Digital Engineering Contracts in England

Digital Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 605 722
Rank change year-on-year +101 +117 -107
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 32 49 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.086% 0.098% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.100% 0.11% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 27 38
10th Percentile - £335 £428
25th Percentile £525 £350 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -1.64% +35.56%
75th Percentile £666 £655 £716
90th Percentile £1,119 £675 £757
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £640
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.25% +42.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £42.73 £41.50 -
25th Percentile £44.95 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £46.18 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -
75th Percentile £47.14 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £48.85 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £47.50 -
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,110 45,282 64,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.21% 90.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,055 31,791 45,856
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,255 1,587 1,766
10th Percentile £12.95 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.68
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Digital Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Engineering in England

Digital Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Engineering in England.

Daily rate trend for Digital Engineering in England

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Engineering in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Engineering in England

Digital Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Engineering in England.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Engineering in England

Digital Engineering
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +105 23 £588 -6.00% 15
North of England +37 8 - - 20
North East - 7 - - 3
North West +21 3 - - 13
South West +20 1 - - 8
Digital Engineering
UK

Digital Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (9.38%) ArcGIS
2 2 (6.25%) Confluence
3 1 (3.13%) Apache
3 1 (3.13%) JBoss
3 1 (3.13%) nginx
3 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) AWS
2 13 (40.63%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (6.25%) GitHub
4 2 (6.25%) Serverless
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) LoRaWAN
1 2 (6.25%) ZigBee
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) HTTP
2 1 (3.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) GIS
1 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (9.38%) Spatial Data
1 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.13%) Metadata
3 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Git
2 4 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.25%) Maven
3 2 (6.25%) Postman
3 2 (6.25%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (15.63%) Finance
2 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Banking
3 1 (3.13%) Marketing
3 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Architect
2 6 (18.75%) Developer
2 6 (18.75%) Lead
3 5 (15.63%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.38%) GIS Architect
4 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Head of Engineering
5 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Architect
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Development Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Digital Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Digital Product Manager
6 1 (3.13%) E-Commerce Product Manager
6 1 (3.13%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) IT Support
6 1 (3.13%) Operations Support Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior
6 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) PyTorch
1 7 (21.88%) TensorFlow
2 2 (6.25%) HTML
2 2 (6.25%) Middleware
2 2 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (3.13%) Celery
3 1 (3.13%) Django
3 1 (3.13%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (3.13%) JSON
3 1 (3.13%) JWT
3 1 (3.13%) Kafka
3 1 (3.13%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (3.13%) OAuth
3 1 (3.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.25%) IoT
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Robotics
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (3.13%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Unix
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
1 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 12 (37.50%) DevOps
3 8 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 8 (25.00%) Visualisation
4 7 (21.88%) Agile
4 7 (21.88%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (21.88%) GitOps
4 7 (21.88%) Machine Learning
4 7 (21.88%) Systems Engineering
5 6 (18.75%) ITSM
5 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
6 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (9.38%) Business Case
7 3 (9.38%) Change Management
7 3 (9.38%) CI/CD
7 3 (9.38%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (9.38%) Digital Strategy
7 3 (9.38%) Migration
7 3 (9.38%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (9.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Python
2 4 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
1 9 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Grafana
2 1 (3.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) ServiceNow
3 3 (9.38%) ESRI
4 1 (3.13%) Autodesk
4 1 (3.13%) Hitachi
4 1 (3.13%) IBM
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.13%) Temenos