Innovative Thinking Contracts in Scotland

Innovative Thinking
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 159 167
Rank change year-on-year +36 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing Innovative Thinking 5 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.23% 0.28% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.31% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 0
10th Percentile - £511 -
25th Percentile - £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £548 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.47% - -
75th Percentile £444 £578 -
90th Percentile £590 £588 -
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.25% +27.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,936 2,599 3,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.48% 92.52% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,166 1,869 2,315
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £386 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £580 £558 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £12.04 £19.45
Median hourly rate £18.79 £16.86 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -57.86% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £49.24 £48.95
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.78 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in Scotland

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Innovative Thinking in Scotland

Innovative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Innovative Thinking in Scotland

Innovative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 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
Edinburgh +43 3 £675 +28.57% 6
Argyll and Bute - 1 £200 -
Innovative Thinking
UK

Innovative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) IaaS
1 3 (60.00%) iPaaS
1 3 (60.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
1 3 (60.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) BusinessObjects
General
1 5 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Technical Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) J2EE
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (60.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Architecture Governance
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
1 3 (60.00%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (60.00%) SOA
1 3 (60.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (40.00%) Document Management
2 2 (40.00%) Line Management
2 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) VMware