Digital Innovation Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Digital Innovation
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester 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 85 83 105
Rank change year-on-year -2 +22 +39
Contract jobs citing Digital Innovation 6 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.60% 0.17% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.20% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £541 £235
25th Percentile £506 £584 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £663 £378
Median % change year-on-year -22.64% +75.50% -
75th Percentile £519 £734 £483
90th Percentile - £774 £538
North West median daily rate £513 £663 £378
% change year-on-year -22.64% +75.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 904 1,023 1,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.77% 87.06% 87.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 601 1,060
10th Percentile £308 £313 £273
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £596
90th Percentile £676 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £455 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -6.77% -2.50% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 34 60
10th Percentile £15.49 £15.94 £15.55
25th Percentile £19.07 £22.38 £16.28
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +106.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £35.50 £64.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £87.45 £70.00
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Innovation in Manchester

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Digital Innovation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) BigQuery
General
1 3 (50.00%) Automotive
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) BigQuery Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 3 (50.00%) ETL Architect
1 3 (50.00%) GCP Architect
1 3 (50.00%) GCP Data Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Product Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 3 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) B2B
2 2 (33.33%) B2C
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Journey Map
2 2 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Journey Map
2 2 (33.33%) Product Discovery
2 2 (33.33%) Product Management
2 2 (33.33%) Product Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
1 3 (50.00%) Hitachi