Digital Twin Contracts in the UK excluding London

Digital Twin
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Digital Twin skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Twin over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 380 438
Rank change year-on-year +64 +58 +63
Contract jobs citing Digital Twin 23 19 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.092% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.11% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 5
10th Percentile £438 £610 £277
25th Percentile £456 £668 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -33.93% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £525 £708 £713
90th Percentile - £721 -
UK median daily rate £475 £646 £650
% change year-on-year -26.50% -0.58% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 4
10th Percentile £62.75 - £81.13
25th Percentile - - £82.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year - -29.73% -
75th Percentile - - £101.56
90th Percentile £65.45 - £102.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £92.50
% change year-on-year - -29.73% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Digital Twin 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 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Digital Twin
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Twin in the UK excluding London

Digital Twin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Twin in the UK excluding London

Digital Twin
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Twin in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Twin in the UK excluding London

Digital Twin
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Twin in the UK excluding London

Digital Twin
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 Twin within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +33 16 £463 -33.93% 24
North West +24 16 £463 -33.93% 13
East of England +28 5 - - 20
South West +40 1 - - 21
West Midlands - 1 £600 - 12
Midlands - 1 £600 - 23
Digital Twin
UK

Digital Twin
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 15 (65.22%) AWS
2 11 (47.83%) GitHub
3 9 (39.13%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (30.43%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (17.39%) dbt
6 1 (4.35%) Azure
6 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Ethernet
1 5 (21.74%) TCP/IP
2 3 (13.04%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Airbyte
1 4 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (17.39%) GIS
1 4 (17.39%) ObjectStore
1 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (17.39%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.04%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Eclipse
1 6 (26.09%) Visual Studio
2 4 (17.39%) Git
2 4 (17.39%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) Jasmine
3 1 (4.35%) Mocha
General
1 14 (60.87%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Military
4 1 (4.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Developer
1 6 (26.09%) Senior
2 5 (21.74%) C# Software Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Software Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Data Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Data Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.70%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 2 (8.70%) GIS Developer
5 2 (8.70%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) Node.js
2 5 (21.74%) AngularJS
2 5 (21.74%) React
2 5 (21.74%) RESTful
2 5 (21.74%) Web Services
3 4 (17.39%) Kafka
3 4 (17.39%) OAuth
3 4 (17.39%) OAuth2
3 4 (17.39%) OpenID
3 4 (17.39%) REST
3 4 (17.39%) SAML
4 2 (8.70%) .NET
4 2 (8.70%) GeoJSON
4 2 (8.70%) Google Maps API
4 2 (8.70%) Leaflet
4 2 (8.70%) MapLibre
5 1 (4.35%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) Visualisation
2 16 (69.57%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (65.22%) Containerisation
4 14 (60.87%) Analytics
4 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
4 14 (60.87%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (39.13%) Continuous Deployment
6 8 (34.78%) ETL
6 8 (34.78%) RBAC
6 8 (34.78%) Unit Testing
7 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (26.09%) Agile
8 6 (26.09%) Synthetic Environment
9 5 (21.74%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
9 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (21.74%) TDD
10 4 (17.39%) Architectural Design
10 4 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (17.39%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) JavaScript
2 8 (34.78%) C#
2 8 (34.78%) Python
3 6 (26.09%) C++
4 4 (17.39%) SPARQL
5 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (86.96%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Kubernetes
2 7 (30.43%) Terraform
3 3 (13.04%) Istio
3 3 (13.04%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Mapbox