Innovative Thinking Contracts with Work from Home Options

Innovative Thinking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 418 525
Rank change year-on-year +94 +107 -93
Contract jobs citing Innovative Thinking 15 47 92
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.21% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 51
10th Percentile £305 £309 £375
25th Percentile £395 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +64.29%
75th Percentile £566 £581 £638
90th Percentile £714 £713 £740
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +31.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £16.60 £10.70
25th Percentile - £20.50 £11.00
Median hourly rate - £27.00 £12.00
Median % change year-on-year - +125.00% -35.14%
75th Percentile - £33.50 £13.00
90th Percentile - £37.40 £13.30
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £27.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year -27.78% +107.69% -29.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,053 22,182 40,030
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.02% 89.73% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,754 15,684 29,076
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 510 541
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.44 £27.48 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.93 £37.78
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +40.11% +54.18%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%

Innovative Thinking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Innovative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Innovative Thinking trend for jobs with a WFH option

Innovative Thinking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Innovative Thinking.

Innovative Thinking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Innovative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Innovative Thinking over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Innovative Thinking daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Innovative Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Innovative Thinking.

Innovative Thinking hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Innovative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (13.33%) CMS
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) JBoss
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
2 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) dbt
3 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.67%) Google Analytics
3 1 (6.67%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) iPaaS
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
3 1 (6.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) LAN
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (6.67%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) Looker
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Local Government
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Configuration Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Finance Systems Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Financial Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Analytics Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) CSS
1 2 (13.33%) DOM
1 2 (13.33%) Express.js
1 2 (13.33%) HTML
1 2 (13.33%) Node.js
1 2 (13.33%) React
1 2 (13.33%) XML
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (6.67%) J2EE
2 1 (6.67%) jQuery
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) SOAP
2 1 (6.67%) Web Services
2 1 (6.67%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (6.67%) Client/Server
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) N-Tier
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (26.67%) Use Case
3 3 (20.00%) Analytics
3 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (20.00%) Product Management
3 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (13.33%) Creative Thinking
4 2 (13.33%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (13.33%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) Bicep
2 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
1 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Puppet
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Control-M
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe
3 1 (6.67%) Ariba
3 1 (6.67%) BMC
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) IBM
3 1 (6.67%) Monetate
3 1 (6.67%) Optimizely
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) VMware