Digital Twin Contracts

Digital Twin
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 549 698
Rank change year-on-year +64 +149 +136
Contract jobs citing Digital Twin 35 33 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.076% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.088% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 6 11
10th Percentile £449 £413 £569
25th Percentile £456 £452 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £646 £650
Median % change year-on-year -26.50% -0.58% +8.33%
75th Percentile £525 £700 £713
90th Percentile £562 £715 £1,000
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -33.93% +16.67% -
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 excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £92.50
% change year-on-year - -29.73% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
England +66 32 £475 -32.14% 146
UK excluding London +67 23 £463 -33.93% 133
North of England +29 16 £463 -33.93% 24
North West +27 16 £463 -33.93% 12
Work from Home +33 10 £475 -6.63% 41
London +41 8 £510 +20.00% 38
East of England +29 5 - - 21
South West +43 1 - - 19
West Midlands - 1 £600 - 12
Midlands - 1 £600 - 23

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) SAP PP
1 4 (11.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.86%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) AWS
2 13 (37.14%) GitHub
3 10 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (22.86%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (11.43%) dbt
6 2 (5.71%) Azure
6 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.86%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (2.86%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) Ethernet
1 5 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 4 (11.43%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) GIS
2 4 (11.43%) Airbyte
2 4 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (11.43%) ObjectStore
2 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.57%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (5.71%) Metadata
5 1 (2.86%) DTS
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Eclipse
1 6 (17.14%) Visual Studio
2 5 (14.29%) Git
2 5 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.86%) Jasmine
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) JMeter
3 1 (2.86%) Mocha
3 1 (2.86%) Newman
3 1 (2.86%) Pa11y
3 1 (2.86%) Postman
3 1 (2.86%) Selenium
General
1 18 (51.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Military
4 4 (11.43%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Developer
2 6 (17.14%) Architect
2 6 (17.14%) Senior
3 5 (14.29%) C# Software Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Data Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.71%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) GIS Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.71%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Product Manager
6 2 (5.71%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) Node.js
2 6 (17.14%) Kafka
2 6 (17.14%) React
2 6 (17.14%) RESTful
3 5 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 5 (14.29%) Web Services
4 4 (11.43%) OAuth
4 4 (11.43%) OAuth2
4 4 (11.43%) OpenID
4 4 (11.43%) REST
4 4 (11.43%) SAML
5 2 (5.71%) .NET
5 2 (5.71%) GeoJSON
5 2 (5.71%) Google Maps API
5 2 (5.71%) Leaflet
5 2 (5.71%) MapLibre
5 2 (5.71%) Spring
6 1 (2.86%) Jest
6 1 (2.86%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (2.86%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Life Science
1 4 (11.43%) Virtual Team
2 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) IoT
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
1 6 (17.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 21 (60.00%) Visualisation
2 19 (54.29%) CI/CD
2 19 (54.29%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (42.86%) Analytics
3 15 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (31.43%) Agile
5 10 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
6 8 (22.86%) ETL
6 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (22.86%) RBAC
6 8 (22.86%) Unit Testing
7 7 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (17.14%) DevOps
8 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (17.14%) Synthetic Environment
8 6 (17.14%) Validation
9 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 5 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) Python
2 11 (31.43%) JavaScript
3 8 (22.86%) C#
3 8 (22.86%) C++
4 4 (11.43%) SPARQL
4 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.71%) Bash
5 2 (5.71%) Java
5 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (74.29%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (2.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (22.86%) Terraform
3 4 (11.43%) Istio
3 4 (11.43%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) SAP
3 2 (5.71%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) Mapbox
4 1 (2.86%) ESRI