Synthetic Environment Contracts

Synthetic Environment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Synthetic Environment skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Synthetic Environment over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 529 648
Rank change year-on-year -2 +119 +153
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Synthetic Environment 24 48 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.12% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.14% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £595 - £675
25th Percentile £625 - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £775
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.81%
75th Percentile £675 - £838
90th Percentile - - £875
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £775
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 33 5
10th Percentile - - £65.10
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% +0.77%
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - £85.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year - -0.76% +0.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Synthetic Environment 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,733 33,188 46,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.47% 85.40% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,494 21,177 31,836
10th Percentile £300 £310 £319
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,733 1,774 1,517
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.15 £18.57
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% +0.86% +53.17%
75th Percentile £49.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £76.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £42.50 £35.75
% change year-on-year -45.88% +18.88% +63.43%

Synthetic Environment
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Synthetic Environment as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Synthetic Environment in the UK

Synthetic Environment
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Synthetic Environment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Synthetic Environment

Synthetic Environment
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Synthetic Environment.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Synthetic Environment

Synthetic Environment
Top 7 DemandTrendContract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Synthetic Environment within the UK over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -9 22 £650 - 30
UK excluding London -16 19 - - 27
East of England -2 16 - - 11
Work from Home +40 15 - - 8
London - 5 £650 - 4
Scotland - 2 - -
South West +17 1 - - 11

Synthetic Environment
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:

Communications & Networking
1 16 (66.67%) Ethernet
1 16 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (70.83%) Eclipse
1 17 (70.83%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 17 (70.83%) Presentation Skills
1 17 (70.83%) Social Skills
2 16 (66.67%) Military
3 2 (8.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (70.83%) C# Software Engineer
1 17 (70.83%) Software Engineer
2 13 (54.17%) C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Data Scientist
4 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Radar Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) React Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Synthetic Environment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (70.83%) Node.js
2 16 (66.67%) Web Services
3 1 (4.17%) Express.js
3 1 (4.17%) GatsbyJS
3 1 (4.17%) gRPC
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) NestJS
3 1 (4.17%) React
3 1 (4.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (70.83%) Linux
1 17 (70.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) Validation
2 18 (75.00%) Digital Twin
2 18 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 18 (75.00%) Verification and Validation
3 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 16 (66.67%) Visualisation
4 15 (62.50%) Agile
4 15 (62.50%) Continuous Delivery
4 15 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
4 15 (62.50%) TDD
4 15 (62.50%) Unit Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Data Science
5 4 (16.67%) Decision Intelligence
5 4 (16.67%) Mathematics
5 4 (16.67%) Storytelling
6 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 2 (8.33%) Conceptual Models
7 2 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (8.33%) Mathematical Modelling
7 2 (8.33%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (70.83%) C#
1 17 (70.83%) C++
2 16 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (4.17%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
1 4 (16.67%) PhD
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (70.83%) Microsoft