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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Innovation 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.36% 2.31% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 2.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £350 £675 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% - -
75th Percentile £450 £725 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £400 £606 £725
% change year-on-year -34.02% -16.38% +253.66%

All Process & 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 219 157 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 77.94% 90.75% 76.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 84 73
10th Percentile £225 £393 £239
25th Percentile £350 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.88% +7.60% +1.01%
75th Percentile £688 £615 £600
90th Percentile £813 £671 £656
North West median daily rate £475 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +2.15% -7.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 20 61
10th Percentile £24.37 £14.76 -
25th Percentile £37.25 £25.90 £16.06
Median hourly rate £56.44 £29.58 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +90.84% -16.36% -16.80%
75th Percentile £71.91 £63.10 £45.88
90th Percentile £72.38 £64.08 £48.00
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £32.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year +71.88% +17.43% -17.12%

Digital Innovation
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Digital Innovation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Digital Innovation job vacancy trend 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 6 June 2026. 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 -3 1 £400 -
Digital Innovation
North West

Digital Innovation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

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