Innovative Thinking Contracts in the City of London

Innovative Thinking
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Innovative Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Innovative Thinking over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 171 187
Rank change year-on-year +44 +16 -41
Contract jobs citing Innovative Thinking 2 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.090% 0.027% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.099% 0.030% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £714 - £741
25th Percentile £716 £525 £755
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £550 £783
Median % change year-on-year +34.09% -29.71% +65.61%
75th Percentile £766 £575 £795
90th Percentile £771 - £805
Central London median daily rate £738 £500 £783
% change year-on-year +47.50% -36.10% +65.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Innovative Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,011 3,350 3,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.50% 91.88% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 2,249 2,943
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.93 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £43.25 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.20% +5.49% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the City of London

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Innovative Thinking in the City of London

Innovative 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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Local Government
1 1 (50.00%) Police
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Business Architect
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) BPR
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Lean Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet