Digital Innovation Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Digital Innovation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Digital Innovation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 132 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Innovation 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.34% 0.037% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.044% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £263 - -
25th Percentile £380 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £713 - -
90th Percentile £720 - -
England median daily rate £478 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -10.12% -3.41% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,345 2,262 2,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.06% 82.95% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,520 1,426 1,714
10th Percentile £250 £259 £250
25th Percentile £363 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £658 £699 £704
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 72 100
10th Percentile £13.73 £13.59 £13.14
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.22 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.39 £22.05 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% -19.84% +55.19%
75th Percentile £26.51 £43.06 £51.50
90th Percentile £42.13 £55.00 £67.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Digital Innovation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Innovation in the Midlands

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Digital Innovation

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Innovation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Innovation in the Midlands

Digital Innovation
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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
West Midlands -13 5 £650 - 15
East Midlands - 4 - - 5
Digital Innovation
England

Digital Innovation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (22.22%) PowerFactory
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) 5G
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
1 1 (11.11%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (11.11%) Modbus
1 1 (11.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Product Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Innovation Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Portfolio Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Salesforce Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (11.11%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) NB-IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 1 (11.11%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Model Validation
3 2 (22.22%) Product Management
3 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Network Management
4 1 (11.11%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (11.11%) Sprint Retrospective
4 1 (11.11%) User Stories
4 1 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Apex Code
1 1 (11.11%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) DIgSILENT
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce