Strategic Thinking Contracts in the East of England

Strategic Thinking
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Strategic Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 111 115
Rank change year-on-year +33 +4 +26
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 4 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.43% 0.052% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.061% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £584 - £486
25th Percentile £665 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - £544
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.35%
75th Percentile - - £577
90th Percentile - - £591
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Strategic 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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in the East of England

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in the East of England

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in the East of England

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Thinking in the East of England

Strategic Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Thinking within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hertfordshire +29 2 £530 - 23
Bedfordshire - 2 £800 - 2
Strategic Thinking
England

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (25.00%) OCI
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Workday Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Data Management
3 2 (50.00%) Data Stewardship
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) IT Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
3 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Master Data Management
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Management
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) ITGC
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Workday
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle