Collaborative Engineering Contract Job Trends in the South East

Collaborative Engineering
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Collaborative Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.063% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £625 -
% change year-on-year -24.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Collaborative 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,965 2,838 4,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.70% 90.12% 87.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,612 1,743 2,923
10th Percentile £256 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £614
90th Percentile £693 £675 £694
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 105 355
10th Percentile £13.98 £18.32 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.18 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.08 £42.88 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.52% -9.73% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £63.00
90th Percentile £80.18 £75.30 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Collaborative Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Collaborative Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Collaborative Engineering job vacancy trend in the South East

Collaborative Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Engineering within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 February 2026. 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
Thames Valley - 2 £575 - 5
Oxfordshire - 2 £575 - 3
Hampshire - 1 £450 - 6
Collaborative Engineering
England

Collaborative Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) NGFW
1 1 (33.33%) OSPF
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LangChain
1 1 (33.33%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) LLM
1 2 (66.67%) MLOps
1 2 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
1 2 (66.67%) Rapid Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Mellanox
1 1 (33.33%) NVIDIA
1 1 (33.33%) VMware