Digital Innovation Contract Job Trends in the South East

Digital Innovation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East 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 150 - 212
Rank change year-on-year - - +56
Contract jobs citing Digital Innovation 12 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.34% - 0.090%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £312 - -
25th Percentile £458 - £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 - £524
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.75%
75th Percentile £950 - £535
90th Percentile £963 - -
England median daily rate £478 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -10.12% -3.41% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,125 3,761 4,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.03% 82.66% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,952 2,244 3,305
10th Percentile £220 £257 £250
25th Percentile £375 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% -1.81% +1.46%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 230 255
10th Percentile £13.38 £16.23 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.91 £30.62 £23.79
Median hourly rate £22.13 £57.43 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.46% +7.34% +69.68%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.43 £66.13
90th Percentile £69.20 £77.17 £75.67
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Innovation in the South East

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Digital Innovation in the South East

Digital Innovation
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Digital Innovation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Digital Innovation

Digital Innovation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley - 8 £900 - 16
Berkshire - 7 £900 - 16
Surrey - 3 £318 - 9
Oxfordshire - 1 £525 -
Digital Innovation
England

Digital Innovation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Contentstack
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Local Government
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Coordinator
3 2 (16.67%) SAP Test Coordinator
3 2 (16.67%) Test Coordinator
4 1 (8.33%) Agile Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Agile Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) CDIO
4 1 (8.33%) CIO
4 1 (8.33%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) React Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Web Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Web Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) React
2 2 (16.67%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) Material-UI
3 1 (8.33%) Next.js
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (16.67%) PMI
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (33.33%) Analytics
3 4 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 4 (33.33%) Computer Vision
3 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 4 (33.33%) Data Science
3 4 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (33.33%) LLM
3 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 4 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
3 4 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 4 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 3 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (16.67%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (16.67%) SAP