Digital Engineer Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Digital Engineer
Wiltshire > Swindon

The median Digital Engineer daily rate in Swindon is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 0.83% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Swindon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Swindon. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Swindon with a recognized job title 99 73 116
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 81.82% 97.33% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 53 69
10th Percentile £305 £241 £150
25th Percentile £379 £413 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -3.61%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £600
90th Percentile £594 £699 £695
Wiltshire median daily rate £566 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile £20.86 - £14.12
25th Percentile £35.58 - £14.36
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -73.81%
75th Percentile £50.50 - £27.00
90th Percentile £65.10 - £30.25
Wiltshire median hourly rate £24.00 £60.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +263.64% -74.81%

Digital Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Digital Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon.

Digital Engineer job vacancy trend in Swindon

Digital Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon

For the 6 months to 21 March 2026, Digital Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Swindon region featuring Digital Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Complex ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau

Digital Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Complex ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python