Digital Engineering Contract Job Trends in Reading

Digital Engineering
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Digital Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Berkshire median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £121.77 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £121.77 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 653 931 950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.70% 91.27% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 527 620
10th Percentile £350 £317 £213
25th Percentile £431 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £615 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £698 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 7 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £27.90 £41.24
25th Percentile £24.81 £35.75 £59.89
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -9.15% -2.63%
75th Percentile £94.06 £63.24 £65.25
90th Percentile £99.25 £68.78 £66.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.45
% change year-on-year -31.47% -3.98% +29.36%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Digital Engineering job vacancy trend in Reading

Digital Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Chief Information Security Officer
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Information
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Security
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared