Thought Leadership Contracts in England

Thought Leadership
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Thought Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 432 394 410
Rank change year-on-year -38 +16 -7
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 111 267 433
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.53% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.59% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 136 261
10th Percentile £322 £365 £451
25th Percentile £463 £468 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £600 £660
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% -9.09% +20.00%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £775
90th Percentile £783 £873 £863
UK median daily rate £570 £595 £650
% change year-on-year -4.20% -8.46% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £40.15 £71.25 £30.25
25th Percentile £45.25 £72.38 £31.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £75.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.46% +130.53% +1.54%
75th Percentile £58.75 £77.38 £39.94
90th Percentile £72.10 £77.75 £44.63
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £75.50 £32.75
% change year-on-year -30.46% +130.53% +1.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Thought Leadership 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 32,201 45,536 64,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,119 31,974 45,794
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% +9.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 1,592 1,770
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Thought Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in England

Thought Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership in England.

Daily rate trend for Thought Leadership in England

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Thought Leadership in England

Thought Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership in England.

Hourly rate trend for Thought Leadership in England

Thought Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Thought Leadership in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Thought Leadership in England

Thought Leadership
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 Thought Leadership within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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 -3 65 £575 -4.17% 197
Midlands +34 15 £600 +13.74% 15
North of England +38 14 £577 -5.88% 33
North West +33 11 £577 +9.81% 19
West Midlands +28 7 £600 +4.35% 11
East Midlands +27 7 £625 +38.89% 4
South East -20 7 £495 -17.50% 36
Yorkshire +23 3 - - 10
South West +6 3 £475 -26.92% 18
East of England +11 1 - - 16
Thought Leadership
UK

Thought Leadership
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 4 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.70%) CMS
3 2 (1.80%) Apache
4 1 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.90%) Confluence
4 1 (0.90%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.90%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.90%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.90%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.90%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.90%) Oracle AGIS
1 1 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (0.90%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (0.90%) Oracle Retail
1 1 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.90%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.41%) Azure
2 12 (10.81%) AWS
3 9 (8.11%) SaaS
4 7 (6.31%) Google Analytics
5 5 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (4.50%) GCP
5 5 (4.50%) PaaS
6 3 (2.70%) IaaS
6 3 (2.70%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.80%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.80%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.80%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.80%) GitHub
7 2 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.80%) Slack
8 1 (0.90%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) Firewall
1 4 (3.60%) LAN
2 3 (2.70%) WAN
3 2 (1.80%) Multicast
3 2 (1.80%) VPN
4 1 (0.90%) DHCP
4 1 (0.90%) DNS
4 1 (0.90%) Internet
4 1 (0.90%) IPsec
4 1 (0.90%) Network Security
4 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.90%) VLAN
4 1 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.90%) Wireless
4 1 (0.90%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.60%) Big Data
2 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.80%) MySQL
3 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.80%) Power BI
3 2 (1.80%) SQLite
4 1 (0.90%) Bigtable
4 1 (0.90%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.90%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.90%) HBase
4 1 (0.90%) Looker
4 1 (0.90%) Metadata
4 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.90%) Redis
4 1 (0.90%) Sqoop
4 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (8.11%) JIRA
2 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.80%) JUnit
2 2 (1.80%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (1.80%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.90%) Appium
3 1 (0.90%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.90%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.90%) Darcs
3 1 (0.90%) Git
3 1 (0.90%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.90%) JMeter
3 1 (0.90%) Mercurial
3 1 (0.90%) Postman
3 1 (0.90%) Selenium
3 1 (0.90%) Travis CI
General
1 43 (38.74%) Social Skills
2 37 (33.33%) Finance
3 22 (19.82%) Marketing
4 14 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.21%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.50%) Retail
7 4 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Advertising
8 3 (2.70%) Banking
8 3 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.70%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.90%) Back Office
10 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.90%) French Language
10 1 (0.90%) Front Office
10 1 (0.90%) German Language
10 1 (0.90%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 25 (22.52%) Architect
2 14 (12.61%) Consultant
3 11 (9.91%) Senior
4 8 (7.21%) Lead
4 8 (7.21%) Project Manager
4 8 (7.21%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (6.31%) Communications Manager
5 7 (6.31%) Marketing Manager
6 6 (5.41%) AWS Architect
6 6 (5.41%) Security Architect
6 6 (5.41%) Senior Manager
6 6 (5.41%) Technical Engineer
7 4 (3.60%) Analytics Consultant
7 4 (3.60%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (2.70%) Applications Architect
8 3 (2.70%) AWS Security Architect
8 3 (2.70%) AWS Solution Architect
8 3 (2.70%) Data Consultant
8 3 (2.70%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 3 (2.70%) Senior Communications Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.21%) .NET
2 3 (2.70%) CSS
2 3 (2.70%) HTML
2 3 (2.70%) jQuery
2 3 (2.70%) Kafka
2 3 (2.70%) XML
3 2 (1.80%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.80%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (1.80%) LDAP
3 2 (1.80%) Node.js
3 2 (1.80%) React
3 2 (1.80%) REST
3 2 (1.80%) RxJava
3 2 (1.80%) Web Services
4 1 (0.90%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.90%) Dagger
4 1 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.90%) Retrofit
4 1 (0.90%) Svelte
4 1 (0.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.01%) Social Media
2 9 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.70%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.80%) PKI
6 2 (1.80%) Video Editing
6 2 (1.80%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (0.90%) Blog
7 1 (0.90%) CBDC
7 1 (0.90%) Digital Currency
7 1 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.90%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.90%) Life Science
7 1 (0.90%) Photography
7 1 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.80%) Solaris
1 2 (1.80%) Unix
1 2 (1.80%) VMS
1 2 (1.80%) Windows
2 1 (0.90%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (23.42%) Agile
2 22 (19.82%) Project Management
3 20 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (17.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (14.41%) Roadmaps
6 15 (13.51%) Analytics
7 12 (10.81%) Matrix Organization
7 12 (10.81%) Software Engineering
8 11 (9.91%) Computer Science
8 11 (9.91%) CRM
8 11 (9.91%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (9.91%) Data Modelling
8 11 (9.91%) DevOps
9 10 (9.01%) Mentoring
10 9 (8.11%) Change Management
10 9 (8.11%) Design Patterns
10 9 (8.11%) Migration
10 9 (8.11%) Requirements Gathering
10 9 (8.11%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
10 9 (8.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.41%) SQL
2 11 (9.91%) C#
3 7 (6.31%) C++
3 7 (6.31%) Java
3 7 (6.31%) PL/SQL
4 6 (5.41%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.41%) VB.NET
4 6 (5.41%) VBA
5 5 (4.50%) Python
6 3 (2.70%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.80%) Scala
8 1 (0.90%) ABAP
8 1 (0.90%) C
8 1 (0.90%) Go
8 1 (0.90%) PHP
8 1 (0.90%) Ruby
8 1 (0.90%) Rust
8 1 (0.90%) Swift
8 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (18.92%) Degree
2 9 (8.11%) SC Cleared
2 9 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.50%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.60%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.70%) PhD
6 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.90%) CCNA CyberOps
7 1 (0.90%) CCNP
7 1 (0.90%) CISA
7 1 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.90%) CISM
7 1 (0.90%) CISSP
7 1 (0.90%) MBA
7 1 (0.90%) PMP
7 1 (0.90%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.31%) QA
2 5 (4.50%) NIST
3 2 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.80%) PMO
3 2 (1.80%) SLA
4 1 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.90%) GxP
4 1 (0.90%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.90%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.90%) Ansible
2 1 (0.90%) Grafana
2 1 (0.90%) Kibana
2 1 (0.90%) logstash
2 1 (0.90%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.90%) Puppet
2 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.91%) Google
3 7 (6.31%) Avaloq
3 7 (6.31%) Salesforce
4 5 (4.50%) Cisco
4 5 (4.50%) Databricks
4 5 (4.50%) Oracle
5 3 (2.70%) Genesys
5 3 (2.70%) Informatica
5 3 (2.70%) Instagram
5 3 (2.70%) SAP
5 3 (2.70%) Twitter
6 2 (1.80%) Adobe
6 2 (1.80%) Cadence
6 2 (1.80%) Cognizant
6 2 (1.80%) F5
6 2 (1.80%) Facebook
6 2 (1.80%) Omniture
6 2 (1.80%) Talend
6 2 (1.80%) VMware