Creative Thinking Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Creative Thinking
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Creative Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 88 110
Rank change year-on-year -24 +22 -6
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 2 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.11% 0.35% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.38% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £616 £325
25th Percentile £388 £622 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £638 £500
Median % change year-on-year -37.25% +27.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £413 £647 £547
90th Percentile - £649 £564
South East median daily rate £530 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -18.46% +30.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £32.05 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.31% -
South East median hourly rate - £32.05 £16.00
% change year-on-year - +100.31% +5.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,503 1,060 1,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.49% 93.56% 87.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 961 651 847
10th Percentile £306 £325 £243
25th Percentile £401 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £501
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -0.10% -4.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.10% -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 29 110
10th Percentile £31.25 £23.71 £17.45
25th Percentile £72.60 £32.05 £41.31
Median hourly rate £83.58 £61.50 £60.53
Median % change year-on-year +35.91% +1.60% -3.92%
75th Percentile £88.00 £87.05 £71.75
90th Percentile £107.00 £88.87 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -49.70% -4.76%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Creative Thinking job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Creative Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Creative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Thinking within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 14 June 2026. 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
Reading - 2 £400 - 1
Creative Thinking
South East

Creative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Gamification
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Nessus
1 2 (100.00%) OpenVAS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Qualys
1 2 (100.00%) Rapid7