Digital Engineering Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Digital Engineering
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Digital Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 24 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +18
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 3 6 25
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 1.56% 3.08% 9.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 4.23% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
North West median daily rate £550 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 25
10th Percentile - - £41.15
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 164 142 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 85.42% 72.82% 92.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 49 133
10th Percentile £194 £257 £360
25th Percentile £400 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +7.06%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £650
90th Percentile £671 £634 £720
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 28 60
10th Percentile £22.36 £25.97 £20.58
25th Percentile £41.94 £35.36 £37.78
Median hourly rate £63.20 £40.33 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +56.73% -12.68% +22.19%
75th Percentile £71.13 £46.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.41 £56.56 £63.21
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.02
% change year-on-year -37.63% +15.16% +40.06%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Digital Engineering job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Digital Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Digital Engineering

Digital Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Digital Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Digital Engineering

Digital Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 24 October 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
Preston - 2 £550 -
Digital Engineering
North West

Digital Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Control
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) ITSM
1 3 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Perl
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCDP
1 3 (100.00%) CCNA
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) VMware