Lean Thinking Contracts

Lean Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Lean Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Lean Thinking over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 679 802
Rank change year-on-year +103 +123 -139
Contract jobs citing Lean Thinking 9 14 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.024% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.027% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 27
10th Percentile £573 £445 £425
25th Percentile £606 £488 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% +4.55% -3.93%
75th Percentile £766 £644 £660
90th Percentile £816 £780 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -27.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Lean 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 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lean Thinking in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lean Thinking in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lean Thinking over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lean Thinking in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Lean Thinking in the UK

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Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lean Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England +98 8 £688 +19.57% 4
London +88 8 £688 +19.57% 1
UK excluding London +65 1 - - 5
Scotland - 1 - - 2

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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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (22.22%) Miro
1 2 (22.22%) Smartsheet
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
3 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Local Government
4 2 (22.22%) Police
4 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Business Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Product Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Scrum Master
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Scrum
3 4 (44.44%) Business Analysis
3 4 (44.44%) Coaching
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (44.44%) Customer Experience
3 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
3 4 (44.44%) Objectives and Key Results
3 4 (44.44%) Systems Thinking
4 3 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
4 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (22.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 2 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CSPO
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Citrix
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Planview