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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 786 232 720
Rank change year-on-year -554 +488 +28
Permanent jobs citing Digital Engineering 108 1,606 576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 1.59% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 1.67% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 28 75 156
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,700 £48,750
25th Percentile £45,848 £75,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £93,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.17% +3.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £69,938 £120,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £128,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -26.67% +25.00% +11.63%

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 84,921 96,445 150,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.59% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 59,902 56,808 82,456
10th Percentile £29,010 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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% +10.53%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -521 102 £57,500 -28.13% 71
Work from Home -239 47 £65,000 -23.53% 21
UK excluding London -240 47 £55,000 -26.67% 47
London -227 36 £60,000 -36.00% 22
South West -24 18 £91,500 +14.38% 8
North of England -150 13 £40,000 -46.67% 17
North West -160 8 £40,000 -57.89% 13
East of England +22 6 £60,000 +118.18% 6
Scotland -87 5 - - 3
Yorkshire +72 4 - - 2
West Midlands -16 4 £50,945 +52.07% 2
Midlands -40 4 £50,945 +52.07% 5
South East +6 1 - - 7
North East - 1 £57,500 - 1

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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 8 (7.41%) Apache
2 8 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 7 (6.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.70%) SAP SCM
3 3 (2.78%) SAP CRM
3 3 (2.78%) SAP CX
3 3 (2.78%) SAP GTS
3 3 (2.78%) SAP SD
3 3 (2.78%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.93%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 35 (32.41%) Azure
2 29 (26.85%) AWS
3 19 (17.59%) GCP
4 11 (10.19%) IaaS
4 11 (10.19%) PaaS
4 11 (10.19%) Serverless
5 9 (8.33%) GitHub
6 8 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (6.48%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
8 6 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (4.63%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (4.63%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.63%) SaaS
10 3 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.93%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.19%) Network Security
2 4 (3.70%) Wireless
3 3 (2.78%) DNS
3 3 (2.78%) Firewall
4 2 (1.85%) Broadband
4 2 (1.85%) Converged Networks
4 2 (1.85%) LAN
4 2 (1.85%) SAN
4 2 (1.85%) VPN
4 2 (1.85%) WAN
5 1 (0.93%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.04%) NoSQL
2 12 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 9 (8.33%) Big Data
4 8 (7.41%) Apache Hive
4 8 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (7.41%) Flink
4 8 (7.41%) Hadoop
4 8 (7.41%) Parquet
5 4 (3.70%) QGIS
6 3 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 16 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 10 (9.26%) Git
3 8 (7.41%) CircleCI
4 6 (5.56%) GitLab
4 6 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (5.56%) Rational Rhapsody
4 6 (5.56%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.93%) Grunt
5 1 (0.93%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.93%) Mocha
5 1 (0.93%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.93%) webpack
General
1 41 (37.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 20 (18.52%) Aerospace
4 15 (13.89%) Finance
4 15 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 13 (12.04%) Manufacturing
6 11 (10.19%) Banking
7 10 (9.26%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (8.33%) Marketing
8 9 (8.33%) Retail
8 9 (8.33%) Retail Banking
9 8 (7.41%) Aviation
10 7 (6.48%) Military
11 4 (3.70%) German Language
11 4 (3.70%) Japanese Language
11 4 (3.70%) Law
11 4 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (3.70%) Spanish Language
12 3 (2.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (18.52%) Consultant
1 20 (18.52%) Senior
2 19 (17.59%) Architect
3 14 (12.96%) Data Engineer
3 14 (12.96%) Lead
4 8 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
5 7 (6.48%) Azure Architect
5 7 (6.48%) SAP Consultant
5 7 (6.48%) Technical Architect
6 5 (4.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (4.63%) Azure Consultant
6 5 (4.63%) Data Scientist
6 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Consultant
6 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Presales Consultant
6 5 (4.63%) Presales Consultant
6 5 (4.63%) Principal Data Engineer
6 5 (4.63%) Principal Data Scientist
6 5 (4.63%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
7 4 (3.70%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.26%) Kafka
2 9 (8.33%) Spark Streaming
3 8 (7.41%) Apache Avro
3 8 (7.41%) Apache Beam
3 8 (7.41%) PySpark
4 6 (5.56%) PyTorch
4 6 (5.56%) scikit-learn
4 6 (5.56%) TensorFlow
5 5 (4.63%) .NET
5 5 (4.63%) ARM Templates
5 5 (4.63%) MXNet
6 4 (3.70%) CSS
7 3 (2.78%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.78%) HTML
7 3 (2.78%) React
8 2 (1.85%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.85%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (1.85%) Node.js
8 2 (1.85%) SAPUI5
8 2 (1.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.19%) IoT
2 9 (8.33%) Distributed Applications
2 9 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (6.48%) Cloud Native
4 7 (6.48%) Virtual Team
5 6 (5.56%) Mobile App
6 5 (4.63%) iPhone
7 4 (3.70%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.70%) Animation
7 4 (3.70%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.78%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.78%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.85%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.85%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.85%) Social Media
10 1 (0.93%) Media Streaming
10 1 (0.93%) STB
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.41%) Apple iOS
1 8 (7.41%) Windows
2 6 (5.56%) VMS
3 3 (2.78%) Android
4 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.93%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.93%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (41.67%) Agile
2 27 (25.00%) Analytics
2 27 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 27 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (22.22%) DevOps
4 23 (21.30%) Software Engineering
5 22 (20.37%) CI/CD
5 22 (20.37%) Project Management
6 20 (18.52%) People Management
7 17 (15.74%) Computer Science
7 17 (15.74%) Machine Learning
8 15 (13.89%) Data Analytics
9 14 (12.96%) PLM
9 14 (12.96%) Roadmaps
10 13 (12.04%) Coaching
10 13 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (12.04%) Data Transformation
10 13 (12.04%) Mentoring
10 13 (12.04%) Thought Leadership
11 12 (11.11%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.04%) SQL
2 11 (10.19%) Java
2 11 (10.19%) Python
3 9 (8.33%) Scala
4 7 (6.48%) Bash
5 6 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.63%) Bicep
7 4 (3.70%) Go
7 4 (3.70%) Ruby
8 3 (2.78%) C#
9 1 (0.93%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 38 (35.19%) Security Cleared
2 24 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 20 (18.52%) Degree
4 8 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (6.48%) CISSP
5 7 (6.48%) PhD
6 5 (4.63%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.70%) CEH
7 4 (3.70%) GSEC
7 4 (3.70%) OSCP
8 3 (2.78%) CCNA
8 3 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.85%) CISM
9 2 (1.85%) CRISC
10 1 (0.93%) CISA
10 1 (0.93%) CWNA
10 1 (0.93%) CWSP
10 1 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.41%) QA
2 7 (6.48%) DO-254
3 6 (5.56%) NIST
4 4 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.85%) ISO 31000
6 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.93%) GDPR
6 1 (0.93%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (9.26%) Docker
2 8 (7.41%) HDFS
3 6 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.85%) SRDF
5 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (12.04%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.11%) Terraform
3 2 (1.85%) SCCM
4 1 (0.93%) Ansible
4 1 (0.93%) MOM
4 1 (0.93%) WMI
Vendors
1 16 (14.81%) Databricks
2 15 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.33%) Cloudera
4 7 (6.48%) ANSYS
4 7 (6.48%) Google
4 7 (6.48%) SAP
5 6 (5.56%) IBM
6 5 (4.63%) Dataiku
7 4 (3.70%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.85%) Brocade
8 2 (1.85%) Cisco
8 2 (1.85%) EMC
8 2 (1.85%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.93%) Adobe
9 1 (0.93%) Hortonworks
9 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.93%) New Relic
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle
9 1 (0.93%) Remedy
9 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow