £137.50 |
| Central London median hourly rate | £25.00 | £26.57 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | -5.91% | -24.09% | -5.41% |
Forward Deployed Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London
For the 6 months to 12 November 2026, Forward Deployed Engineer contract job ads cited the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract Forward Deployed Engineer job ads across the City of London region.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | LLM | 100.0% | 2 |
| 1 | Retrieval-Augmented Generation | 100.0% | 2 |
| 4 | AWS | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | AWS CloudFormation | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Azure | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Bicep | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | CI/CD | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Customer Engagement | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Data Integration | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Django | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Docker | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | FastAPI | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Flask | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | GCP | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Infrastructure as Code | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Intelligent Automation | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Kubernetes | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Next.js | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Platform Engineering | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Python | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | React | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Software Architecture | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Software Engineering | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | SQL | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Stakeholder Engagement | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Stakeholder Management | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Strategic Thinking | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | Terraform | 50.0% | 1 |
| 4 | TypeScript | 50.0% | 1 |
Forward Deployed Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Job Titles
| Rank | Job Title | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Python Engineer | 50.0% | 1 |