Digital Innovation Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Digital Innovation
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire 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 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Innovation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.23% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate £513 £663 £378
% change year-on-year -22.64% +75.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 140 147 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 85.89% 70.67% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 59 137
10th Percentile £334 £259 £359
25th Percentile £425 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -10.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £645
90th Percentile £678 £646 £720
North West median daily rate £455 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -6.77% -2.50% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 27 53
10th Percentile £18.87 £25.87 £20.58
25th Percentile £23.32 £35.36 £37.75
Median hourly rate £47.12 £40.33 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.85% -12.68% +22.18%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.36 £51.35 £71.80
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% +28.79% +46.67%

Digital Innovation
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Innovation in Lancashire

Digital Innovation
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire 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
Burnley - 2 - -
Digital Innovation
North West

Digital Innovation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Industrial Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec
1 2 (100.00%) Veeam
1 2 (100.00%) VMware