Digital Innovation Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Digital Innovation
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands 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 123 110 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Digital Innovation 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.052% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.064% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £263 - -
25th Percentile £380 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £713 - -
90th Percentile £720 - -
England median daily rate £478 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -10.12% -3.41% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,623 1,570 1,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.98% 82.37% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 991 1,176
10th Percentile £250 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 40 51
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £14.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.44 £20.43
Median hourly rate £23.70 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% -8.54% +56.16%
75th Percentile £34.16 £37.63 £43.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.45 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Digital Innovation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Digital Innovation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Innovation in the West Midlands

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Digital Innovation in the West Midlands

Digital Innovation
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region 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
Warwickshire +1 3 £700 - 3
Coventry - 1 £650 - 2
Walsall - 1 £201 - 2
Digital Innovation
England

Digital Innovation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (40.00%) PowerFactory
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) 5G
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
1 1 (20.00%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (20.00%) Modbus
1 1 (20.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Innovation Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Portfolio Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) NB-IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Model Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Product Management
2 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Acquisition
3 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Network Management
3 1 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) MATLAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) DIgSILENT