Innovative Thinking Contracts in the South East

Innovative Thinking
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 187 198 246
Rank change year-on-year +11 +48 -37
Contract jobs citing Innovative Thinking 4 14 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.072% 0.24% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.085% 0.27% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 15
10th Percentile £408 £488 £193
25th Percentile £442 £497 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £577 £713 £644
90th Percentile £613 £739 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £588
% change year-on-year -4.76% -10.64% +39.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,694 5,167 6,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.65% 89.46% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,751 3,590 4,710
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 223 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.10 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.53
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.18%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.96 £63.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Innovative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Innovative Thinking in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Innovative Thinking in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Innovative Thinking in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Innovative Thinking in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Innovative Thinking in the South East

Innovative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +7 1 £390 -22.00% 17
West Sussex +6 1 - - 2
Hampshire -1 1 - - 10
Berkshire -8 1 £390 -51.25% 7
Surrey - 1 £625 - 17
Innovative Thinking
England

Innovative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Author
1 1 (25.00%) Business Change Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Business Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Change Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Dask
1 1 (25.00%) Flask
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Matplotlib
1 1 (25.00%) NumPy
1 1 (25.00%) Pandas
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Code Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Lean Six Sigma
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Six Sigma
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle