Digital Engineering Contracts in England

Digital Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Digital Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 505 590
Rank change year-on-year +57 +85 +118
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 23 28 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.095% 0.077% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.089% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 28
10th Percentile £461 - £339
25th Percentile £481 £525 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £556
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +5.62% -14.42%
75th Percentile £641 £666 £653
90th Percentile £757 £1,119 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £513
% change year-on-year -8.00% +21.95% -21.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £37.76
25th Percentile - - £37.78
Median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 £40.55
Median % change year-on-year - +13.90% -
75th Percentile - £48.09 £46.29
90th Percentile - £49.24 £51.52
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 £40.55
% change year-on-year - +13.90% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,169 31,438 43,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.25% 86.37% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,471 20,622 30,640
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 2,250 1,536
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.96 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 20 May 2025.

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 20 May 2025. 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 +44 13 £628 +6.81% 123
North of England +14 7 £500 - 15
North East -8 4 - - 3
Midlands - 3 £575 - 23
North West +14 2 £620 - 13
West Midlands - 2 £575 - 17
Yorkshire - 1 £450 -
East Midlands - 1 - - 6
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 4 (17.39%) CMS
1 4 (17.39%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.70%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (8.70%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
1 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (8.70%) Google Workspace
1 2 (8.70%) Slack
1 2 (8.70%) Yammer
2 1 (4.35%) Apigee
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (4.35%) GCP
2 1 (4.35%) GitHub
2 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.35%) Big Data
2 1 (4.35%) GIS
2 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.35%) HBase
2 1 (4.35%) Impala
2 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Appium
3 1 (4.35%) CircleCI
3 1 (4.35%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Manufacturing
2 5 (21.74%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Automotive
4 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Financial Institution
5 2 (8.70%) International Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Marketing
6 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Communications Manager
1 4 (17.39%) Lead
1 4 (17.39%) Senior
2 2 (8.70%) Customer Communications Manager
2 2 (8.70%) Engagement Manager
2 2 (8.70%) IT Communications Manager
2 2 (8.70%) IT Manager
2 2 (8.70%) Product Manager
2 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) Test Manager
2 2 (8.70%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) Consultant
3 1 (4.35%) Developer
3 1 (4.35%) Senior Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) .NET
1 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
1 1 (4.35%) GStreamer
1 1 (4.35%) Kafka
1 1 (4.35%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (4.35%) MIDP
1 1 (4.35%) OAuth
1 1 (4.35%) OpenAPI
1 1 (4.35%) OpenCL
1 1 (4.35%) Playwright
1 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (4.35%) REST
1 1 (4.35%) RESTful
1 1 (4.35%) Swagger
1 1 (4.35%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Product Ownership
2 4 (17.39%) Life Science
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Social Media
4 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.35%) CUDA
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Android
2 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (21.74%) Change Management
3 4 (17.39%) Agile
3 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
3 4 (17.39%) Content Management
3 4 (17.39%) Customer Engagement
3 4 (17.39%) DevOps
3 4 (17.39%) Migration
3 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (17.39%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
3 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
3 4 (17.39%) User Experience
4 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
4 3 (13.04%) Project Management
4 3 (13.04%) Service Management
4 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
5 2 (8.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Java
2 2 (8.70%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) Apex Code
3 1 (4.35%) C++
3 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) Scala
3 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Hitachi
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Google
2 3 (13.04%) IBM
3 2 (8.70%) Adobe
3 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) NVIDIA