Digital Engineering Contracts in London

Digital Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Digital Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Engineering over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 459 535
Rank change year-on-year +85 +76 -58
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 16 18 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.092% 0.071% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.078% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 23
10th Percentile - £460 £383
25th Percentile £525 £588 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £613 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% -5.77% +44.44%
75th Percentile £666 £675 £725
90th Percentile £1,119 - £855
England median daily rate £588 £513 £650
% change year-on-year +14.63% -21.15% +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,450 23,106 35,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 90.87% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,083 16,714 26,163
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 262 405
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.08
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +11.79% +7.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

Digital Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Engineering in London

Digital Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Engineering in London

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Engineering in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Engineering in London

Digital Engineering
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +37 2 £1,050 +133.33%
West London - 1 - -
Digital Engineering
England

Digital Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (18.75%) ArcGIS
2 2 (12.50%) Confluence
3 1 (6.25%) Apache
3 1 (6.25%) JBoss
3 1 (6.25%) nginx
3 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) LoRaWAN
1 2 (12.50%) ZigBee
2 1 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) GIS
1 3 (18.75%) Spatial Data
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (18.75%) GIS Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Head of Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Support
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) E-Commerce Manager
5 1 (6.25%) E-Commerce Product Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Head of IT
5 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Operations Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Product Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) HTML
2 1 (6.25%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (6.25%) JSON
2 1 (6.25%) JWT
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Mobile App
2 2 (12.50%) IoT
2 2 (12.50%) Robotics
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Roadmaps
3 3 (18.75%) Asset Management
3 3 (18.75%) Business Case
3 3 (18.75%) Business Development
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Data Architecture
3 3 (18.75%) Data Management
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Digital Strategy
3 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (18.75%) ITSM
3 3 (18.75%) Migration
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Product Roadmap
3 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
3 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (12.50%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Kibana
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) ESRI
1 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) Hitachi
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.25%) Temenos