Creative Thinking Contracts in the Midlands

Creative Thinking
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 135 194
Rank change year-on-year +7 +59 -47
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 10 30 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.37% 0.87% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.98% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 3
10th Percentile £284 £416 £415
25th Percentile £391 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +13.89% +32.35%
75th Percentile £550 £688 £550
90th Percentile £573 - £610
England median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £8.75 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £12.50 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -75.00% - -
75th Percentile £16.25 £55.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £19.50 £50.00 £16.93
% change year-on-year -61.00% +195.33% -23.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,243 3,047 4,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.19% 88.47% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 2,126 3,298
10th Percentile £238 £250 £249
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £567
90th Percentile £700 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 119 152
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.96 £10.05
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.32% +9.31%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.81 £22.03
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £34.20
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Creative Thinking in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Thinking in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Creative Thinking in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
East Midlands +20 6 £513 +13.89% 9
West Midlands +10 4 £375 -28.57% 7
Creative Thinking
England

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) AutoCAD
1 1 (10.00%) Autodesk Inventor
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (10.00%) WhatsApp
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Aerospace
2 4 (40.00%) Electronics
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Validation Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Verification Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AutoCAD Designer
3 1 (10.00%) CAD Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Development Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Graduate
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Development Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Software Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Software Validation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) NHS
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Systems Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Validation
3 4 (40.00%) Verification and Validation
4 3 (30.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) BPMN
5 2 (20.00%) Business Case
5 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Change Management
5 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Lean Six Sigma
5 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
5 2 (20.00%) Project Management
5 2 (20.00%) Six Sigma
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Chartered Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) CBAP
3 1 (10.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) SAP