Thought Leadership Contracts in the UK excluding London

Thought Leadership
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Thought Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 355 377
Rank change year-on-year +5 +22 -4
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 48 92 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.40% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.45% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 41 85
10th Percentile £363 £408 £425
25th Percentile £441 £455 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.96% +4.00% +17.92%
75th Percentile £635 £800 £738
90th Percentile £663 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £569 £569 £668
% change year-on-year +0.09% -14.79% +21.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £23.27 £73.50 -
25th Percentile £32.89 - -
Median hourly rate £48.93 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -37.28% - -
75th Percentile £64.96 £90.00 -
90th Percentile £74.59 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £78.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -32.69% +138.17% +10.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Thought Leadership 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Thought Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in the UK excluding London

Thought Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Thought Leadership in the UK excluding London

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Thought Leadership in the UK excluding London

Thought Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Thought Leadership in the UK excluding London

Thought Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Thought Leadership in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Thought Leadership in the UK excluding London

Thought Leadership
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Thought Leadership within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
North of England +41 16 £577 -17.64% 38
North West +28 13 £577 - 29
Midlands +28 12 £600 +4.35% 19
South East -29 8 £615 -8.89% 46
West Midlands +15 6 £600 +4.35% 12
Scotland +39 5 £375 -61.54% 10
East Midlands +12 5 £600 -14.29% 7
South West +4 5 £475 -26.92% 17
Yorkshire +21 3 - - 7
East of England +6 1 - - 12
Northern Ireland - 1 £338 - 7
Thought Leadership
UK

Thought Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.17%) Apache
2 2 (4.17%) CMS
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.08%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle AGIS
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.42%) Azure
1 5 (10.42%) Google Analytics
2 4 (8.33%) AWS
3 3 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (6.25%) PaaS
3 3 (6.25%) SaaS
4 2 (4.17%) Canva
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.17%) Slack
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.08%) IaaS
5 1 (2.08%) Lucidchart
5 1 (2.08%) Miro
5 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Intranet
2 1 (2.08%) Network Security
2 1 (2.08%) PBX
2 1 (2.08%) VoIP
2 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) DB2
1 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
1 2 (4.17%) SQLite
2 1 (2.08%) Big Data
2 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.08%) HDInsight
2 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.08%) MySQL
2 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) CircleCI
2 2 (4.17%) GitLab
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.17%) JUnit
3 1 (2.08%) JMeter
3 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.00%) Finance
3 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.50%) Marketing
5 3 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Law
6 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.08%) Advertising
7 1 (2.08%) Automotive
7 1 (2.08%) Back Office
7 1 (2.08%) Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.08%) Publishing
7 1 (2.08%) Retail
7 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) Consultant
2 9 (18.75%) Architect
3 7 (14.58%) Project Manager
4 4 (8.33%) Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Lead
5 3 (6.25%) Analytics Consultant
5 3 (6.25%) Applications Architect
5 3 (6.25%) AWS Architect
5 3 (6.25%) AWS Security Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 3 (6.25%) Functional Consultant
5 3 (6.25%) Security Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) Content Manager
6 2 (4.17%) Data Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) E-Commerce Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) Web Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) XML
2 2 (4.17%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (4.17%) RxJava
2 2 (4.17%) Spring
3 1 (2.08%) .NET
3 1 (2.08%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.08%) CSS
3 1 (2.08%) Dagger
3 1 (2.08%) HTML
3 1 (2.08%) jQuery
3 1 (2.08%) Kafka
3 1 (2.08%) Node.js
3 1 (2.08%) React
3 1 (2.08%) Retrofit
3 1 (2.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
1 3 (6.25%) Social Media
2 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.17%) Video Editing
3 1 (2.08%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.08%) Solar Power
3 1 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Unix
2 1 (2.08%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (41.67%) Agile
2 14 (29.17%) Project Management
3 11 (22.92%) Software Engineering
3 11 (22.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (20.83%) Data Modelling
5 8 (16.67%) Analytics
5 8 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 8 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
5 8 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (14.58%) CRM
6 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.58%) Requirements Gathering
6 7 (14.58%) Roadmaps
6 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
6 7 (14.58%) Systems Engineering
7 6 (12.50%) Microservices
7 6 (12.50%) Migration
7 6 (12.50%) Use Case
8 5 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (10.42%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.83%) SQL
2 7 (14.58%) PL/SQL
3 6 (12.50%) Java
4 3 (6.25%) Python
5 2 (4.17%) C#
5 2 (4.17%) Kotlin
5 2 (4.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.08%) PHP
6 1 (2.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.17%) PMP
3 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.08%) CCNP
4 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) PhD
4 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) PMO
1 3 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.08%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) Avaloq
2 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.42%) Google
4 3 (6.25%) Databricks
5 2 (4.17%) Greenplum
5 2 (4.17%) MuleSoft
5 2 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.17%) SAP
5 2 (4.17%) VMware
6 1 (2.08%) Avaya
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco
6 1 (2.08%) Ericsson
6 1 (2.08%) F5
6 1 (2.08%) HubSpot
6 1 (2.08%) Juniper
6 1 (2.08%) Nokia
6 1 (2.08%) Oracle
6 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.08%) Ribbon
6 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow