Creative Thinking Contracts in England

Creative Thinking
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Creative Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Creative Thinking over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 438 533
Rank change year-on-year +46 +95 -45
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 143 230 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.46% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.50% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 151 149
10th Percentile £311 £400 £260
25th Percentile £413 £461 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £595 £663 £638
90th Percentile £638 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 39
10th Percentile £15.28 £26.63 -
25th Percentile £18.25 £36.13 £15.90
Median hourly rate £19.50 £50.00 £16.93
Median % change year-on-year -61.00% +195.33% -23.05%
75th Percentile £54.76 £62.50 £17.97
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.00 £42.15
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £50.00 £16.93
% change year-on-year -61.00% +195.33% -23.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Creative Thinking 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in England

Creative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in England.

Daily rate trend for Creative Thinking in England

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Thinking in England

Creative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Creative Thinking in England

Creative Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Creative Thinking in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Creative Thinking in England

Creative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Thinking within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +70 72 £485 -11.82% 116
North of England +31 20 £575 +4.55% 40
South East -3 19 £519 -16.16% 40
South West +28 16 £600 +35.59% 25
North West +24 14 £613 +22.50% 22
Midlands +5 10 £488 -2.50% 16
East Midlands +20 6 £513 +13.89% 9
Yorkshire +10 5 £388 -29.55% 15
West Midlands +10 4 £375 -28.57% 7
East of England +9 4 £488 +5.98% 18
Creative Thinking
UK

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (6.99%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.50%) Confluence
3 3 (2.10%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (2.10%) CMS
4 1 (0.70%) Apache
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) EPiServer
Applications
1 18 (12.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (11.19%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (4.20%) Adobe After Effects
3 6 (4.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (4.20%) Photoshop
4 5 (3.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (2.80%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (2.80%) Adobe Premiere
5 4 (2.80%) Sketch
6 3 (2.10%) MS Visio
7 2 (1.40%) Blender
7 2 (1.40%) InDesign
7 2 (1.40%) Maya
7 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.70%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.70%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (9.79%) Azure
1 14 (9.79%) Figma
2 13 (9.09%) AWS
3 8 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (4.90%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.90%) SaaS
5 6 (4.20%) GCP
6 3 (2.10%) Serverless
7 2 (1.40%) Azure API Management
7 2 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.40%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.40%) IaaS
7 2 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.40%) PaaS
8 1 (0.70%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.70%) Dropbox
8 1 (0.70%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.50%) Internet
2 3 (2.10%) Intranet
2 3 (2.10%) NAS
2 3 (2.10%) SAN
3 1 (0.70%) 3G
3 1 (0.70%) 4G
3 1 (0.70%) 5G
3 1 (0.70%) Broadband
3 1 (0.70%) DHCP
3 1 (0.70%) DNS
3 1 (0.70%) DSL
3 1 (0.70%) Firewall
3 1 (0.70%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.70%) Network Security
3 1 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.20%) Power BI
2 5 (3.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.80%) SAP HANA
3 4 (2.80%) Tableau
4 3 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.10%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.40%) MySQL
6 1 (0.70%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (5.59%) JIRA
2 7 (4.90%) Git
3 4 (2.80%) JUnit
3 4 (2.80%) Selenium
4 3 (2.10%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.40%) Axure RP
5 2 (1.40%) Gerrit
5 2 (1.40%) Postman
5 2 (1.40%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (1.40%) RStudio
5 2 (1.40%) Serenity BDD
5 2 (1.40%) TestNG
5 2 (1.40%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.70%) Darcs
6 1 (0.70%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.70%) Protractor
6 1 (0.70%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 77 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 34 (23.78%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (20.98%) Finance
4 23 (16.08%) Legal
5 21 (14.69%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (9.79%) Marketing
6 14 (9.79%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (7.69%) Law
8 10 (6.99%) Retail
9 9 (6.29%) Banking
9 9 (6.29%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (5.59%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.80%) Aerospace
11 4 (2.80%) Electronics
11 4 (2.80%) Games
12 3 (2.10%) Manufacturing
12 3 (2.10%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.40%) Digital Economy
13 2 (1.40%) Local Government
14 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (15.38%) Analyst
2 16 (11.19%) Designer
3 14 (9.79%) Senior
4 10 (6.99%) Lead
5 9 (6.29%) Business Analyst
6 8 (5.59%) Developer
7 7 (4.90%) SAP Analyst
8 6 (4.20%) Integration Analyst
8 6 (4.20%) Test Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) Architect
9 5 (3.50%) Senior Test Engineer
10 4 (2.80%) Business Integration Analyst
10 4 (2.80%) Coordinator
10 4 (2.80%) Integration Specialist
10 4 (2.80%) Service Designer
10 4 (2.80%) Validation Engineer
10 4 (2.80%) Verification Engineer
11 3 (2.10%) Desktop Support
11 3 (2.10%) Project Manager
11 3 (2.10%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.80%) REST
2 3 (2.10%) CSS
2 3 (2.10%) EDI
2 3 (2.10%) Swagger
3 2 (1.40%) HTML
3 2 (1.40%) OpenAPI
3 2 (1.40%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (0.70%) .NET
4 1 (0.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.70%) jQuery
4 1 (0.70%) JSON
4 1 (0.70%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.70%) NestJS
4 1 (0.70%) Next.js
4 1 (0.70%) Prisma
4 1 (0.70%) React
4 1 (0.70%) Shiny
4 1 (0.70%) SOAP
4 1 (0.70%) Visualforce
4 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.49%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (6.99%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.29%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.59%) Graphic Design
4 8 (5.59%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.50%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.10%) Animation
6 3 (2.10%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.40%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.40%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.40%) Social Media
7 2 (1.40%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.70%) Blog
8 1 (0.70%) CBDC
8 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.90%) Windows
2 3 (2.10%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.70%) Linux
3 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (37.06%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (25.87%) Agile
3 33 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (12.59%) Project Management
5 16 (11.19%) Artificial Intelligence
5 16 (11.19%) Business Analysis
5 16 (11.19%) Decision-Making
6 14 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (9.79%) Strategic Thinking
7 13 (9.09%) Change Management
7 13 (9.09%) Scrum
8 12 (8.39%) Data Protection
8 12 (8.39%) DevOps
9 11 (7.69%) Data Strategy
9 11 (7.69%) Innovative Thinking
9 11 (7.69%) Project Delivery
9 11 (7.69%) Validation
10 10 (6.99%) Customer-Centricity
10 10 (6.99%) Kanban
10 10 (6.99%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.29%) Python
2 8 (5.59%) SQL
3 5 (3.50%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.80%) C#
4 4 (2.80%) Java
5 3 (2.10%) Bicep
5 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.40%) C++
7 1 (0.70%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.70%) C
7 1 (0.70%) Go
7 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.70%) R
7 1 (0.70%) Rust
7 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (16.78%) Degree
2 21 (14.69%) Security Cleared
3 14 (9.79%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.59%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.50%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.80%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (2.10%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.40%) CBAP
8 2 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.40%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.70%) CSPO
9 1 (0.70%) IIBA
9 1 (0.70%) ISEB
9 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.70%) PMP
9 1 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.79%) QA
2 10 (6.99%) GDPR
3 3 (2.10%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.40%) PMO
5 1 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (2.10%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.10%) Docker
1 3 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (2.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.10%) Progress Chef
1 3 (2.10%) Puppet
1 3 (2.10%) Terraform
2 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (21.68%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.99%) Oracle
3 9 (6.29%) SAP
4 8 (5.59%) Adobe
5 4 (2.80%) Citrix
5 4 (2.80%) HP
6 3 (2.10%) BT
6 3 (2.10%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.10%) VMware
7 2 (1.40%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.40%) Cadence
8 1 (0.70%) Google
8 1 (0.70%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.70%) Reuters
8 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.70%) Splunk
8 1 (0.70%) Workday