Digital Engineering Contracts

Digital Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 578 765
Rank change year-on-year +42 +187 -104
Contract jobs citing Digital Engineering 40 106 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.19% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.21% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 30 42
10th Percentile - £346 £383
25th Percentile £525 £350 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £556 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -14.42% +44.44%
75th Percentile £731 £649 £716
90th Percentile £1,098 £675 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £775 £350 £640
% change year-on-year +121.43% -45.31% +38.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile - £37.76 -
25th Percentile - £37.78 -
Median hourly rate £46.18 £40.55 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.90% - -
75th Percentile £48.09 £46.29 -
90th Percentile £49.24 £51.52 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £40.55 -
% change year-on-year +13.90% - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Digital Engineering in the UK

Digital Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Engineering over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Engineering in the UK

Digital Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Digital Engineering in the UK

Digital Engineering
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +91 28 £588 -2.08% 70
London +99 19 £588 -6.00% 22
UK excluding London +39 12 £775 +121.43% 45
Work from Home +87 9 £1,125 +119.51% 19
North of England +29 8 - - 13
North East - 7 - - 1
Scotland +37 3 £775 +55.00% 2
North West +19 3 - - 10
South West +1 1 - - 9

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 3 (7.50%) ArcGIS
1 3 (7.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) JBoss
2 1 (2.50%) nginx
2 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 17 (42.50%) Azure
2 14 (35.00%) AWS
3 4 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (5.00%) GitHub
4 2 (5.00%) Serverless
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (5.00%) Network Security
2 2 (5.00%) ZigBee
3 1 (2.50%) DNS
3 1 (2.50%) Internet
3 1 (2.50%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) GIS
1 3 (7.50%) Spatial Data
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Git
2 3 (7.50%) JIRA
General
1 7 (17.50%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Automotive
3 2 (5.00%) Banking
3 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.50%) Marketing
4 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Architect
2 9 (22.50%) Lead
3 7 (17.50%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (7.50%) GIS Architect
5 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.00%) C++ Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Head of Engineering
6 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Lead Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Specialist
6 2 (5.00%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Senior C++ Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Technical Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) PyTorch
1 7 (17.50%) TensorFlow
2 2 (5.00%) Middleware
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (2.50%) JSON
3 1 (2.50%) JWT
3 1 (2.50%) Kafka
3 1 (2.50%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (2.50%) OAuth
3 1 (2.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.00%) IoT
2 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.00%) Robotics
3 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.50%) MPEG
3 1 (2.50%) Online Banking
3 1 (2.50%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.50%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Unix
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
1 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 14 (35.00%) DevOps
3 12 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 10 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 9 (22.50%) Agile
5 9 (22.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 8 (20.00%) Visualisation
7 7 (17.50%) GitOps
7 7 (17.50%) Machine Learning
7 7 (17.50%) Systems Engineering
8 6 (15.00%) ITSM
8 6 (15.00%) Migration
9 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
9 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (10.00%) Change Management
11 3 (7.50%) Asset Management
11 3 (7.50%) Business Development
11 3 (7.50%) Data Management
11 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Architecture
11 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) Python
2 2 (5.00%) C++
2 2 (5.00%) SQL
3 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
1 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) CISSP
4 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.50%) Grafana
3 1 (2.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (7.50%) ESRI
4 2 (5.00%) Google
4 2 (5.00%) QNX
4 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.50%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.50%) Hitachi
5 1 (2.50%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle
5 1 (2.50%) Temenos