Digital Innovation Contract Job Trends in the North West

Digital Innovation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 119 118 141
Rank change year-on-year -1 +23 +44
Contract jobs citing Digital Innovation 9 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 0.083% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.100% 0.12%
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
England median daily rate £478 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -10.12% -3.41% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,919 2,008 2,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.43% 83.42% 87.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,275 1,125 1,683
10th Percentile £283 £294 £274
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -2.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £577 £595
90th Percentile £680 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 108 163
10th Percentile £13.54 £16.43 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.30 £29.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% +28.79% +50.00%
75th Percentile £47.12 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.25 £72.40 £65.00
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Innovation in the North West

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Digital Innovation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Manchester 0 6 £513 -22.64% 7
Lancashire - 2 - - 3
Cheshire - 1 - - 1
Digital Innovation
England

Digital Innovation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) LAN
1 2 (22.22%) Network Security
1 2 (22.22%) SAN
1 2 (22.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) BigQuery
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Automotive
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) BigQuery Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 3 (33.33%) ETL Architect
1 3 (33.33%) GCP Architect
1 3 (33.33%) GCP Data Architect
2 2 (22.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Industrial Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Product Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Change Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Roadmaps
2 4 (44.44%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) ETL
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
4 2 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (22.22%) Data Management
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Product Management
4 2 (22.22%) Service Design
4 2 (22.22%) Storage Management
4 2 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Backup Exec
1 2 (22.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
1 3 (33.33%) Hitachi
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Symantec
2 2 (22.22%) Veeam
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) SAP