Creative Thinking Contracts

Creative Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 474 541
Rank change year-on-year +31 +67 -48
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 155 253 325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.42% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.47% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 166 212
10th Percentile £313 £400 £313
25th Percentile £416 £453 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £593 £650 £625
90th Percentile £638 £744 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -6.36% +22.22% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 39
10th Percentile £15.28 £26.63 -
25th Percentile £18.25 £36.13 £15.90
Median hourly rate £19.50 £50.00 £16.93
Median % change year-on-year -61.00% +195.33% -23.05%
75th Percentile £54.76 £62.50 £17.97
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.00 £42.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.52 £50.00 £16.93
% change year-on-year -44.97% +195.33% -20.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the UK

Creative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Creative Thinking in the UK

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Thinking in the UK

Creative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Creative Thinking in the UK

Creative Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Creative Thinking over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Creative Thinking in the UK

Creative Thinking
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +46 143 £500 -9.09% 255
London +70 72 £485 -11.82% 116
UK excluding London +11 71 £515 -6.36% 147
Work from Home +62 44 £515 -8.85% 106
North of England +31 20 £575 +4.55% 40
South East -3 19 £519 -16.16% 40
South West +28 16 £600 +35.59% 25
North West +24 14 £613 +22.50% 22
Midlands +5 10 £488 -2.50% 16
Scotland +35 6 £550 +2.80% 8
East Midlands +20 6 £513 +13.89% 9
Yorkshire +10 5 £388 -29.55% 15
West Midlands +10 4 £375 -28.57% 7
East of England +9 4 £488 +5.98% 18
Northern Ireland +8 1 £513 +28.13% 2

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.23%) Confluence
3 3 (1.94%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (1.94%) CMS
4 1 (0.65%) Apache
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.65%) EPiServer
Applications
1 18 (11.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (10.32%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.87%) Adobe After Effects
3 6 (3.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.87%) Photoshop
4 5 (3.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (2.58%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (2.58%) Adobe Premiere
5 4 (2.58%) Sketch
6 3 (1.94%) MS Visio
7 2 (1.29%) Blender
7 2 (1.29%) InDesign
7 2 (1.29%) Maya
7 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.65%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.65%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.65%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 14 (9.03%) Azure
1 14 (9.03%) Figma
2 13 (8.39%) AWS
3 9 (5.81%) SaaS
4 8 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.52%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.87%) GCP
7 4 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.94%) Serverless
9 2 (1.29%) Azure API Management
9 2 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.29%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.29%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.29%) IaaS
9 2 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.29%) PaaS
10 1 (0.65%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.65%) Dropbox
10 1 (0.65%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.87%) Internet
2 3 (1.94%) Intranet
2 3 (1.94%) NAS
2 3 (1.94%) SAN
3 1 (0.65%) 3G
3 1 (0.65%) 4G
3 1 (0.65%) 5G
3 1 (0.65%) Broadband
3 1 (0.65%) DHCP
3 1 (0.65%) DNS
3 1 (0.65%) DSL
3 1 (0.65%) Firewall
3 1 (0.65%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.65%) Network Security
3 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.87%) Power BI
2 5 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.58%) SAP HANA
3 4 (2.58%) Tableau
4 3 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.94%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.29%) MySQL
6 1 (0.65%) Big Data
6 1 (0.65%) DB2
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (5.81%) JIRA
2 8 (5.16%) Git
3 4 (2.58%) JUnit
3 4 (2.58%) Selenium
4 3 (1.94%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.29%) Axure RP
5 2 (1.29%) Gerrit
5 2 (1.29%) Postman
5 2 (1.29%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (1.29%) RStudio
5 2 (1.29%) Serenity BDD
5 2 (1.29%) TestNG
5 2 (1.29%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.65%) Darcs
6 1 (0.65%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.65%) Protractor
6 1 (0.65%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (55.48%) Social Skills
2 36 (23.23%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (21.29%) Finance
4 25 (16.13%) Legal
5 21 (13.55%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (9.03%) Marketing
6 14 (9.03%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (7.10%) Banking
7 11 (7.10%) Law
8 10 (6.45%) Retail
9 9 (5.81%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (5.81%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.58%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.58%) Electronics
10 4 (2.58%) Games
11 3 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.94%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.94%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.29%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 24 (15.48%) Analyst
2 20 (12.90%) Designer
3 14 (9.03%) Senior
4 10 (6.45%) Lead
5 9 (5.81%) Business Analyst
6 8 (5.16%) Developer
6 8 (5.16%) Service Designer
7 7 (4.52%) SAP Analyst
8 6 (3.87%) Architect
8 6 (3.87%) Integration Analyst
8 6 (3.87%) Test Engineer
9 5 (3.23%) Senior Test Engineer
10 4 (2.58%) Business Integration Analyst
10 4 (2.58%) Coordinator
10 4 (2.58%) Integration Specialist
10 4 (2.58%) Procurement Officer
10 4 (2.58%) Validation Engineer
10 4 (2.58%) Verification Engineer
11 3 (1.94%) Senior Designer
11 3 (1.94%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.58%) REST
2 3 (1.94%) CSS
2 3 (1.94%) EDI
2 3 (1.94%) HTML
2 3 (1.94%) Swagger
3 2 (1.29%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.29%) OpenAPI
3 2 (1.29%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (0.65%) .NET
4 1 (0.65%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.65%) HTML5
4 1 (0.65%) JSON
4 1 (0.65%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.65%) NestJS
4 1 (0.65%) Next.js
4 1 (0.65%) Prisma
4 1 (0.65%) React
4 1 (0.65%) Shiny
4 1 (0.65%) SOAP
4 1 (0.65%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.26%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (6.45%) Management Information System
2 10 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.16%) Graphic Design
3 8 (5.16%) Virtual Team
4 5 (3.23%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.94%) Animation
5 3 (1.94%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.29%) Augmented Reality
6 2 (1.29%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.29%) Social Media
6 2 (1.29%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (0.65%) Blog
7 1 (0.65%) CBDC
7 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.65%) NHS
7 1 (0.65%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.52%) Windows
2 3 (1.94%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.65%) Linux
3 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (27.74%) Agile
3 40 (25.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (13.55%) Business Analysis
5 19 (12.26%) Decision-Making
5 19 (12.26%) Project Management
6 18 (11.61%) Strategic Thinking
7 16 (10.32%) Artificial Intelligence
7 16 (10.32%) Change Management
8 14 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (9.03%) Scrum
9 13 (8.39%) Customer Experience
9 13 (8.39%) Customer-Centricity
9 13 (8.39%) DevOps
9 13 (8.39%) Impact Assessments
10 12 (7.74%) Data Protection
10 12 (7.74%) Design Thinking
10 12 (7.74%) Service Management
11 11 (7.10%) Innovative Thinking
11 11 (7.10%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.81%) Python
1 9 (5.81%) SQL
2 6 (3.87%) JavaScript
3 5 (3.23%) Java
4 4 (2.58%) C#
5 3 (1.94%) Bicep
5 3 (1.94%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.29%) C++
6 2 (1.29%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.65%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.65%) C
7 1 (0.65%) Go
7 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.65%) R
7 1 (0.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 25 (16.13%) Degree
2 21 (13.55%) Security Cleared
3 14 (9.03%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.16%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.23%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.58%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (1.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.29%) CBAP
8 2 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.29%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.29%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.65%) CSPO
9 1 (0.65%) IIBA
9 1 (0.65%) ISEB
9 1 (0.65%) PMP
9 1 (0.65%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.03%) QA
2 10 (6.45%) GDPR
3 4 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.29%) PMO
5 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.65%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (1.94%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.94%) Docker
1 3 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (1.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.94%) Progress Chef
1 3 (1.94%) Puppet
1 3 (1.94%) Terraform
2 1 (0.65%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 33 (21.29%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.39%) Oracle
3 9 (5.81%) SAP
4 8 (5.16%) Adobe
5 4 (2.58%) Citrix
5 4 (2.58%) HP
6 3 (1.94%) BT
6 3 (1.94%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.94%) VMware
7 2 (1.29%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.29%) Cadence
8 1 (0.65%) Google
8 1 (0.65%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.65%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.65%) Reuters
8 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.65%) Sparx
8 1 (0.65%) Splunk
8 1 (0.65%) Workday