Digital Innovation Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Digital Innovation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 114 110 144
Rank change year-on-year -4 +34 +29
Contract jobs citing Digital Innovation 2 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% 0.27% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.31% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -13.51%
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -14.29% -16.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,472 1,623 2,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.32% 86.42% 92.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 975 1,437
10th Percentile £256 £205 £250
25th Percentile £386 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 47 57
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.07 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.99 £19.59 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% +2.14% -3.38%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £59.03
90th Percentile £45.22 £43.12 £75.45
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +47.06%

Digital Innovation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Innovation in Scotland

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Digital Innovation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 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
Edinburgh +7 2 £450 +12.50% 2
Digital Innovation
UK

Digital Innovation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Field Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Field Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) ATDD
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) SOA
1 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) V-Model
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VBA
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto