Digital Economy Job Trends in the East of England

Digital Economy (Web Economy, New Economy)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Economy in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Digital Economy over the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Digital Economy 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.015% - -
As % of the General category 0.034% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% +44.74% -25.49%

All General Skills
East of England

Digital Economy falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 2,970 2,258 3,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 45.35% 66.45% 52.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,820 1,053 2,453
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £25,809
25th Percentile £32,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,050 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +3.26% -10.24%
75th Percentile £64,750 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Digital Economy
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Digital Economy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Digital Economy job vacancy trend in the East of England

Digital Economy
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Digital Economy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Digital Economy

Digital Economy
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Economy within the East of England region over the 6 months to 8 July 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bedfordshire - 1 - -
Digital Economy
England

Digital Economy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA