Creative Thinking Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

Creative Thinking
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring Creative Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 1.90% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £523 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £500 £573
% change year-on-year - -12.66% +14.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Basingstoke

Creative Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 260 169 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 82.54% 87.11% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 145 57
10th Percentile £463 £407 £208
25th Percentile £500 £476 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £718 £675
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 14
10th Percentile £12.18 £28.15 £15.50
25th Percentile - £29.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £17.00 £31.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.03% +5.00% +69.16%
75th Percentile - £34.13 £45.00
90th Percentile £17.37 £35.25 £48.75
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -40.83% -36.36% +25.74%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Creative Thinking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Creative Thinking job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Creative Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Creative Thinking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
General
1 5 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Strategy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Change Management
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
1 5 (83.33%) ITSM
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) AI
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Data Science
2 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) SCCM
1 5 (83.33%) SCOM
1 5 (83.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) VMware