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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 782 233 723
Rank change year-on-year -549 +490 +37
Permanent jobs citing Digital Engineering 108 1,584 591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 1.60% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 1.67% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 29 66 160
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,000 £49,750
25th Percentile £45,848 £67,500 £64,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.11% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £117,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £44,345 £60,000
% change year-on-year +26.85% -26.09% +20.00%

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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +9.38%

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 18 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 18 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 -516 102 £57,500 -28.13% 73
UK excluding London -275 48 £56,250 +26.85% 48
Work from Home -256 45 £65,000 -27.78% 20
London -229 35 £60,000 -36.17% 25
South West -23 18 £91,500 +14.38% 9
North of England -138 15 £40,000 -32.97% 13
North West -162 9 £40,000 -57.89% 9
East of England +7 6 £60,000 +118.18% 2
Yorkshire +74 5 - - 2
Scotland -91 5 - - 1
West Midlands -15 3 £50,945 +52.07% 5
Midlands -43 3 £50,945 +52.07% 9
South East +3 1 - - 12
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 33 (30.56%) Azure
2 28 (25.93%) AWS
3 18 (16.67%) GCP
4 11 (10.19%) Serverless
5 10 (9.26%) IaaS
5 10 (9.26%) PaaS
6 9 (8.33%) GitHub
7 8 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (6.48%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
9 6 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.63%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (4.63%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.70%) SaaS
12 2 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Purview
13 1 (0.93%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.19%) Network Security
2 4 (3.70%) Wireless
3 3 (2.78%) Firewall
4 2 (1.85%) Broadband
4 2 (1.85%) Converged Networks
4 2 (1.85%) DNS
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 11 (10.19%) 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 2 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.85%) QGIS
5 2 (1.85%) SQL Server
6 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 2 (1.85%) Grunt
5 2 (1.85%) Jasmine
5 2 (1.85%) Mocha
5 2 (1.85%) webpack
6 1 (0.93%) Spinnaker
General
1 43 (39.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 23 (21.30%) Aerospace
3 21 (19.44%) Social Skills
4 16 (14.81%) Finance
5 15 (13.89%) Manufacturing
6 14 (12.96%) Public Sector
7 12 (11.11%) Banking
8 10 (9.26%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (9.26%) Retail Banking
9 9 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (8.33%) Marketing
9 9 (8.33%) Retail
10 8 (7.41%) Aviation
11 7 (6.48%) Military
12 6 (5.56%) Law
13 4 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (2.78%) Legal
15 2 (1.85%) Automotive
15 2 (1.85%) Brand Awareness
15 2 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (20.37%) Consultant
2 20 (18.52%) Senior
3 19 (17.59%) Architect
4 14 (12.96%) Data Engineer
5 13 (12.04%) Lead
6 8 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
6 8 (7.41%) Technical Architect
7 7 (6.48%) SAP Consultant
8 6 (5.56%) Azure Architect
9 5 (4.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Azure Consultant
9 5 (4.63%) Data Scientist
9 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Consultant
9 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Presales Consultant
9 5 (4.63%) Presales Consultant
9 5 (4.63%) Principal Data Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Principal Data Scientist
9 5 (4.63%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Technical Consultant
10 4 (3.70%) Senior Consultant
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
6 4 (3.70%) React
7 3 (2.78%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.78%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.85%) Chai
8 2 (1.85%) LESS
8 2 (1.85%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.85%) Sass
8 2 (1.85%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.04%) IoT
2 10 (9.26%) Distributed Applications
2 10 (9.26%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.48%) Cloud Native
4 7 (6.48%) Virtual Team
5 6 (5.56%) Mobile App
5 6 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.70%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.70%) Animation
6 4 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.78%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.78%) iPhone
7 3 (2.78%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.85%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.85%) Social Media
9 1 (0.93%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.93%) STB
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.41%) Windows
2 6 (5.56%) Apple iOS
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 46 (42.59%) Agile
2 28 (25.93%) Analytics
3 26 (24.07%) Artificial Intelligence
4 25 (23.15%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (21.30%) DevOps
5 23 (21.30%) Project Management
5 23 (21.30%) Software Engineering
6 21 (19.44%) CI/CD
7 19 (17.59%) People Management
8 17 (15.74%) Computer Science
8 17 (15.74%) Data Analytics
8 17 (15.74%) Machine Learning
8 17 (15.74%) PLM
9 15 (13.89%) Thought Leadership
10 14 (12.96%) Coaching
10 14 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (12.04%) Data Transformation
11 13 (12.04%) Mentoring
11 13 (12.04%) Roadmaps
12 12 (11.11%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.11%) 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 40 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 24 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 20 (18.52%) Degree
4 8 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (7.41%) PhD
5 7 (6.48%) CISSP
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%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
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 9 (8.33%) 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 12 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 12 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (1.85%) SCCM
3 1 (0.93%) Ansible
3 1 (0.93%) MOM
3 1 (0.93%) WMI
Vendors
1 15 (13.89%) Databricks
2 14 (12.96%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.33%) Cloudera
4 8 (7.41%) ANSYS
5 7 (6.48%) Google
5 7 (6.48%) SAP
6 6 (5.56%) IBM
7 5 (4.63%) Dataiku
8 4 (3.70%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.85%) Brocade
9 2 (1.85%) Cisco
9 2 (1.85%) EMC
9 2 (1.85%) Hitachi
10 1 (0.93%) Adobe
10 1 (0.93%) Hortonworks
10 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.93%) New Relic
10 1 (0.93%) Oracle
10 1 (0.93%) Remedy
10 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow