Digital Engineering Contracts in England

Digital Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Digital Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Digital Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 528 700
Rank change year-on-year +30 +172 +28
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 16 61 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.051% 0.15% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% 0.17% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 30
10th Percentile - £478 £456
25th Percentile - £506 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £569 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% -12.50% +10.64%
75th Percentile - £650 £734
90th Percentile - £703 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £700
% change year-on-year +2.33% -23.21% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 30 0
Median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 -
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £46.18 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,975 35,624 61,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 88.74% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,463 24,518 43,144
10th Percentile £313 £313 £339
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 984 1,490 1,588
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.00 £19.06 £17.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Engineering in England

Digital Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Engineering in England.

Daily rate trend for Digital Engineering in England

Digital Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Digital Engineering in England.

Hourly rate trend for Digital Engineering in England

Digital Engineering
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +1 14 - - 5
North East 0 11 - - 2
North West +5 9 - - 3
London +42 2 £500 -25.93% 7
Digital Engineering
UK

Digital Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Git
2 5 (31.25%) Rational Rhapsody
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
4 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (18.75%) Retail
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Scrum Master
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Digital Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Product Owner
3 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) PyTorch
1 6 (37.50%) TensorFlow
2 1 (6.25%) ADO
2 1 (6.25%) CSS
2 1 (6.25%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) Visualisation
3 6 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (37.50%) GitOps
3 6 (37.50%) Machine Learning
3 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 6 (37.50%) Systems Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (31.25%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Scrum
6 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (12.50%) Agile Project Management
7 2 (12.50%) Coaching
7 2 (12.50%) Conflict Resolution
7 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) Project Management
7 2 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) Groovy
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) Amplitude
3 1 (6.25%) OneTrust
3 1 (6.25%) Tealium