Forward Deployed Engineer Contract Job Trends in East London
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
London > East London
The median Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) daily rate in East London is £600, 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 | 21 | - | - |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | - |
| Contract Forward Deployed Engineer jobs | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| As % of all contract jobs in East London | 0.74% | - | - |
| As % of the Job Titles category | 0.84% | - | - |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £600 | - | - |
| London median daily rate | £650 | - | - |
All Contract IT Job Roles
East London
For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job adverts in East 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 East London matching a recognised job title | 119 | 94 | 122 |
| % of contract job adverts matching a recognised job title | 87.50% | 83.93% | 85.92% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 66 | 72 | 100 |
| 10th Percentile | £184 | £190 | £259 |
| 25th Percentile | £414 | £351 | £400 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £581 | £525 | £475 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +10.57% | +10.53% | -15.18% |
| 75th Percentile | £661 | £675 | £586 |
| 90th Percentile | £813 | £948 | £631 |
| London median daily rate | £550 | £543 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | +1.38% | -1.36% | -3.42% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 23 | 8 | 1 |
| 10th Percentile | £15.55 | £23.33 | - |
| 25th Percentile | £16.63 | £24.70 | - |
| Median hourly rate | £45.00 | £33.25 | £21.09 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +35.35% | +57.65% | +11.41% |
| 75th Percentile | £47.50 | £56.88 | - |
| 90th Percentile | £59.50 | £75.89 | - |
| London median hourly rate | £41.00 | £26.89 | £37.15 |
| % change year-on-year | +52.47% | -27.62% | -2.44% |
Forward Deployed Engineer Skill Set Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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 East London region.
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | AI Transformation | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Amazon Bedrock | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Anthropic Claude | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | AWS | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Budgeting | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Collaborative Working | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Cost Management | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Data Protection | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Digital Transformation Programme | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Enterprise Modelling | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | 100.0% | 1 | |
| 1 | Google Gemini | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Knowledge Transfer | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | LLM | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Observability | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Open Source | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | OpenAI | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Red Team | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Secrets Management | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Software Architecture | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Software Engineering | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Stakeholder Management | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Webhook | 100.0% | 1 |
Forward Deployed Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amazon Bedrock | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Anthropic Claude | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | AWS | 100.0% | 1 |
| 1 | Google Gemini | 100.0% | 1 |