Digital Innovation Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Digital Innovation
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Digital Innovation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Innovation 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 2.70% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £171 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £199 - -
75th Percentile £227 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £230 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 150 99 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 81.08% 75.57% 81.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 62 68
10th Percentile £218 £132 £185
25th Percentile £322 £250 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £368 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -13.53% -
75th Percentile £575 £475 £500
90th Percentile £638 £536 £625
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £410 £453
% change year-on-year +15.85% -9.39% -8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 2
10th Percentile £13.14 £19.03 £21.03
25th Percentile £13.20 £19.81 £21.44
Median hourly rate £16.46 £20.90 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.24% -8.13% +8.33%
75th Percentile £26.70 £22.60 £23.94
90th Percentile £30.75 £24.94 £24.28
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £17.66
% change year-on-year -5.30% +6.85% -35.78%

Digital Innovation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Digital Innovation job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

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

Digital Innovation
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Leicester - 5 £199 - 3
Digital Innovation
East Midlands

Digital Innovation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 4 (80.00%) Power Automate
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Organisational Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (80.00%) AI
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (80.00%) Dashboard Development
1 4 (80.00%) Data Analysis
1 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Management
1 4 (80.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (80.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 4 (80.00%) ERP
1 4 (80.00%) Inventory Management
1 4 (80.00%) Master Data Management
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Process Improvement
1 4 (80.00%) Task Automation
1 4 (80.00%) Trend Analysis
1 4 (80.00%) User Experience
1 4 (80.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle