Hybrid/Remote Digital Engineering Contract Job Trends

Digital Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Digital Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 312 340
Rank change year-on-year -1 +28 +142
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 7 6 33
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.068% 0.052% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.058% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £283 - £394
25th Percentile £313 - £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +14.29% -30.00%
75th Percentile £438 - £675
90th Percentile £468 - £781
UK median daily rate £618 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +2.92% - -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate £121.77 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +163.69% - -

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 9,299 10,367 15,093
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.82% 89.19% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,130 6,519 10,315
10th Percentile £331 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 210 363
10th Percentile £15.30 £18.04 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £28.32
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.63 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% -34.63% -1.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.01 £70.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Digital Engineering and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Digital Engineering job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Digital Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Digital Engineering

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Digital Engineering over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Digital Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Digital Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Digital Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Digital Engineering

Digital Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) CloudFront
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) BigQuery
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Automotive
2 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Data Architect
2 3 (42.86%) GCP Architect
2 3 (42.86%) GCP Data Architect
3 2 (28.57%) BigQuery Architect
3 2 (28.57%) ETL Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Executive Assistant
4 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) AI
2 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) Digital Innovation
2 3 (42.86%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (14.29%) Cyber Resilience
4 1 (14.29%) Due Diligence
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Service Design
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Debt
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) User Research
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Hitachi
2 3 (42.86%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
3 1 (14.29%) Talend