Digital Innovation Contract Job Trends

Digital Innovation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 483 537 617
Rank change year-on-year +54 +80 +166
Contract jobs citing Digital Innovation 84 25 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.065% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.076% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 16 12
10th Percentile £310 £291 £408
25th Percentile £425 £400 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -16.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £556 £700
90th Percentile £898 £604 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £450 £524
% change year-on-year +13.89% -14.04% +4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,868 32,934 43,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.51% 85.78% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,571 20,018 29,601
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,844 1,407 1,549
10th Percentile £14.33 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.00 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% - +47.06%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £74.60 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -47.67% +1.18% +78.80%

Digital Innovation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Innovation in the UK

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Digital Innovation in the UK

Digital Innovation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Digital Innovation
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England +86 80 £478 -10.12% 202
London +61 43 £450 -16.28% 95
UK excluding London +30 39 £513 +13.89% 154
Work from Home +33 21 £496 -5.48% 103
South East - 12 £713 - 75
North West -1 9 £513 -22.64% 14
Midlands -5 9 £650 - 20
North of England -23 9 £513 -2.38% 21
West Midlands -13 5 £650 - 15
South West +25 4 £275 -38.89% 10
East Midlands - 4 - - 5
East of England - 3 £330 - 19
Scotland -2 2 £450 +12.50% 7

Digital Innovation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.38%) CMS
1 2 (2.38%) PowerFactory
2 1 (1.19%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) HCL Notes
2 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.19%) Navisworks
2 1 (1.19%) ProjectWise
2 1 (1.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Endur
2 3 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.67%) Azure
2 10 (11.90%) AWS
3 8 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.95%) GCP
4 5 (5.95%) PowerApps
5 4 (4.76%) Power Automate
5 4 (4.76%) SaaS
6 3 (3.57%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.38%) Azure API Management
7 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.38%) Contentstack
7 2 (2.38%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.38%) Figma
7 2 (2.38%) IaaS
7 2 (2.38%) Kong
7 2 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.38%) PaaS
8 1 (1.19%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) LAN
2 3 (3.57%) Network Security
2 3 (3.57%) VPN
3 2 (2.38%) DHCP
3 2 (2.38%) DNS
3 2 (2.38%) SAN
3 2 (2.38%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.38%) WAN
3 2 (2.38%) WLAN
4 1 (1.19%) 5G
4 1 (1.19%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.19%) Firewall
4 1 (1.19%) Internet
4 1 (1.19%) IPsec
4 1 (1.19%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (1.19%) Modbus
4 1 (1.19%) MQTT
4 1 (1.19%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.19%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.57%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.38%) Power BI
3 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.19%) Big Data
4 1 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Git
1 4 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (1.19%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.19%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.19%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.19%) Postman
2 1 (1.19%) Selenium
2 1 (1.19%) Subversion
2 1 (1.19%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.19%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 27 (32.14%) Finance
3 12 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 11 (13.10%) Telecoms
5 10 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (10.71%) Automotive
7 6 (7.14%) Legal
7 6 (7.14%) Marketing
8 5 (5.95%) Back Office
9 4 (4.76%) Retail
10 3 (3.57%) Manufacturing
11 2 (2.38%) Electronics
11 2 (2.38%) Health Technology
11 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (1.19%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (1.19%) Digital Health
12 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.19%) Local Government
12 1 (1.19%) Police
12 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (14.29%) Architect
2 10 (11.90%) Report Manager
3 9 (10.71%) Developer
4 5 (5.95%) Senior
5 4 (4.76%) Analyst
5 4 (4.76%) Business Analyst
5 4 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (4.76%) Product Manager
5 4 (4.76%) Project Manager
6 3 (3.57%) BigQuery Architect
6 3 (3.57%) Data Architect
6 3 (3.57%) Designer
6 3 (3.57%) Endur Architect
6 3 (3.57%) ETL Architect
6 3 (3.57%) GCP Architect
6 3 (3.57%) GCP Data Architect
6 3 (3.57%) OpenLink Architect
6 3 (3.57%) Technical Architect
7 2 (2.38%) OpenLink Analyst
7 2 (2.38%) OpenLink Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.33%) React
2 4 (4.76%) CSS
2 4 (4.76%) HTML
3 3 (3.57%) JSON
3 3 (3.57%) Swagger
4 2 (2.38%) .NET
4 2 (2.38%) CSS3
4 2 (2.38%) EDI
4 2 (2.38%) HTML5
4 2 (2.38%) Middleware
4 2 (2.38%) Node.js
4 2 (2.38%) REST
4 2 (2.38%) RESTful
4 2 (2.38%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.19%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.19%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (1.19%) Kafka
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.19%) Next.js
5 1 (1.19%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.48%) Product Ownership
2 10 (11.90%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 6 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.57%) Digital Media
4 3 (3.57%) Grid Computing
5 2 (2.38%) Legacy Code
5 2 (2.38%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.38%) PKI
5 2 (2.38%) PMI
5 2 (2.38%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.38%) Social Media
6 1 (1.19%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.19%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.19%) Hackathon
6 1 (1.19%) Midjourney
6 1 (1.19%) NB-IoT
6 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.19%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.14%) Windows
2 5 (5.95%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.57%) Linux
4 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.29%) Agile
2 23 (27.38%) Artificial Intelligence
3 22 (26.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 21 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (16.67%) DevOps
6 13 (15.48%) CI/CD
7 12 (14.29%) Roadmaps
8 11 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (13.10%) User Experience
9 9 (10.71%) Analytics
9 9 (10.71%) Digital Engineering
10 8 (9.52%) Containerisation
10 8 (9.52%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 7 (8.33%) Machine Learning
11 7 (8.33%) Migration
11 7 (8.33%) Project Management
12 6 (7.14%) Microservices
12 6 (7.14%) Scrum
12 6 (7.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.14%) C#
1 6 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 5 (5.95%) Java
3 4 (4.76%) Python
3 4 (4.76%) SQL
4 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.38%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.19%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.19%) C++
5 1 (1.19%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.19%) VBA
5 1 (1.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (8.33%) Degree
2 6 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.57%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.57%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.38%) MBA
5 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.19%) CCNA
6 1 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.19%) IIBA
6 1 (1.19%) ISEB
6 1 (1.19%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.90%) IFRS
2 5 (5.95%) QA
3 4 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.76%) GDPR
4 3 (3.57%) NCSC
5 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.38%) PMO
6 1 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.19%) ISO 19650
6 1 (1.19%) NIST
6 1 (1.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (5.95%) Active Directory
1 5 (5.95%) Docker
2 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 8 (9.52%) Terraform
2 3 (3.57%) Ansible
3 2 (2.38%) Backup Exec
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.71%) Hitachi
3 8 (9.52%) SAP
4 6 (7.14%) Google
5 4 (4.76%) Workday
6 3 (3.57%) Cisco
6 3 (3.57%) VMware
7 2 (2.38%) DIgSILENT
7 2 (2.38%) ION Trading
7 2 (2.38%) OpenLink
7 2 (2.38%) QAD
7 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.38%) Symantec
7 2 (2.38%) Veeam
8 1 (1.19%) Blue Prism
8 1 (1.19%) F5
8 1 (1.19%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.19%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.19%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.19%) UiPath