Digital Engineering Contract Job Trends in the South West

Digital Engineering
England > South West

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 - 154
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.26% - 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile £556 - -
England median daily rate £540 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -20.00% +3.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -13.38% - -16.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,188 1,658 2,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 81.58% 88.43% 83.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,233 1,020 1,704
10th Percentile £275 £230 £275
25th Percentile £410 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £706 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 380 100 330
10th Percentile £16.56 £19.70 £14.54
25th Percentile £22.69 £47.50 £31.60
Median hourly rate £57.35 £65.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.77% +20.93% -12.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile - £70.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +2.66%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Digital Engineering job vacancy trend in the South West

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Engineering in the South West

Digital Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Digital Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Bristol - 6 £375 - 6
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Digital Engineering
England

Digital Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Datadog
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Validation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Validation
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
2 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (14.29%) Data Security
2 1 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (14.29%) Microservices
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Runbook
2 1 (14.29%) SDLC
2 1 (14.29%) Service Design
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Go
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
1 1 (14.29%) Talend