Systems Thinking Contract Job Trends in Central London

Systems Thinking
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Systems Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 130 144
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 +57
Contract jobs citing Systems Thinking 7 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.35% 0.17% 0.073%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.19% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £434 - £556
25th Percentile £484 - £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £588
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.96%
75th Percentile £538 - £616
90th Percentile - - £629
London median daily rate £525 £472 £525
% change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £41.95 - -
25th Percentile £45.44 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £42.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% - -
75th Percentile £55.25 £43.75 -
90th Percentile £56.15 - -
London median hourly rate £47.50 £42.50 -
% change year-on-year +11.76% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Systems 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 1,821 2,153 2,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.69% 92.09% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,271 1,350 1,738
10th Percentile £343 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £467 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
London median daily rate £526 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.45% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 27 16
10th Percentile £19.98 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.54 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.19% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £35.88 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £50.63 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £31.00 £36.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -13.90% +5.88% -11.39%

Systems Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Systems Thinking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Systems Thinking job vacancy trend in Central London

Systems Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Systems Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Systems Thinking

Systems Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Systems Thinking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Systems Thinking

Systems 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 Systems Thinking within the Central London region over the 6 months to 20 December 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 -4 7 £525 - 4
Systems Thinking
London

Systems Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) SaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Figma
3 1 (14.29%) ChatGPT
3 1 (14.29%) Google Gemini
3 1 (14.29%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Advertising
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) French Language
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Service Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Service Designer
3 1 (14.29%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) AI Agents
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) AI
1 3 (42.86%) Storytelling
2 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (28.57%) Data Science
2 2 (28.57%) Design Thinking
2 2 (28.57%) Issue Tracking
2 2 (28.57%) LLM
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 2 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (28.57%) Operations Management
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Project Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (28.57%) Service Design
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) User Experience
2 2 (28.57%) User Research
2 2 (28.57%) UX Design
2 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
2 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Go
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Argo
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce