Systems Thinking Contracts

Systems Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Systems Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Systems 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 562 653 706
Rank change year-on-year +91 +53 -65
Contract jobs citing Systems Thinking 36 66 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% 0.12% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 37 103
10th Percentile £333 £409 £422
25th Percentile £475 £431 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.26% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £567 £638 £679
90th Percentile £675 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £435 £525
% change year-on-year +9.20% -17.14% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 2
10th Percentile £41.78 - £56.76
25th Percentile £47.06 £62.50 £58.13
Median hourly rate £53.25 £67.50 £60.42
Median % change year-on-year -21.12% +11.72% +29.94%
75th Percentile £56.49 £68.75 £62.71
90th Percentile - £70.00 £64.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.49 £70.00 £55.84
% change year-on-year -19.30% +25.36% +43.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Systems 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%

Systems Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Thinking in the UK

Systems Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Thinking in the UK

Systems Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Systems Thinking in the UK

Systems Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Thinking in the UK

Systems Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Thinking in the UK

Systems Thinking
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems 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 +115 34 £505 -12.17% 32
London +97 20 £505 -12.17% 6
UK excluding London +52 15 £475 +9.20% 24
Work from Home +118 7 £500 -13.04% 13
North of England +37 7 £488 -14.29% 9
North West +20 5 £475 -22.45% 9
South West +21 3 £504 -8.36% 5
Scotland +28 2 £455 +8.98% 3
South East +27 2 £663 +26.19% 7
Yorkshire +19 1 £563 +7.14%
Midlands +12 1 £300 -
North East - 1 - -

Systems 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 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.78%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) Figma
2 2 (5.56%) AWS
2 2 (5.56%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
3 1 (2.78%) GitHub
3 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) DynamoDB
1 2 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.78%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 10 (27.78%) Finance
2 7 (19.44%) Public Sector
3 5 (13.89%) Banking
4 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 4 (11.11%) Retail
4 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (8.33%) Local Government
5 3 (8.33%) Military
5 3 (8.33%) Retail Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Marketing
6 2 (5.56%) Police
7 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Public Speaking
7 1 (2.78%) Social Housing
7 1 (2.78%) Tech for Good
7 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (16.67%) Analyst
1 6 (16.67%) Architect
1 6 (16.67%) Business Analyst
1 6 (16.67%) Designer
2 5 (13.89%) Project Manager
3 4 (11.11%) Business Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Content Designer
3 4 (11.11%) Senior
3 4 (11.11%) Transformation Manager
3 4 (11.11%) Transformation Project Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Digital Product Owner
4 3 (8.33%) Product Owner
4 3 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Product Owner
5 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Digital Architect
6 1 (2.78%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) .NET
1 2 (5.56%) AWS CDK
1 2 (5.56%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (2.78%) Node.js
2 1 (2.78%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.78%) Playwright
2 1 (2.78%) REST
2 1 (2.78%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.56%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.78%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Housing Association
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Android
1 2 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) Business Analysis
2 9 (25.00%) Agile
3 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (16.67%) Business Case
4 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (16.67%) Customer Experience
4 6 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 6 (16.67%) Project Management
4 6 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 5 (13.89%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 5 (13.89%) Risk Management
6 4 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (11.11%) Innovative Thinking
6 4 (11.11%) Lean Thinking
6 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 4 (11.11%) Project Delivery
6 4 (11.11%) Risk Register
6 4 (11.11%) Service Design
6 4 (11.11%) SOLID
6 4 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (2.78%) Python
2 1 (2.78%) SQL
2 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.78%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Sparx
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.78%) Civica
3 1 (2.78%) Google
3 1 (2.78%) NEC