Digital Engineering Contract Job Trends in the South East

Digital Engineering
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Digital Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 32 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.49% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 19 0 0
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £526 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £591 - -
90th Percentile £604 - -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £83.00 - -
75th Percentile £84.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £83.00 £47.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.60% +1.78% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,304 3,126 3,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.57% 89.24% 82.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,222 1,943 2,345
10th Percentile £280 £232 £260
25th Percentile £419 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.66%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £638
90th Percentile £706 £664 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 607 305 293
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.50 £27.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £22.07 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +137.88% -61.52% +10.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.00 £70.39
90th Percentile £87.83 £69.65 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Digital Engineering job vacancy trend in the South East

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Digital Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Digital Engineering

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Engineering in the South East

Digital Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Digital Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Digital Engineering

Digital 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 Digital Engineering within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 September 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 - 28 £575 - 31
Berkshire - 28 £575 - 27
West Sussex - 1 - - 2
Hampshire - 1 - - 3
Kent - 1 £900 - 7
Digital Engineering
England

Digital 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Kinematics
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
2 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.13%) Serverless
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Metadata
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Rational DOORS
General
1 28 (87.50%) Aerospace
2 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 10 (31.25%) Manufacturing
4 4 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Aviation
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (65.63%) Delivery Manager
2 14 (43.75%) Product Delivery Manager
2 14 (43.75%) Product Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Engineering Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Lead
4 3 (9.38%) Principal Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Principal Security Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Product Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Security Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Digital Delivery Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Digital Product Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Environment Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Product Owner
6 1 (3.13%) Products Support Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) Middleware
2 1 (3.13%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.13%) REST
2 1 (3.13%) SwiftUI
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Virtual Team
2 4 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.13%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Agile
1 16 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 16 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 14 (43.75%) Computer Science
2 14 (43.75%) PRINCE2
3 13 (40.63%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 12 (37.50%) ITIL
5 11 (34.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (31.25%) Service Management
7 8 (25.00%) Change Management
7 8 (25.00%) Validation
8 7 (21.88%) Configuration Management
8 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (21.88%) Systems Engineering
9 6 (18.75%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 6 (18.75%) Digital Enablement
10 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (15.63%) DevSecOps
10 5 (15.63%) PLM
10 5 (15.63%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.13%) Objective-C
1 1 (3.13%) SQL
1 1 (3.13%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (84.38%) Security Cleared
2 24 (75.00%) Degree
3 16 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (9.38%) NIST
1 3 (9.38%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.13%) ARP4761
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) DICOM
2 1 (3.13%) DO-160
2 1 (3.13%) DO-254
2 1 (3.13%) HL7
2 1 (3.13%) IEC 61508
2 1 (3.13%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) MOM
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) EMC
2 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
2 1 (3.13%) Hitachi
2 1 (3.13%) IBM