Thought Leadership Contract Job Trends in Central London

Thought Leadership
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Thought Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 120 143
Rank change year-on-year +5 +23 +34
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 13 7 10
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.67% 0.30% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.33% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 5
10th Percentile £418 £444 £598
25th Percentile £467 £472 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £533 £647
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -17.70% -4.15%
75th Percentile £730 £700 £725
90th Percentile £782 £744 £755
London median daily rate £575 £525 £675
% change year-on-year +9.52% -22.22% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,802 2,139 2,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.08% 91.80% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,255 1,339 1,856
10th Percentile £334 £374 £363
25th Percentile £423 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £669 £681 £689
90th Percentile £750 £775 £823
London median daily rate £538 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% -3.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 25 19
10th Percentile £17.97 £19.30 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.50 £31.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%
75th Percentile £35.88 £78.75 £59.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £127.30 £69.75
London median hourly rate £29.00 £37.50 £36.33
% change year-on-year -22.67% +3.21% -3.11%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Thought Leadership job vacancy trend in Central London

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Thought Leadership

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership in Central London over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Thought Leadership in Central London

Thought Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Thought Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Thought Leadership

Thought Leadership
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 Thought Leadership within the Central London region over the 6 months to 18 November 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 +2 12 £540 -13.60% 145
West End of London +7 1 £773 +59.94%
City of Westminster +2 1 £773 +43.06%
Thought Leadership
London

Thought Leadership
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) CMS
2 1 (7.69%) Appian
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Firebase
1 2 (15.38%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) Apigee
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.69%) Collibra
2 1 (7.69%) Google Analytics
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQLite
2 1 (7.69%) Metadata
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) CocoaPods
2 2 (15.38%) Crashlytics
2 2 (15.38%) fastlane
2 2 (15.38%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) Xcode
3 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) Robot Framework
3 1 (7.69%) Selenium
3 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Marketing
2 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Advertising
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Brand Awareness
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Public Speaking
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) iOS Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior iOS Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Communications Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Content Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Creative Director
3 1 (7.69%) Data Scientist
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Managing Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Product Owner
3 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) AVFoundation
1 2 (15.38%) Core Animation
1 2 (15.38%) Core Data
1 2 (15.38%) JSON
1 2 (15.38%) RxSwift
1 2 (15.38%) UIKit
1 2 (15.38%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) Jinja
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) NETCONF
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
2 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) scikit-learn
2 1 (7.69%) Swagger
2 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
2 1 (7.69%) XML Schema
2 1 (7.69%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Animation
1 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
1 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Blog
2 1 (7.69%) Cyberattack
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Digital Media
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
1 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
1 5 (38.46%) Roadmaps
2 4 (30.77%) Analytics
2 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Application Security
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (23.08%) Data Security
3 3 (23.08%) Product Management
3 3 (23.08%) Storytelling
3 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (23.08%) Use Case
4 2 (15.38%) Code Coverage
4 2 (15.38%) CRM
4 2 (15.38%) MVC
4 2 (15.38%) OO
4 2 (15.38%) OOP
4 2 (15.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Objective-C
2 2 (15.38%) Swift
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.69%) CISM
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Apple
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.69%) Veracode