Creative Thinking Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Creative Thinking
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Creative Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 113 125
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 +41
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 7 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.37% 0.21% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.23% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £371 - £209
25th Percentile £384 £281 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £288 £385
Median % change year-on-year +42.61% -25.32% -42.96%
75th Percentile £467 £294 £475
90th Percentile £498 - £528
Central London median daily rate £410 £531 £385
% change year-on-year -22.82% +37.99% -42.96%

All Process & 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 1,673 1,734 2,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.27% 91.99% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,181 1,060 1,559
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -3.36%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £790 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £569
% change year-on-year -6.09% +1.05% -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 12
10th Percentile £20.02 £13.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.00 £18.45
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +23.81% -25.00%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £47.63
90th Percentile £49.36 £112.00 £71.40
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -17.60%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Creative Thinking job vacancy trend in the City of London

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Creative Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Creative Thinking

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 23 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Thinking in the City of London

Creative Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Creative Thinking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Matillion
1 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Business Analyst
3 3 (42.86%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Gen AI Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Gen AI Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Telephony Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Acceptance Criteria
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (42.86%) User Stories
3 3 (42.86%) Validation
3 3 (42.86%) Wireframes
4 2 (28.57%) Innovative Thinking
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) AI
5 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) ETL
5 1 (14.29%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Functional Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
5 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce