Disruptive Innovation Contracts

Disruptive Innovation\Technology
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Disruptive Innovation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Disruptive Innovation over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 682 807
Rank change year-on-year +102 +125 -133
Contract jobs citing Disruptive Innovation 5 11 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.019% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.021% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 16
10th Percentile £640 £481 £463
25th Percentile £700 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £900 - £600
90th Percentile £960 £756 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £375 £700
% change year-on-year - -46.43% +47.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Disruptive Innovation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Disruptive Innovation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Disruptive Innovation in the UK

Disruptive Innovation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Disruptive Innovation.

Daily rate trend for Disruptive Innovation in the UK

Disruptive Innovation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disruptive Innovation over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Disruptive Innovation in the UK

Disruptive Innovation
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Disruptive Innovation within the UK over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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 +98 4 £800 +33.33% 41
London +84 3 £800 +33.33% 20
Work from Home +121 1 - - 16
UK excluding London +69 1 - - 16
Midlands - 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 1

Disruptive 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Matillion
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Appium
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) Postman
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
1 3 (60.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Retail Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Android Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Node.js
1 3 (60.00%) React Native
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Fintech
2 3 (60.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 3 (60.00%) MVVM
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Coaching
4 1 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Budgeting
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Due Diligence
4 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Checkmarx