Digital Engineering Contract Job Trends in Preston

Digital Engineering
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston 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 19 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 2 0 11
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 2.38% - 12.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% - 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £550 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - £37.80
25th Percentile - - £41.99
Median hourly rate - - £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median hourly rate - £46.18 £46.18

All Process and Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 75 39 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 89.29% 82.98% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 17 35
10th Percentile £304 £200 £298
25th Percentile £420 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% +35.29% +28.79%
75th Percentile £629 £614 £500
90th Percentile £680 £629 £625
Lancashire median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 44
10th Percentile £26.26 £24.48 £20.58
25th Percentile - £28.23 £21.84
Median hourly rate £41.94 £44.13 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -4.45% +22.17%
75th Percentile £47.12 £63.59 £51.63
90th Percentile £73.44 £67.84 £74.33
Lancashire median hourly rate £63.20 £40.33 £46.18
% change year-on-year +56.73% -12.68% +22.19%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Digital Engineering job vacancy trend in Preston

Digital Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

Digital Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCDP
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware