Digital Innovation Contract Job Trends in England

Digital Innovation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England 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 430 508 584
Rank change year-on-year +78 +76 +154
Contract jobs citing Digital Innovation 84 19 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.058% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.067% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 12 7
10th Percentile £192 £351 £366
25th Percentile £425 £497 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% -3.41% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £560 £638
90th Percentile £889 £631 £725
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -14.29% -16.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.15 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,388 28,245 37,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.87% 86.25% 89.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,124 17,350 25,875
10th Percentile £300 £313 £315
25th Percentile £405 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,543 1,244 1,444
10th Percentile £14.41 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.94% +51.21%
75th Percentile £47.50 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +47.06%

Digital Innovation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Innovation in England

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Innovation in England over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Innovation in England

Digital Innovation
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Digital Innovation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Digital Innovation

Digital Innovation
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 Innovation within the England region over the 6 months to 26 September 2025. 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
London +60 42 £450 -16.28% 95
South East - 14 £503 - 76
Midlands -3 11 £650 - 20
North West -4 9 £513 -22.64% 14
North of England -12 9 £513 -2.38% 21
East Midlands - 6 - - 5
West Midlands -10 5 £650 - 15
South West +30 4 £275 -38.89% 10
East of England - 4 £219 - 19
Digital Innovation
UK

Digital Innovation
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 2 (2.38%) CMS
1 2 (2.38%) PowerFactory
2 1 (1.19%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) HCL Notes
2 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.19%) Navisworks
2 1 (1.19%) ProjectWise
2 1 (1.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Endur
2 3 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.29%) Azure
2 9 (10.71%) AWS
3 7 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.76%) GCP
4 4 (4.76%) Power Automate
4 4 (4.76%) PowerApps
5 3 (3.57%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.57%) SaaS
6 2 (2.38%) Azure API Management
6 2 (2.38%) Contentstack
6 2 (2.38%) Figma
6 2 (2.38%) Kong
6 2 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.19%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.19%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.19%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) LAN
2 2 (2.38%) Network Security
2 2 (2.38%) SAN
2 2 (2.38%) WLAN
3 1 (1.19%) 5G
3 1 (1.19%) DHCP
3 1 (1.19%) DNS
3 1 (1.19%) Internet
3 1 (1.19%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (1.19%) Modbus
3 1 (1.19%) MQTT
3 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.19%) VPN
3 1 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.57%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.38%) Power BI
3 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.19%) Big Data
4 1 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Git
1 3 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (1.19%) CircleCI
General
1 32 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 26 (30.95%) Finance
3 10 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Telecoms
4 9 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.52%) Automotive
6 6 (7.14%) Legal
6 6 (7.14%) Marketing
7 5 (5.95%) Back Office
8 4 (4.76%) Retail
9 3 (3.57%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.38%) Electronics
10 2 (2.38%) Health Technology
10 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.19%) Advertising
11 1 (1.19%) Digital Health
11 1 (1.19%) Games
11 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (13.10%) Architect
2 10 (11.90%) Report Manager
3 9 (10.71%) Developer
4 4 (4.76%) Analyst
4 4 (4.76%) Business Analyst
4 4 (4.76%) Product Manager
4 4 (4.76%) Project Manager
5 3 (3.57%) BigQuery Architect
5 3 (3.57%) Data Architect
5 3 (3.57%) Designer
5 3 (3.57%) Endur Architect
5 3 (3.57%) ETL Architect
5 3 (3.57%) GCP Architect
5 3 (3.57%) GCP Data Architect
5 3 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (3.57%) OpenLink Architect
5 3 (3.57%) Senior
5 3 (3.57%) Technical Architect
6 2 (2.38%) Industrial Engineer
6 2 (2.38%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.33%) React
2 4 (4.76%) CSS
2 4 (4.76%) HTML
3 3 (3.57%) JSON
3 3 (3.57%) Swagger
4 2 (2.38%) CSS3
4 2 (2.38%) EDI
4 2 (2.38%) HTML5
4 2 (2.38%) Middleware
4 2 (2.38%) Node.js
4 2 (2.38%) REST
4 2 (2.38%) RESTful
4 2 (2.38%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.19%) .NET
5 1 (1.19%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (1.19%) Kafka
5 1 (1.19%) LangChain
5 1 (1.19%) Material-UI
5 1 (1.19%) Next.js
5 1 (1.19%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.48%) Product Ownership
2 9 (10.71%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 6 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.57%) Digital Media
4 3 (3.57%) Grid Computing
5 2 (2.38%) Legacy Code
5 2 (2.38%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.38%) PMI
5 2 (2.38%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.38%) Social Media
6 1 (1.19%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.19%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.19%) Hackathon
6 1 (1.19%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.19%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.19%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.76%) Windows
1 4 (4.76%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.38%) Linux
2 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (38.10%) Agile
2 22 (26.19%) Artificial Intelligence
2 22 (26.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 20 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (15.48%) DevOps
5 12 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 11 (13.10%) Computer Science
6 11 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (13.10%) Roadmaps
6 11 (13.10%) User Experience
7 9 (10.71%) Analytics
8 8 (9.52%) Containerisation
8 8 (9.52%) Digital Engineering
9 7 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 7 (8.33%) Project Management
10 6 (7.14%) Data Architecture
10 6 (7.14%) Microservices
10 6 (7.14%) Migration
10 6 (7.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.95%) C#
1 5 (5.95%) JavaScript
2 4 (4.76%) Java
3 3 (3.57%) Python
3 3 (3.57%) SQL
4 2 (2.38%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.19%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.19%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.19%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (9.52%) Degree
2 5 (5.95%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.57%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.57%) PMI Certification
3 3 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.38%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.38%) MBA
4 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.19%) IIBA
5 1 (1.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.90%) IFRS
2 4 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.76%) GDPR
3 3 (3.57%) QA
4 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.38%) NCSC
4 2 (2.38%) PMO
5 1 (1.19%) ISO 19650
5 1 (1.19%) NIST
5 1 (1.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (5.95%) Docker
2 4 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.33%) Terraform
3 3 (3.57%) Ansible
4 2 (2.38%) Backup Exec
4 2 (2.38%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.52%) Hitachi
2 8 (9.52%) SAP
3 5 (5.95%) Google
4 4 (4.76%) Workday
5 3 (3.57%) VMware
6 2 (2.38%) Cisco
6 2 (2.38%) DIgSILENT
6 2 (2.38%) ION Trading
6 2 (2.38%) OpenLink
6 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.38%) Symantec
6 2 (2.38%) Veeam
7 1 (1.19%) Adobe
7 1 (1.19%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.19%) Lotus
7 1 (1.19%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.19%) Oracle
7 1 (1.19%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.19%) UiPath