Innovative Thinking Contracts in the West Midlands

Innovative Thinking
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 131 166
Rank change year-on-year +20 +35 -
Contract jobs citing Innovative Thinking 5 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.26% 0.21% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.24% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £266 - £561
25th Percentile £272 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £588
75th Percentile £331 - £616
90th Percentile £343 - £629
England median daily rate £500 £525 £588
% change year-on-year -4.76% -10.64% +39.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,629 2,088 3,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.10% 88.66% 90.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,082 1,429 2,357
10th Percentile £275 £263 £273
25th Percentile £364 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +14.71%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 49 67
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.40 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.94
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% +8.82% +1.07%
75th Percentile £40.25 £27.13 £19.68
90th Percentile £57.75 £48.75 £21.11
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Innovative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the West Midlands

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Innovative Thinking in the West Midlands

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Innovative Thinking in the West Midlands

Innovative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
Birmingham +17 2 £300 - 8
Staffordshire - 1 £275 - 1
Worcestershire - 1 - -
Innovative Thinking
England

Innovative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) Power Query
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (40.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Data Collection
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Interpretation
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Business Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Ariba
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) VMware