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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 93 107
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 +17
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 2 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.16% 0.19% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.23% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £540 £373 £560
25th Percentile £554 £406 £571
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £475 £590
Median % change year-on-year +24.21% -19.49% +9.56%
75th Percentile £639 £544 £595
90th Percentile £661 £578 £598
England median daily rate £537 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.61% -4.17% -6.25%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,132 1,278 1,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.13% 82.45% 87.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 481 916
10th Percentile £200 £193 £227
25th Percentile £375 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +2.30%
75th Percentile £579 £550 £600
90th Percentile £675 £638 £711
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 429 347
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.54 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.57 £40.00 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -21.09% +101.92% -3.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.10 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +54.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Strategic Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Strategic Thinking

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 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in the East of England

Strategic Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Strategic Thinking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Strategic Thinking

Strategic Thinking
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire - 2 £590 - 18
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Emotional Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Lean Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ITGC
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle