Digital Innovation Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Digital Innovation
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Digital Innovation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 73 91
Rank change year-on-year +7 +18 +35
Contract jobs citing Digital Innovation 2 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.32% 0.49% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.56% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -13.51%
Scotland median daily rate £450 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -13.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Digital Innovation 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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 599 708 956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.78% 85.92% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 371 603
10th Percentile £303 £213 £213
25th Percentile £413 £343 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -1.45%
75th Percentile £547 £536 £538
90th Percentile £600 £619 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 6
10th Percentile - £13.27 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -53.68% +152.32%
75th Percentile £45.80 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £63.50 £48.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £19.99 £19.59 £19.18
% change year-on-year +2.02% +2.14% -3.38%

Digital Innovation
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Digital Innovation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Innovation in Edinburgh

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Digital Innovation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Digital Innovation

Digital Innovation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Field Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Field Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) ATDD
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) SOA
1 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) V-Model
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VBA
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto