Innovative Thinking Contracts in the South West

Innovative Thinking
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 167 161
Rank change year-on-year +21 -6 -26
Contract jobs citing Innovative Thinking 1 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.031% 0.083% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.093% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £465
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £770
75th Percentile - - £788
90th Percentile - - £795
England median daily rate £500 £525 £594
% change year-on-year -4.76% -11.58% +40.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
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
South West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,645 3,232 3,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.15% 89.63% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,687 2,378 2,345
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 331 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.63 £15.84 £20.24
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.70 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% +24.87% +11.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £70.54
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the South West

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Innovative Thinking in the South West

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Innovative Thinking in the South West

Innovative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 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
Devon - 1 - - 3
Innovative Thinking
England

Innovative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
1 1 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) IT Governance
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft