Systems Thinking Contracts in England

Systems Thinking
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Systems Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Systems 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 471 506 606
Rank change year-on-year +35 +100 +67
Contract jobs citing Systems Thinking 14 36 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.057% 0.097% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.11% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 24 26
10th Percentile £336 £330 £419
25th Percentile £431 £475 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £505 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -12.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £666
90th Percentile £730 £675 £719
UK median daily rate £505 £505 £575
% change year-on-year +0.10% -12.26% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £41.78 £43.00
25th Percentile - £47.06 £53.13
Median hourly rate - £53.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -23.94% +25.36%
75th Percentile - £56.49 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £53.25 £67.50
% change year-on-year - -21.12% +11.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Systems 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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £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 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Systems Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Thinking in England

Systems Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Thinking in England

Systems Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Systems Thinking in England

Systems Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Thinking in England

Systems Thinking
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 Systems Thinking within the 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
London +27 10 £510 +0.99% 43
North of England +15 3 £725 +48.72% 7
North West +14 2 £750 +57.89% 5
Yorkshire +8 1 £700 +24.44% 1
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Systems Thinking
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.14%) Azure API Management
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) Miro
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Banking
5 2 (14.29%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 2 (14.29%) Retail
5 2 (14.29%) Retail Banking
6 1 (7.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Designer
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
2 4 (28.57%) Service Designer
3 3 (21.43%) Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Business Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Designer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Service Designer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Digital Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Digital Transformation
5 1 (7.14%) Digital Transformation Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Product Designer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Digital Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Service Designer
5 1 (7.14%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) JSON
2 2 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.14%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Centre
1 3 (21.43%) Replication
2 2 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) HPUX
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Solaris
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
1 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) ITSM
3 4 (28.57%) Service Design
3 4 (28.57%) Service Management
4 3 (21.43%) Analytical Thinking
4 3 (21.43%) Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
4 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (21.43%) High Availability
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) User Experience
4 3 (21.43%) UX Design
5 2 (14.29%) GitOps
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (14.29%) Interaction Design
5 2 (14.29%) Observability
5 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) Bicep
2 2 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) CBAP
2 1 (7.14%) CSPO
2 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Grafana
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) IBM
2 3 (21.43%) Sun
3 2 (14.29%) Unisys
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow