Digital Innovation Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Digital Innovation
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Digital Innovation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 49 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Innovation 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.78% 0.87% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.93% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £317 £306 -
25th Percentile £413 £307 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £318 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.73% - -
75th Percentile £475 £332 -
90th Percentile £490 £335 -
South East median daily rate £450 £713 -
% change year-on-year -36.84% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.15 -
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 -
% change year-on-year +9.34% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 549 322 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 85.25% 93.88% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 212 336
10th Percentile £204 £204 £203
25th Percentile £373 £250 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £484 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +4.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £556
90th Percentile £636 £600 £653
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 36 35
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.49 £12.33
25th Percentile £30.00 £25.15 £33.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +6.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £75.00
90th Percentile - - £76.86
South East median hourly rate £52.43 £20.58 £57.35
% change year-on-year +154.80% -64.12% +9.24%

Digital Innovation
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Digital Innovation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Digital Innovation job vacancy trend in Surrey

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Innovation in Surrey over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Innovation in Surrey

Digital Innovation
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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
Staines - 4 £450 -
Chertsey - 1 £272 -
Digital Innovation
South East

Digital Innovation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) ARM Templates
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) LLM
3 1 (20.00%) Logistics
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Storytelling
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes