Digital Innovation Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Digital Innovation
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 126 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Innovation 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.41% 0.047% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.054% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £496 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +157.14% - -
75th Percentile £950 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £503 £350 £325
% change year-on-year +43.57% +7.69% -45.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,731 1,857 2,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 88.95% 86.98% 91.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,101 1,080 1,521
10th Percentile £268 £300 £214
25th Percentile £404 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £619
90th Percentile £650 £686 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £520
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.96% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 60 104
10th Percentile £14.79 £19.37 £17.47
25th Percentile £17.35 £34.69 £24.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £52.72
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% +9.07% +151.05%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.41 £65.89
90th Percentile £88.71 £74.92 £75.54
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £57.38 £53.50
% change year-on-year -61.66% +7.24% +22.99%

Digital Innovation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Digital Innovation job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Innovation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Innovation in the Thames Valley

Digital Innovation
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 November 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
Berkshire +11 7 £900 +157.14% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £525 -
Digital Innovation
South East

Digital Innovation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Contentstack
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) React Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Web Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Web Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) Material-UI
2 1 (12.50%) Next.js
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (25.00%) PMI
2 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (12.50%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (50.00%) AI
3 4 (50.00%) Analytics
3 4 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 4 (50.00%) Computer Vision
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Data Science
3 4 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (50.00%) LLM
3 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
3 4 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 4 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 3 (37.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (25.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft