Innovative Thinking Contracts in London

Innovative Thinking
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 461 485
Rank change year-on-year +94 +24 -59
Contract jobs citing Innovative Thinking 34 34 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.13% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.14% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 54
10th Percentile £363 £450 £421
25th Percentile £450 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -12.80% +31.58%
75th Percentile £688 £666 £697
90th Percentile £750 £685 £821
England median daily rate £500 £525 £594
% change year-on-year -4.76% -11.58% +40.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.25 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £19.50 £37.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year -48.00% +158.62% -21.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,768 24,449 35,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.61% 91.02% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,296 17,572 26,215
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 279 425
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.60 £17.20
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.57 £23.91
Median hourly rate £29.00 £39.00 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.64% +7.11% +12.03%
75th Percentile £47.50 £63.88 £50.75
90th Percentile £65.90 £80.00 £68.50
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in London

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Innovative Thinking in London

Innovative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Innovative Thinking in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Innovative Thinking in London

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Innovative Thinking in London

Innovative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Central London +46 2 £738 +47.50% 7
Innovative Thinking
England

Innovative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (5.88%) CMS
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.82%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) Azure
2 5 (14.71%) AWS
3 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.76%) GCP
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.94%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.94%) IaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.88%) Tableau
3 1 (2.94%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.94%) Looker
3 1 (2.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) Terragrunt
General
1 13 (38.24%) Finance
2 12 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (29.41%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (26.47%) Retail
5 8 (23.53%) Banking
5 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
6 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
7 4 (11.76%) Investment Banking
8 3 (8.82%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (8.82%) German Language
8 3 (8.82%) Marketing
8 3 (8.82%) Retail Banking
9 1 (2.94%) French Language
9 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.94%) Local Government
9 1 (2.94%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (17.65%) Analyst
1 6 (17.65%) Architect
1 6 (17.65%) Consultant
2 4 (11.76%) Business Architect
2 4 (11.76%) Senior
3 3 (8.82%) Business Consultant
3 3 (8.82%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Digital Product Owner
3 3 (8.82%) Product Owner
3 3 (8.82%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Configuration Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Lead
4 2 (5.88%) Senior Product Owner
4 2 (5.88%) Service Desk Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (2.94%) Business Design Analyst
5 1 (2.94%) Data Analytics Consultant
5 1 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) CSS
1 2 (5.88%) DOM
1 2 (5.88%) Express.js
1 2 (5.88%) HTML
1 2 (5.88%) Node.js
1 2 (5.88%) React
1 2 (5.88%) XML
2 1 (2.94%) Flask
2 1 (2.94%) jQuery
2 1 (2.94%) Kafka
2 1 (2.94%) Pandas
2 1 (2.94%) Symfony
2 1 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Digital Media
2 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Windows
2 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (64.71%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (26.47%) Agile
3 8 (23.53%) Creative Thinking
4 6 (17.65%) DevOps
4 6 (17.65%) Roadmaps
4 6 (17.65%) Use Case
5 5 (14.71%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
5 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (14.71%) Customer Engagement
5 5 (14.71%) Customer Experience
5 5 (14.71%) Project Delivery
5 5 (14.71%) Scrum
5 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (14.71%) Strategic Roadmap
5 5 (14.71%) Target Operating Model
6 4 (11.76%) Presales
6 4 (11.76%) Process Improvement
6 4 (11.76%) Qualitative Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) Bicep
1 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
1 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
1 3 (8.82%) Python
2 2 (5.88%) SQL
3 1 (2.94%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) GDPR
1 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Puppet
1 4 (11.76%) Terraform
2 3 (8.82%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.94%) Ansible
3 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle
3 2 (5.88%) Adobe
4 1 (2.94%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.94%) Google
4 1 (2.94%) Monetate
4 1 (2.94%) Optimizely
4 1 (2.94%) Salesforce