Creative Thinking Contracts in Central London

Creative Thinking
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Creative Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Creative Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 123 157
Rank change year-on-year +4 +34 +13
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 10 10 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.50% 0.41% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.45% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 8
10th Percentile £366 £147 £521
25th Percentile £430 £171 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £258 £713
Median % change year-on-year +106.31% -63.86% +37.81%
75th Percentile £574 £453 £800
90th Percentile £779 £661 £950
London median daily rate £538 £485 £550
% change year-on-year +10.82% -11.82% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in Central London

Creative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Creative Thinking in Central London

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Thinking in Central London

Creative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Creative Thinking in Central London

Creative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +7 9 £525 +103.88% 6
Creative Thinking
London

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (10.00%) Figma
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Postman
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Designer
2 2 (20.00%) Financial Services Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Manager
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Visual Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Pandas
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
1 1 (10.00%) pytest
1 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (10.00%) Biopharmaceutical
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (10.00%) NHS
1 1 (10.00%) Online Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Line Management
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Storytelling
3 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Cegedim Rx
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Informatica
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft