Digital Engineering Contracts in London

Digital Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 368 468
Rank change year-on-year +27 +100 +86
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 12 23 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.096% 0.13% 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.15% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 15
10th Percentile £508 - £490
25th Percentile £576 £525 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £588 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -6.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £706 £666 £668
90th Percentile £822 £1,119 £675
England median daily rate £600 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £42.50 -
England median hourly rate £56.84 £46.18 £47.50
% change year-on-year +23.08% -2.78% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Engineering in London

Digital Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Engineering in London

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Engineering in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Engineering in London

Digital Engineering
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +6 4 - - 3
Digital Engineering
England

Digital Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (33.33%) CMS
1 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (16.67%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Google Workspace
1 2 (16.67%) Slack
1 2 (16.67%) Yammer
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Appium
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Automotive
4 3 (25.00%) Banking
4 3 (25.00%) Financial Institution
4 3 (25.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (16.67%) International Banking
5 2 (16.67%) Marketing
6 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Communications Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Customer Communications Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Engagement Manager
2 2 (16.67%) IT Communications Manager
2 2 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Manager
3 1 (8.33%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (8.33%) GStreamer
1 1 (8.33%) OpenCL
1 1 (8.33%) Playwright
1 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Life Science
2 2 (16.67%) Social Media
3 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) CUDA
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Android
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Change Management
1 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (33.33%) Content Management
2 4 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
2 4 (33.33%) Migration
2 4 (33.33%) User Experience
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Project Management
3 3 (25.00%) Service Management
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
4 2 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (16.67%) Low Latency
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) C++
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Hitachi
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Adobe
2 2 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) NVIDIA
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce