Digital Engineering Job Trends in the North West

Digital Engineering
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Digital Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 223 273
Rank change year-on-year -11 +50 -159
Permanent jobs citing Digital Engineering 5 4 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.046% 0.089% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.093% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £33,563 - -
25th Percentile £44,907 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -52.94%
75th Percentile £138,750 - £57,813
90th Percentile - - £63,750
England median annual salary £59,490 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.82% +8.70% -23.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Digital Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,860 4,313 7,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 71.79% 95.70% 80.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5,237 1,932 6,200
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Digital Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Digital Engineering job vacancy trend in the North West

Digital Engineering
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Digital Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Digital Engineering

Digital Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Digital Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Digital Engineering in the North West

Digital Engineering
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Engineering within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 May 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Lancashire - 3 £137,500 - 2
Manchester -22 2 £41,750 - 5
Digital Engineering
England

Digital Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Functions
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Google Compute Engine
1 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Digital Director
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Recruitment Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) AutoML
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Physics
3 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Go
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Istio
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) linkerd
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google