Hybrid/Remote Digital Innovation Contract Job Trends

Digital Innovation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work 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 291 331 407
Rank change year-on-year +40 +76 +177
Contract jobs citing Digital Innovation 21 6 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.048% 0.045%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.054% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 7
10th Percentile £324 £433 £475
25th Percentile £425 £463 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.48% -25.00% +21.74%
75th Percentile £542 £538 -
90th Percentile £663 - -
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -14.29% -16.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,022 11,103 17,907
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 92.21% 88.01% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,003 7,038 12,625
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 279 424
10th Percentile £12.77 £19.53 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £30.63 £25.99
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -18.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +47.06%

Digital Innovation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Digital Innovation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Digital Innovation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Digital Innovation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Digital Innovation

Digital Innovation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Digital Innovation over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Digital Innovation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Digital Innovation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (4.76%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.76%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) GCP
2 2 (9.52%) Contentstack
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.52%) Power Automate
2 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
2 2 (9.52%) PowerApps
2 2 (9.52%) SaaS
3 1 (4.76%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Figma
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) CircleCI
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Automotive
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) Local Government
5 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Architect
2 3 (14.29%) BigQuery Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) ETL Architect
2 3 (14.29%) GCP Architect
2 3 (14.29%) GCP Data Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Product Manager
2 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Coordinator
3 2 (9.52%) Designer
3 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
3 2 (9.52%) SAP Test Coordinator
3 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Service Designer
3 2 (9.52%) Test Coordinator
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Integration Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) React
2 2 (9.52%) CSS
2 2 (9.52%) CSS3
2 2 (9.52%) HTML
2 2 (9.52%) HTML5
2 2 (9.52%) REST
2 2 (9.52%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.76%) Kafka
3 1 (4.76%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (4.76%) Node.js
3 1 (4.76%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Product Ownership
2 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 4 (19.05%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (9.52%) PMI
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Code
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Agile
1 8 (38.10%) User Experience
2 5 (23.81%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (19.05%) Digital Engineering
3 4 (19.05%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 4 (19.05%) Service Design
3 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (14.29%) Data Architecture
4 3 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 3 (14.29%) Data Integration
4 3 (14.29%) Digital Strategy
4 3 (14.29%) ETL
4 3 (14.29%) Front End Development
4 3 (14.29%) Product Management
4 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 3 (14.29%) Scrum
4 3 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.76%) Apex Code
2 1 (4.76%) MATLAB
2 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) PMI Certification
2 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.52%) PMO
3 1 (4.76%) NIST
3 1 (4.76%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Hitachi
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Google
2 3 (14.29%) SAP
3 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) DIgSILENT