Digital Innovation Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Digital Innovation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 333 368 416
Rank change year-on-year +35 +48 +83
Contract jobs citing Digital Innovation 44 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.068% 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.081% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 7
10th Percentile £185 £369 £321
25th Percentile £227 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £524
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -14.04% +4.70%
75th Percentile £706 £538 £625
90th Percentile £950 £590 £725
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -14.29% -16.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.15 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,918 14,783 18,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.22% 83.32% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,384 8,386 12,507
10th Percentile £230 £239 £260
25th Percentile £363 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £664 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,489 1,143 1,263
10th Percentile £14.19 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.50 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.67% +1.18% +81.28%
75th Percentile £42.16 £65.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +47.06%

Digital Innovation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Digital Innovation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Innovation in the UK excluding London

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Digital Innovation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Digital Innovation

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Innovation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Innovation in the UK excluding London

Digital Innovation
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Digital Innovation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Digital Innovation

Digital Innovation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East - 14 £503 - 76
Midlands -3 11 £650 - 20
North West -4 9 £513 -22.64% 14
North of England -12 9 £513 -2.38% 21
East Midlands - 6 - - 5
West Midlands -10 5 £650 - 15
South West +30 4 £275 -38.89% 10
East of England - 4 £219 - 19
Scotland -4 2 £450 +12.50% 7
Digital Innovation
UK

Digital Innovation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.55%) PowerFactory
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) Azure
2 5 (11.36%) AWS
3 3 (6.82%) GCP
3 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.82%) SaaS
4 2 (4.55%) Contentstack
5 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.27%) ChatGPT
5 1 (2.27%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.27%) IaaS
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.27%) PaaS
5 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) LAN
1 3 (6.82%) Network Security
2 2 (4.55%) SAN
2 2 (4.55%) WLAN
3 1 (2.27%) 5G
3 1 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.27%) Firewall
3 1 (2.27%) Internet
3 1 (2.27%) IPsec
3 1 (2.27%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (2.27%) Modbus
3 1 (2.27%) MQTT
3 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.27%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.27%) VPN
3 1 (2.27%) WAN
3 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) BigQuery
2 2 (4.55%) Power BI
3 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.27%) Postman
3 1 (2.27%) Selenium
3 1 (2.27%) Subversion
3 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.27%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Finance
3 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.82%) Automotive
5 3 (6.82%) Marketing
6 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.55%) Retail
7 1 (2.27%) Electronics
7 1 (2.27%) Games
7 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (13.64%) Architect
1 6 (13.64%) Developer
2 4 (9.09%) Product Manager
3 3 (6.82%) BigQuery Architect
3 3 (6.82%) Data Architect
3 3 (6.82%) ETL Architect
3 3 (6.82%) GCP Architect
3 3 (6.82%) GCP Data Architect
3 3 (6.82%) Project Manager
4 2 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Coordinator
4 2 (4.55%) Industrial Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Innovation Manager
4 2 (4.55%) SAP Test Coordinator
4 2 (4.55%) Senior
4 2 (4.55%) Test Coordinator
5 1 (2.27%) Change Manager
5 1 (2.27%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) React
2 2 (4.55%) CSS
2 2 (4.55%) HTML
2 2 (4.55%) Node.js
2 2 (4.55%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (2.27%) .NET
3 1 (2.27%) Kafka
3 1 (2.27%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.27%) Material-UI
3 1 (2.27%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.36%) Algorithms
3 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.55%) PMI
6 1 (2.27%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.27%) Hackathon
6 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (2.27%) IoT
6 1 (2.27%) Legacy Code
6 1 (2.27%) Midjourney
6 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.27%) NB-IoT
6 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.27%) Robotics
6 1 (2.27%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
1 3 (6.82%) Windows
2 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) Agile
2 12 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 10 (22.73%) Computer Science
4 9 (20.45%) Roadmaps
5 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
5 7 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (13.64%) Machine Learning
7 5 (11.36%) Analytics
7 5 (11.36%) DevOps
7 5 (11.36%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 5 (11.36%) Predictive Analytics
7 5 (11.36%) Scrum
7 5 (11.36%) Visualisation
8 4 (9.09%) Computer Vision
8 4 (9.09%) Data Science
8 4 (9.09%) Decision-Making
8 4 (9.09%) Migration
8 4 (9.09%) Product Management
8 4 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.55%) Java
1 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.27%) Apex Code
2 1 (2.27%) C#
2 1 (2.27%) C++
2 1 (2.27%) MATLAB
2 1 (2.27%) Python
2 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.27%) SQL
2 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
2 1 (2.27%) VBA
2 1 (2.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) Degree
2 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.55%) DBS Check
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.55%) PMI Certification
2 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) CCNA
3 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) ISEB
3 1 (2.27%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.55%) PMO
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.27%) NCSC
2 1 (2.27%) NIST
2 1 (2.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Backup Exec
1 2 (4.55%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) SAP
2 4 (9.09%) Google
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.82%) Cisco
3 3 (6.82%) Hitachi
4 2 (4.55%) DIgSILENT
4 2 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.55%) Symantec
4 2 (4.55%) Veeam
4 2 (4.55%) VMware
5 1 (2.27%) F5
5 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto