Digital Engineering Jobs

Digital Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Digital Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Digital Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 665 815 236
Rank change year-on-year +150 -579 +471
Permanent jobs citing Digital Engineering 46 95 1,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.093% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.090% 0.11% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 14 27 63
10th Percentile £47,465 £40,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £53,125 £45,848 £52,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -36.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £126,500 £65,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £145,000 £97,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £56,250 £44,345
% change year-on-year +6.67% +26.85% -26.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Digital Engineering in the UK

Digital Engineering
Top 12 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 28 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +108 39 £60,000 +4.35% 161
London +113 22 £140,000 +138.30% 76
UK excluding London +165 19 £60,000 +6.67% 96
Work from Home +92 10 £55,000 -15.38% 84
West Midlands +68 7 £53,300 +4.62% 18
Midlands +64 7 £53,300 +4.62% 23
North of England +31 4 - - 11
North West -3 4 - - 11
South East +92 3 - - 21
East of England +39 2 £60,000 - 8
Wales - 2 £69,000 - 5
South West +99 1 £60,000 -34.43% 17

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 5 (10.87%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (10.87%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.52%) ArcGIS
3 2 (4.35%) nginx
4 1 (2.17%) CMS
4 1 (2.17%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 8 (17.39%) ProjectWise
2 3 (6.52%) AutoCAD
2 3 (6.52%) Blender
2 3 (6.52%) Revit
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.17%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 27 (58.70%) Azure
2 22 (47.83%) AWS
2 22 (47.83%) GCP
3 9 (19.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (17.39%) Pulumi
5 7 (15.22%) Amazon S3
6 5 (10.87%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (10.87%) Power Platform
6 5 (10.87%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (4.35%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.35%) Figma
7 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.35%) Serverless
7 2 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Firewall
1 3 (6.52%) Internet
2 2 (4.35%) DNS
2 2 (4.35%) Network Security
2 2 (4.35%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (2.17%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) GIS
2 7 (15.22%) BigQuery
2 7 (15.22%) Data Lake
2 7 (15.22%) NoSQL
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (10.87%) Apache Hive
3 5 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (10.87%) Hadoop
3 5 (10.87%) Power BI
3 5 (10.87%) Sqoop
4 3 (6.52%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Git
2 7 (15.22%) Jenkins
3 6 (13.04%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.17%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (2.17%) JIRA
4 1 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.17%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.17%) Travis CI
General
1 14 (30.43%) Finance
2 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Banking
4 5 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (8.70%) Advertising
6 3 (6.52%) Automotive
6 3 (6.52%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.35%) Legal
8 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Electronics
8 1 (2.17%) Marketing
8 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Retail
8 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (45.65%) Senior
2 6 (13.04%) Data Engineer
2 6 (13.04%) Head of Digital
2 6 (13.04%) Head of Engineering
2 6 (13.04%) Lead
3 5 (10.87%) Consultant
3 5 (10.87%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 4 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Digital Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Consultant
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Data Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Principal Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) Loki
2 5 (10.87%) Kafka
2 5 (10.87%) OAuth
2 5 (10.87%) PySpark
2 5 (10.87%) Spark Streaming
3 3 (6.52%) .NET
3 3 (6.52%) Leaflet
3 3 (6.52%) PostGIS
4 2 (4.35%) MIDP
4 2 (4.35%) React
5 1 (2.17%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.17%) CSS
5 1 (2.17%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.17%) HTML
5 1 (2.17%) JSON
5 1 (2.17%) Node.js
5 1 (2.17%) SOAP
5 1 (2.17%) XML
5 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Algorithms
2 7 (15.22%) Data Structures
3 5 (10.87%) Distributed Applications
3 5 (10.87%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (10.87%) Management Information System
4 4 (8.70%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.70%) IoT
4 4 (8.70%) NHS
5 3 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (6.52%) Life Science
6 1 (2.17%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Android
1 2 (4.35%) Apple iOS
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
1 2 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (41.30%) CI/CD
1 19 (41.30%) Mentoring
2 16 (34.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (32.61%) Agile
4 14 (30.43%) DevOps
5 13 (28.26%) Containerisation
5 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (23.91%) Artificial Intelligence
6 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (23.91%) Validation
7 10 (21.74%) Continuous Deployment
7 10 (21.74%) Observability
8 9 (19.57%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (19.57%) Machine Learning
8 9 (19.57%) Project Delivery
9 8 (17.39%) Customer Requirements
9 8 (17.39%) Data Engineering
9 8 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (17.39%) Presales
9 8 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (54.35%) Python
2 10 (21.74%) Go
3 9 (19.57%) SQL
4 8 (17.39%) Bash
5 7 (15.22%) Java
6 5 (10.87%) Scala
7 4 (8.70%) C#
8 3 (6.52%) R
9 2 (4.35%) Bicep
9 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
9 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
10 1 (2.17%) MATLAB
10 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) Degree
2 3 (6.52%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (4.35%) MCAD
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) Apache Flume
2 4 (8.70%) Docker
3 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (36.96%) Terraform
2 12 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 8 (17.39%) Grafana
4 5 (10.87%) Oozie
5 1 (2.17%) Automic
5 1 (2.17%) Consul
5 1 (2.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (36.96%) Hitachi
2 5 (10.87%) Cloudera
2 5 (10.87%) Databricks
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.70%) Google
4 3 (6.52%) Autodesk
5 2 (4.35%) IBM
6 1 (2.17%) DataCore
6 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow