Digital Engineering Contracts in the Midlands

Digital Engineering
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 - 145
Rank change year-on-year - - +73
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 5 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.21% - 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% - 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £555 - £313
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.15%
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £595 - £400
England median daily rate £600 £588 £400
% change year-on-year +2.13% +46.88% -38.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.35 - -
25th Percentile £44.88 - -
Median hourly rate £47.00 - -
75th Percentile £50.38 - -
90th Percentile £51.65 - -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 £46.18

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,104 2,266 2,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.70% 80.33% 85.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,337 1,532 1,926
10th Percentile £210 £250 £257
25th Percentile £356 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £497 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.37% -0.70% +2.41%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 136 89
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.60 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.12 £13.98 £20.00
Median hourly rate £20.50 £18.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -34.55% +41.03%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £66.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +63.46%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Engineering in the Midlands

Digital Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Engineering in the Midlands

Digital Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
West Midlands - 4 £575 - 7
East Midlands - 1 - - 5
Digital Engineering
England

Digital Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) AutoCAD
1 2 (40.00%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (40.00%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) GIS
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (20.00%) HBase
1 1 (20.00%) Impala
General
1 1 (20.00%) Automotive
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Communications Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Communications Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Information Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Scala Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) MIDP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (20.00%) Life Science
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Information Management
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Control
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Twin
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (20.00%) Product Management
3 1 (20.00%) Product Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Quality Management
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (40.00%) RIBA
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Chartered Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Hitachi
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft