Innovative Thinking Contracts

Innovative Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 627 632
Rank change year-on-year +91 +5 -55
Contract jobs citing Innovative Thinking 58 89 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.15% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.17% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 52 115
10th Percentile £244 £328 £159
25th Percentile £389 £459 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +28.28%
75th Percentile £650 £628 £655
90th Percentile £738 £710 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £439 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -16.43% +5.00% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile - £18.45 £11.10
25th Percentile £18.25 £25.13 £12.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £37.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +158.62% -21.62%
75th Percentile £20.75 £39.38 £16.50
90th Percentile - £39.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £37.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year - +158.62% -21.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
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 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Innovative Thinking over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +95 51 £500 -4.76% 191
London +107 33 £550 - 56
UK excluding London +42 20 £439 -16.43% 151
Work from Home +90 16 £500 -4.76% 76
Midlands +27 7 £325 - 18
Scotland +31 5 £200 -63.47% 11
West Midlands +31 5 £300 - 10
North of England +32 4 £500 -4.76% 28
South East +9 3 £508 -7.73% 44
North West +22 2 £725 - 23
East Midlands +19 2 £488 - 8
North East - 2 £500 - 2
South West +13 1 - - 23

Innovative 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 2 (3.45%) CMS
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.72%) JBoss
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.45%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (3.45%) Cerner Millennium
2 2 (3.45%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.41%) Azure
2 7 (12.07%) AWS
3 5 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (8.62%) IaaS
4 4 (6.90%) GCP
4 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.17%) iPaaS
5 3 (5.17%) PaaS
5 3 (5.17%) SaaS
6 2 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.72%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.72%) dbt
7 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.72%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) LAN
1 3 (5.17%) WAN
2 1 (1.72%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) Network Security
2 1 (1.72%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.17%) Power BI
3 2 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
3 2 (3.45%) Power Query
3 2 (3.45%) Tableau
4 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.72%) Looker
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.72%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 20 (34.48%) Finance
3 16 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (18.97%) Presentation Skills
4 11 (18.97%) Public Sector
5 10 (17.24%) Banking
6 9 (15.52%) Retail
7 5 (8.62%) Investment Banking
8 3 (5.17%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (5.17%) Local Government
8 3 (5.17%) Marketing
8 3 (5.17%) Retail Banking
9 2 (3.45%) German Language
9 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.72%) French Language
10 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.72%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (20.69%) Architect
2 9 (15.52%) Analyst
3 8 (13.79%) Senior
4 6 (10.34%) Consultant
5 4 (6.90%) Business Architect
5 4 (6.90%) Technical Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Business Consultant
6 3 (5.17%) Developer
6 3 (5.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Digital Product Owner
6 3 (5.17%) Product Owner
6 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Author
7 2 (3.45%) Designer
7 2 (3.45%) Finance Systems Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Lead
7 2 (3.45%) Product Designer
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Product Owner
7 2 (3.45%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) .NET
1 3 (5.17%) CSS
1 3 (5.17%) J2EE
1 3 (5.17%) Web Services
2 2 (3.45%) DOM
2 2 (3.45%) Express.js
2 2 (3.45%) Flask
2 2 (3.45%) HTML
2 2 (3.45%) jQuery
2 2 (3.45%) Middleware
2 2 (3.45%) Node.js
2 2 (3.45%) Pandas
2 2 (3.45%) React
2 2 (3.45%) REST
2 2 (3.45%) XML
3 1 (1.72%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (1.72%) Kafka
3 1 (1.72%) Matplotlib
3 1 (1.72%) NumPy
3 1 (1.72%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Digital Media
2 3 (5.17%) Client/Server
2 3 (5.17%) N-Tier
2 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.45%) NHS
3 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.07%) Windows
2 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.45%) Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (53.45%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (22.41%) Agile
3 12 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (18.97%) Creative Thinking
5 8 (13.79%) Analytics
5 8 (13.79%) Project Delivery
5 8 (13.79%) Roadmaps
5 8 (13.79%) Use Case
6 7 (12.07%) Data Analytics
6 7 (12.07%) DevOps
7 6 (10.34%) CI/CD
7 6 (10.34%) Decision-Making
7 6 (10.34%) Scrum
7 6 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (8.62%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (8.62%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 5 (8.62%) Customer Experience
8 5 (8.62%) Data Management
8 5 (8.62%) Enterprise Architecture
8 5 (8.62%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
1 4 (6.90%) Python
1 4 (6.90%) SQL
2 3 (5.17%) Bicep
2 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (3.45%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) Degree
1 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
1 2 (3.45%) HNC
1 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Hyper-V
1 4 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.90%) Puppet
1 4 (6.90%) Terraform
2 3 (5.17%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.72%) Ansible
3 1 (1.72%) Control-M
3 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.72%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) Oracle
3 4 (6.90%) VMware
4 2 (3.45%) Adobe
4 2 (3.45%) Cerner
5 1 (1.72%) Ariba
5 1 (1.72%) BMC
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco
5 1 (1.72%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.72%) Databricks
5 1 (1.72%) Google
5 1 (1.72%) IBM
5 1 (1.72%) Monetate
5 1 (1.72%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.72%) SAP
5 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow