Digital Twin Contracts

Digital Twin
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Digital Twin skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Twin over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 673 827
Rank change year-on-year +124 +154 -140
Contract jobs citing Digital Twin 36 20 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.034% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% 0.038% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 15
10th Percentile £413 £569 £536
25th Percentile £452 £586 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £646 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% +8.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £713 £700
90th Percentile £715 £1,000 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +16.67% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 £92.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.73% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £92.50 -
% change year-on-year -29.73% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Digital Twin 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Digital Twin
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Digital Twin as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Twin in the UK

Digital Twin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Twin.

Daily rate trend for Digital Twin in the UK

Digital Twin
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Twin over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Twin in the UK

Digital Twin
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Twin.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Twin in the UK

Digital Twin
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 May 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
England +115 26 £700 +16.67% 29
UK excluding London +83 22 £700 +16.67% 22
Work from Home +133 18 £509 -24.63% 10
East of England +10 8 - - 1
North of England +29 6 £700 +3.70% 4
North West +27 6 £700 +3.70% 3
London +90 5 £425 -33.98% 4
South West +16 5 - - 6
South East - 2 £730 - 9
Scotland - 1 £593 -

Digital Twin
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (8.33%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (5.56%) Azure Functions
2 2 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.78%) Ethernet
1 10 (27.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.78%) IDMS
3 1 (2.78%) Metadata
3 1 (2.78%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 10 (27.78%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.78%) ERwin
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 12 (33.33%) Finance
3 11 (30.56%) Military
3 11 (30.56%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Law
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Architect
2 11 (30.56%) C# Software Engineer
2 11 (30.56%) Software Engineer
3 10 (27.78%) Digital Architect
4 8 (22.22%) C++ Software Engineer
4 8 (22.22%) Data Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Information Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Senior
7 1 (2.78%) C# Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Lead Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Programme Director
7 1 (2.78%) Programme Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Project Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Senior Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Senior Project Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Supply Chain Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) Web Services
2 10 (27.78%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Industry 4.0
1 4 (11.11%) Taxonomies
2 3 (8.33%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.78%) IoT
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (33.33%) Linux
1 12 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) Agile
2 12 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 12 (33.33%) Synthetic Environment
3 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 10 (27.78%) Continuous Delivery
3 10 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (27.78%) TDD
3 10 (27.78%) Unit Testing
3 10 (27.78%) Validation
3 10 (27.78%) Verification and Validation
3 10 (27.78%) Visualisation
4 9 (25.00%) Change Management
4 9 (25.00%) Use Case
5 7 (19.44%) Analytics
6 6 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 6 (16.67%) Machine Learning
7 5 (13.89%) Data Governance
7 5 (13.89%) Data Integration
7 5 (13.89%) Data Strategy
8 4 (11.11%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) C#
1 12 (33.33%) C++
2 10 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
1 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) IBM
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle
2 1 (2.78%) SAP