Digital Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Digital Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 787 247 707
Rank change year-on-year -540 +460 +48
Permanent jobs citing Digital Engineering 109 1,552 589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 1.48% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 1.55% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 28 78 142
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,371 £47,500
25th Percentile £45,848 £75,000 £63,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £93,750 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year -38.67% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £69,938 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £132,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -26.67% +25.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Digital Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Digital Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Engineering in the UK

Digital Engineering
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Digital Engineering.

Salary trend for Digital Engineering in the UK

Digital Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Digital Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Digital Engineering in the UK

Digital Engineering
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England -500 104 £57,500 -28.13% 59
Work from Home -213 50 £65,000 -29.73% 12
UK excluding London -222 46 £55,000 -26.67% 36
London -204 35 £60,000 -35.48% 20
South West +7 18 £91,500 - 6
North of England -134 13 £40,000 -46.67% 16
North West -139 9 £40,000 -57.89% 11
East of England +15 6 £60,000 +118.18% 4
West Midlands -3 4 £50,945 +52.07% 3
Midlands -29 4 £50,945 +52.07% 6
Scotland -92 4 - - 2
Yorkshire +81 3 - - 1
South East +31 1 - - 3
North East - 1 £57,500 - 3

Digital Engineering
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 9 (8.26%) Apache Spark
2 8 (7.34%) Apache
2 8 (7.34%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 9 (8.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.59%) SAP CRM
2 5 (4.59%) SAP CX
2 5 (4.59%) SAP GTS
2 5 (4.59%) SAP SD
2 5 (4.59%) SAP WM
3 4 (3.67%) SAP SCM
4 2 (1.83%) SAP MM
4 2 (1.83%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.92%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 40 (36.70%) Azure
2 30 (27.52%) AWS
3 22 (20.18%) GCP
4 12 (11.01%) IaaS
4 12 (11.01%) PaaS
4 12 (11.01%) Serverless
5 10 (9.17%) GitHub
6 8 (7.34%) Amazon SageMaker
6 8 (7.34%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (6.42%) Azure Machine Learning
7 7 (6.42%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (6.42%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (4.59%) Power Platform
8 5 (4.59%) SaaS
9 3 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.83%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.09%) Network Security
2 4 (3.67%) Firewall
3 3 (2.75%) DNS
3 3 (2.75%) LAN
3 3 (2.75%) WAN
3 3 (2.75%) Wireless
4 2 (1.83%) Broadband
4 2 (1.83%) Converged Networks
4 2 (1.83%) SAN
4 2 (1.83%) VPN
5 1 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.92%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.92%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.92%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.92%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.01%) Data Lake
1 12 (11.01%) NoSQL
2 9 (8.26%) Big Data
3 8 (7.34%) Apache Hive
3 8 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (7.34%) Flink
3 8 (7.34%) Hadoop
3 8 (7.34%) Parquet
4 4 (3.67%) QGIS
5 3 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 17 (15.60%) Jenkins
2 11 (10.09%) Git
3 8 (7.34%) CircleCI
4 7 (6.42%) GitLab
4 7 (6.42%) Octopus Deploy
4 7 (6.42%) TeamCity
5 6 (5.50%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.92%) Spinnaker
General
1 38 (34.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 23 (21.10%) Social Skills
3 17 (15.60%) Public Sector
4 16 (14.68%) Aerospace
5 13 (11.93%) Finance
5 13 (11.93%) Manufacturing
6 12 (11.01%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (10.09%) Marketing
8 10 (9.17%) Banking
9 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (8.26%) Retail
10 8 (7.34%) Aviation
10 8 (7.34%) Retail Banking
11 7 (6.42%) Military
12 4 (3.67%) German Language
12 4 (3.67%) Japanese Language
12 4 (3.67%) Law
12 4 (3.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (3.67%) Spanish Language
13 2 (1.83%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (20.18%) Consultant
2 21 (19.27%) Senior
3 16 (14.68%) Architect
3 16 (14.68%) Data Engineer
4 13 (11.93%) Lead
5 9 (8.26%) SAP Consultant
5 9 (8.26%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (6.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 7 (6.42%) Azure Architect
6 7 (6.42%) Data Scientist
7 6 (5.50%) Principal Data Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Principal Data Scientist
7 6 (5.50%) Principal Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Senior Consultant
8 5 (4.59%) Azure Consultant
8 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Consultant
8 5 (4.59%) Presales Consultant
8 5 (4.59%) SAP SD Consultant
8 5 (4.59%) Senior SAP Consultant
8 5 (4.59%) Senior SAP SD Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.17%) Kafka
2 9 (8.26%) Spark Streaming
3 8 (7.34%) Apache Avro
3 8 (7.34%) Apache Beam
3 8 (7.34%) PySpark
3 8 (7.34%) PyTorch
3 8 (7.34%) scikit-learn
3 8 (7.34%) TensorFlow
4 7 (6.42%) MXNet
5 6 (5.50%) .NET
6 5 (4.59%) ARM Templates
7 3 (2.75%) CSS
7 3 (2.75%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.75%) HTML
7 3 (2.75%) JSON
8 2 (1.83%) Node.js
8 2 (1.83%) React
8 2 (1.83%) RESTful
8 2 (1.83%) SAPUI5
8 2 (1.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.26%) IoT
2 8 (7.34%) Distributed Applications
2 8 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (7.34%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (7.34%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (7.34%) Virtual Team
3 7 (6.42%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.42%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.59%) iPhone
5 4 (3.67%) Animation
5 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.75%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.75%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.83%) Blog
7 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.83%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.83%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.83%) Social Media
8 1 (0.92%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.92%) STB
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.17%) Windows
2 7 (6.42%) Apple iOS
2 7 (6.42%) VMS
3 2 (1.83%) Android
4 1 (0.92%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.92%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.92%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (42.20%) Agile
2 31 (28.44%) Artificial Intelligence
3 27 (24.77%) Analytics
3 27 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (22.94%) DevOps
4 25 (22.94%) People Management
4 25 (22.94%) Software Engineering
5 23 (21.10%) CI/CD
6 19 (17.43%) Machine Learning
7 17 (15.60%) Project Management
8 16 (14.68%) Computer Science
8 16 (14.68%) Data Analytics
8 16 (14.68%) Roadmaps
9 15 (13.76%) Thought Leadership
10 14 (12.84%) Mentoring
11 12 (11.01%) Data Transformation
11 12 (11.01%) Project Delivery
12 11 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (10.09%) Decision-Making
13 10 (9.17%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.84%) SQL
2 13 (11.93%) Python
3 12 (11.01%) Java
4 9 (8.26%) Scala
5 8 (7.34%) Bash
6 7 (6.42%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.50%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.59%) Bicep
9 4 (3.67%) C#
9 4 (3.67%) Go
9 4 (3.67%) Ruby
10 1 (0.92%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 45 (41.28%) Security Cleared
2 28 (25.69%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.76%) Degree
4 11 (10.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (6.42%) CISSP
6 5 (4.59%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.67%) CEH
7 4 (3.67%) GSEC
7 4 (3.67%) OSCP
8 3 (2.75%) CCNA
8 3 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.75%) PhD
9 2 (1.83%) CISM
9 2 (1.83%) CRISC
10 1 (0.92%) CCSP
10 1 (0.92%) CISA
10 1 (0.92%) CWNA
10 1 (0.92%) CWSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) DO-254
1 7 (6.42%) QA
2 6 (5.50%) NIST
3 4 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.83%) ISO 31000
5 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.92%) GDPR
5 1 (0.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (10.09%) Docker
2 8 (7.34%) HDFS
3 7 (6.42%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.83%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.83%) SRDF
5 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (14.68%) Terraform
2 13 (11.93%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.75%) SCCM
4 2 (1.83%) Ansible
5 1 (0.92%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.92%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.92%) WMI
Vendors
1 18 (16.51%) Databricks
2 17 (15.60%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.17%) Google
4 9 (8.26%) Cloudera
4 9 (8.26%) SAP
5 7 (6.42%) Dataiku
6 6 (5.50%) IBM
7 4 (3.67%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.75%) ANSYS
8 3 (2.75%) Cisco
9 2 (1.83%) Brocade
9 2 (1.83%) EMC
9 2 (1.83%) Hitachi
9 2 (1.83%) Oracle
10 1 (0.92%) Adobe
10 1 (0.92%) Blue Coat
10 1 (0.92%) CA
10 1 (0.92%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.92%) Remedy
10 1 (0.92%) VMware