Thought Leadership Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Thought Leadership
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Thought Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 53 56
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 -
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 7 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.78% 0.18% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.20% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile £442 - £499
25th Percentile £450 £763 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £775 £625
Median % change year-on-year -39.35% +24.00% -
75th Percentile £489 £788 £775
90th Percentile £567 - -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 769 490 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.54% 87.03% 82.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 296 427
10th Percentile £188 £240 £213
25th Percentile £350 £324 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £564
90th Percentile £625 £631 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 23 45
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.48 £11.90
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.95 £22.50 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% +9.70% +21.87%
75th Percentile £24.49 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £54.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Thought Leadership job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Thought Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Thought Leadership

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Thought Leadership in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Thought Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Thought Leadership

Thought Leadership
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Northamptonshire - 7 £470 - 6
Thought Leadership
England

Thought Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Google Workspace
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Director
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 7 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 7 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 7 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 7 (100.00%) User Experience
1 7 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 4 (57.14%) Budgeting
2 4 (57.14%) Business Transformation
2 4 (57.14%) Programme Delivery
2 4 (57.14%) Strategic Roadmap
2 4 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Application Packaging
3 3 (42.86%) Business Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (42.86%) IT Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Bash
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) GDPR
1 7 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Citrix
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Google