Digital Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Digital Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Digital Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Engineering over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 435 486
Rank change year-on-year +54 +51 -68
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 12 24 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.100% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.11% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 17
10th Percentile - £313 £450
25th Percentile £763 £341 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £350 £590
Median % change year-on-year +121.43% -40.68% +42.17%
75th Percentile £788 £388 £738
90th Percentile - £658 £813
UK median daily rate £638 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +6.25% -7.69% +44.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £41.50 -
25th Percentile - £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £46.18 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -
75th Percentile £48.09 £51.25 -
90th Percentile £49.24 £53.50 -
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £47.50 -
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Digital Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,621 21,550 27,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.74% 89.52% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,547 14,954 19,191
10th Percentile £246 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,041 1,307 1,363
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.10
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Digital Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Engineering in the UK excluding London

Digital Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Digital Engineering in the UK excluding London

Digital Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Engineering in the UK excluding London

Digital Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
North of England +34 8 - - 18
North East - 7 - - 3
Scotland +37 3 £775 +55.00% 2
North West +26 3 - - 13
South West +5 1 - - 6
Digital Engineering
UK

Digital Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Git
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Technical Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Development Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) PyTorch
1 7 (58.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) DevOps
1 9 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 8 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 7 (58.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (58.33%) GitOps
3 7 (58.33%) Machine Learning
3 7 (58.33%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 2 (16.67%) ERP
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) Change Management
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (8.33%) Integration Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Security Operations
5 1 (8.33%) SIEM
5 1 (8.33%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) CISSP
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft