Lean Thinking Contracts in England

Lean Thinking
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Lean Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Lean Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 537 641
Rank change year-on-year +66 +104 +90
Contract jobs citing Lean Thinking 2 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.022% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.025% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £573 £450
25th Percentile - £606 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £688 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +19.57% +4.55%
75th Percentile - £766 £672
90th Percentile - £816 £800
UK median daily rate £438 £688 £575
% change year-on-year -36.36% +19.57% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Lean 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,111 31,883 44,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.21% 86.53% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,456 20,901 31,367
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £674
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 929 2,239 1,579
10th Percentile £14.28 £12.91 £10.83
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.04 £36.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -20.44% -2.14% +54.64%
75th Percentile £63.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.68 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.44% +1.39% +44.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Lean Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Lean Thinking in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lean Thinking in England.

Daily rate trend for Lean Thinking in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lean Thinking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Lean Thinking in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lean Thinking within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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
London +44 2 £550 -20.00% 10
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Local Government
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Code Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ETRM
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft