Innovative Thinking Contracts in England

Innovative Thinking
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Innovative Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Innovative Thinking over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 493 584 570
Rank change year-on-year +91 -14 -48
Contract jobs citing Innovative Thinking 52 75 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.15% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.16% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 40 104
10th Percentile £275 £205 £138
25th Percentile £405 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £581
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -9.68% +38.39%
75th Percentile £669 £661 £688
90th Percentile £745 £713 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +28.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile - £18.45 £11.50
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.13 £13.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £37.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +134.38% -13.51%
75th Percentile £20.75 £39.38 £46.88
90th Percentile - £39.75 £57.00
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £37.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year -48.00% +134.38% -13.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Innovative 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 32,171 45,739 64,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.55% 90.26% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,096 32,069 45,706
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 1,617 1,773
10th Percentile £12.89 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.23
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in England

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Innovative Thinking in England

Innovative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Innovative Thinking in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Innovative Thinking in England

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Innovative Thinking in England

Innovative 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 Innovative Thinking within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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 +111 34 £600 +4.35% 56
Midlands +28 7 £325 - 15
West Midlands +31 5 £300 - 7
North of England +27 4 £500 -4.76% 31
South East +13 3 £508 -7.73% 47
East Midlands +22 2 £488 - 8
North West +19 2 £725 - 26
North East - 2 £500 - 2
South West +21 1 - - 22
Innovative Thinking
UK

Innovative 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 2 (3.85%) CMS
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.85%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (3.85%) Cerner Millennium
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.31%) Azure
2 5 (9.62%) AWS
2 5 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.69%) GCP
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.77%) SaaS
5 2 (3.85%) IaaS
6 1 (1.92%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.92%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Firewall
1 1 (1.92%) Network Security
1 1 (1.92%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Power BI
1 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.85%) Data Mining
2 2 (3.85%) Power Query
2 2 (3.85%) Tableau
3 1 (1.92%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.92%) Looker
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 19 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 17 (32.69%) Finance
3 16 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (21.15%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (19.23%) Banking
6 9 (17.31%) Retail
7 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
8 5 (9.62%) Investment Banking
9 3 (5.77%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (5.77%) Marketing
9 3 (5.77%) Retail Banking
10 2 (3.85%) German Language
10 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.92%) French Language
11 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.92%) Local Government
11 1 (1.92%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (17.31%) Analyst
2 8 (15.38%) Architect
3 6 (11.54%) Consultant
3 6 (11.54%) Senior
4 4 (7.69%) Business Architect
4 4 (7.69%) Developer
5 3 (5.77%) Business Consultant
5 3 (5.77%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Digital Product Owner
5 3 (5.77%) Product Owner
5 3 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Configuration Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Designer
6 2 (3.85%) Finance Systems Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Lead
6 2 (3.85%) Product Designer
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) CSS
2 2 (3.85%) DOM
2 2 (3.85%) Express.js
2 2 (3.85%) Flask
2 2 (3.85%) HTML
2 2 (3.85%) jQuery
2 2 (3.85%) Kafka
2 2 (3.85%) Middleware
2 2 (3.85%) Node.js
2 2 (3.85%) Pandas
2 2 (3.85%) React
2 2 (3.85%) REST
2 2 (3.85%) XML
3 1 (1.92%) Dask
3 1 (1.92%) Matplotlib
3 1 (1.92%) NumPy
3 1 (1.92%) Symfony
3 1 (1.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Digital Media
2 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.85%) NHS
3 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.46%) Windows
2 4 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.85%) Linux
4 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (57.69%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (25.00%) Agile
3 11 (21.15%) Creative Thinking
4 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (15.38%) DevOps
4 8 (15.38%) Use Case
5 7 (13.46%) Analytics
5 7 (13.46%) Data Analytics
6 6 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
6 6 (11.54%) Decision-Making
6 6 (11.54%) Scrum
7 5 (9.62%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 5 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (9.62%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (9.62%) Customer Experience
7 5 (9.62%) Project Delivery
7 5 (9.62%) Risk Management
7 5 (9.62%) Roadmaps
7 5 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.62%) Python
2 4 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 4 (7.69%) SQL
3 3 (5.77%) Bicep
3 3 (5.77%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.92%) Java
5 1 (1.92%) PHP
5 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.85%) Degree
1 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
1 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.92%) GDPR
2 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Puppet
1 4 (7.69%) Terraform
2 3 (5.77%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.92%) Ansible
3 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.92%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) Oracle
3 2 (3.85%) Adobe
3 2 (3.85%) Cerner
4 1 (1.92%) Ariba
4 1 (1.92%) Cisco
4 1 (1.92%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.92%) Google
4 1 (1.92%) Monetate
4 1 (1.92%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.92%) SAP
4 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.92%) VMware