Digital Engineering Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Digital Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Digital Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Engineering 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 295 335 433
Rank change year-on-year +40 +98 +151
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 9 10 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.065% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.100% 0.074% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £476 £825 £450
25th Percentile £497 £919 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £1,125 £600
Median % change year-on-year -52.22% +87.50% -6.25%
75th Percentile £572 £1,369 £675
90th Percentile £589 £1,485 £705
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £41.50
25th Percentile £66.25 - £43.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £47.50
75th Percentile £68.75 - £51.25
90th Percentile - - £53.50
UK median hourly rate £56.84 £46.18 £47.50
% change year-on-year +23.08% -2.78% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Digital Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Digital Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Digital Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Digital Engineering trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Digital Engineering.

Digital Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Digital Engineering over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Digital Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Digital Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (11.11%) Apache Spark
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Hive
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) GIS
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 1 (11.11%) HBase
1 1 (11.11%) Impala
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) MagicDraw
1 1 (11.11%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 4 (44.44%) Automotive
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Manufacturing
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) C Software Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) C/C++ Software Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) C++ Software Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Product Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Implementation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Scala Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
1 1 (11.11%) OpenID
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Life Science
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Microservices
1 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (22.22%) Product Management
1 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Agile
2 1 (11.11%) API Integration
2 1 (11.11%) Backlog Management
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Data Management
2 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Twin
2 1 (11.11%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Product Strategy
2 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Scrum
2 1 (11.11%) SDLC
2 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) C
1 2 (22.22%) C++
1 2 (22.22%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Scala
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Istio
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) PTC Integrity
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Hitachi
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Okta
3 1 (11.11%) PTC
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 1 (11.11%) Sparx