Thought Leadership Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Thought Leadership
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Thought Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.50% - 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% - 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.82%
75th Percentile - - £750
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate - - £575
% change year-on-year - - -6.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Thought Leadership 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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 180 153 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 90.45% 91.62% 86.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 82 79
10th Percentile £354 £300 £197
25th Percentile £406 £343 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -2.70% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £579 £560
90th Percentile £684 £649 £615
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.52% -0.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 18
10th Percentile £23.00 £17.56 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £19.14 £17.72
Median hourly rate £33.75 £23.21 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.44% +16.03% -42.86%
75th Percentile £53.08 £49.20 £74.81
90th Percentile £72.75 £66.25 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Thought Leadership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Thought Leadership job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Thought Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Thought Leadership

Thought Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility