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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 532 659
Rank change year-on-year +14 +127 +193
Contract jobs citing Digital Twin 37 48 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.14% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 3
10th Percentile £470 £565 £178
25th Percentile £510 £600 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £588
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +19.15% -2.08%
75th Percentile £638 £730 £803
90th Percentile £653 £750 £921
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £700 £80
% change year-on-year -14.29% +775.00% -86.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 24 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £80.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £86.25
Median % change year-on-year - -24.64% -
75th Percentile - - £101.25
90th Percentile - - £101.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £86.25
% change year-on-year - -24.64% -

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 29,819 34,547 48,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.42% 85.51% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,706 22,222 33,482
10th Percentile £300 £308 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.50% -0.05%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,610 2,049 1,610
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.50 £18.59
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -42.50% - +83.65%

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 26 July 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 8 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 26 July 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 +6 33 £600 -14.29% 57
London +25 15 £600 - 30
Work from Home +14 15 £475 -32.14% 24
UK excluding London -5 14 £600 -14.29% 32
East of England +9 12 - - 6
South West +20 1 - - 1
West Midlands -5 1 £600 +33.33% 2
Midlands -5 1 £600 +33.33% 2

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 (2.70%) ArcGIS
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 5 (13.51%) SAP PP
1 5 (13.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.70%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.70%) SAP PLM
2 1 (2.70%) SAP SCM
2 1 (2.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.41%) Azure
1 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (2.70%) AWS
2 1 (2.70%) GitHub
2 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (32.43%) Ethernet
1 12 (32.43%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) GIS
1 2 (5.41%) Metadata
2 1 (2.70%) DTS
2 1 (2.70%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (35.14%) Eclipse
1 13 (35.14%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 21 (56.76%) Social Skills
2 14 (37.84%) Presentation Skills
3 12 (32.43%) Military
4 10 (27.03%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.41%) Aerospace
5 2 (5.41%) Finance
6 1 (2.70%) Automotive
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Law
6 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Software Engineer
2 13 (35.14%) C# Software Engineer
3 12 (32.43%) C++ Software Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Consultant
5 3 (8.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) SAP Architect
5 3 (8.11%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Developer
6 2 (5.41%) IT Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Product Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Python Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) SAP PP Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) SAP QM Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Senior
7 1 (2.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Research Fellow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (35.14%) Node.js
2 12 (32.43%) Web Services
3 5 (13.51%) Kafka
4 2 (5.41%) Spring
5 1 (2.70%) Express.js
5 1 (2.70%) gRPC
5 1 (2.70%) Middleware
5 1 (2.70%) NestJS
5 1 (2.70%) React
5 1 (2.70%) Redux
5 1 (2.70%) RESTful
5 1 (2.70%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (2.70%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Life Science
2 4 (10.81%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.81%) Operational Technology
2 4 (10.81%) SCADA
3 3 (8.11%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.70%) IoT
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (35.14%) Linux
1 13 (35.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) Agile
1 17 (45.95%) Visualisation
2 16 (43.24%) CI/CD
2 16 (43.24%) Software Engineering
3 15 (40.54%) Validation
4 14 (37.84%) Synthetic Environment
5 13 (35.14%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (32.43%) Continuous Delivery
6 12 (32.43%) TDD
6 12 (32.43%) Unit Testing
6 12 (32.43%) Verification and Validation
7 8 (21.62%) Use Case
8 7 (18.92%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
9 6 (16.22%) Decision-Making
9 6 (16.22%) DevOps
9 6 (16.22%) Machine Learning
9 6 (16.22%) Project Delivery
10 5 (13.51%) Requirements Gathering
10 5 (13.51%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (45.95%) C++
2 13 (35.14%) C#
2 13 (35.14%) JavaScript
3 7 (18.92%) Python
4 2 (5.41%) Bash
4 2 (5.41%) Java
4 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) PhD
3 1 (2.70%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Istio
2 1 (2.70%) Kustomize
2 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.22%) SAP
3 1 (2.70%) ESRI
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.70%) Siemens