Creative Thinking Contracts in the City of London

Creative Thinking
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 116 157
Rank change year-on-year +6 +41 +11
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 9 10 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.51% 0.46% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.50% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 8
10th Percentile £356 £147 £521
25th Percentile £400 £171 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £258 £713
Median % change year-on-year +103.88% -63.86% +42.50%
75th Percentile £556 £453 £800
90th Percentile £619 £661 £950
Central London median daily rate £531 £258 £713
% change year-on-year +106.31% -63.86% +37.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the City of London

Creative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Creative Thinking in the City of London

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Thinking in the City of London

Creative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Creative Thinking in the City of London

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Figma
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (11.11%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Postman
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing
4 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Financial Services Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Manager
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Visual Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Pandas
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
1 1 (11.11%) pytest
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (11.11%) Biopharmaceutical
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
1 1 (11.11%) Online Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 2 (22.22%) Innovative Thinking
3 2 (22.22%) Line Management
3 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Storytelling
3 2 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (11.11%) Business Case
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) LLM
4 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Cegedim Rx
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica