Digital Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Digital Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Digital Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 378 411
Rank change year-on-year +46 +33 +77
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 11 12 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.085% 0.059% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% 0.070% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 14
10th Percentile £470 - £313
25th Percentile £500 £763 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £775 £350
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +121.43% -46.15%
75th Percentile £600 £788 £514
90th Percentile £684 - £628
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £556
% change year-on-year -8.00% +12.36% -14.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £37.76
25th Percentile - - £37.78
Median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 £40.55
Median % change year-on-year - +13.90% -
75th Percentile - £48.09 £46.29
90th Percentile - £49.24 £51.52
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 £40.55
% change year-on-year - +13.90% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,649 17,108 20,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.43% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,262 10,200 14,248
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.04%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 838 2,053 1,261
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.31 £10.75
25th Percentile £17.26 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.66 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.82 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 16 May 2025. 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 +17 7 £500 - 13
North East -4 4 - - 2
Midlands - 3 £575 - 19
North West +7 2 £620 - 12
West Midlands - 2 £575 - 14
Scotland +7 1 - - 8
Yorkshire - 1 £450 -
East Midlands - 1 - - 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Apigee
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Hive
1 1 (9.09%) Big Data
1 1 (9.09%) GIS
1 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
1 1 (9.09%) HBase
1 1 (9.09%) Impala
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (9.09%) CircleCI
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Automotive
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Information Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Scala Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) MIDP
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth
1 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
1 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
1 1 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Life Science
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Product Roadmap
1 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
2 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
4 1 (9.09%) ETL
4 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Information Management
4 1 (9.09%) Kanban
4 1 (9.09%) Multithreading
4 1 (9.09%) Quality Management
4 1 (9.09%) Regression Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Scrum
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.09%) Time Management
4 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Scala
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) IBM
2 2 (18.18%) Hitachi
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft