Systems Thinking Contract Job Trends in England

Systems Thinking
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Systems Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 482 505
Rank change year-on-year 0 +23 +147
Contract jobs citing Systems Thinking 55 14 56
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.048% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.055% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 6 34
10th Percentile £222 £360 £440
25th Percentile £409 £415 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £478 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.78% -16.83% +6.48%
75th Percentile £638 £510 £663
90th Percentile £924 £534 £706
UK median daily rate £525 £453 £581
% change year-on-year +16.02% -22.15% +10.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 12
10th Percentile £40.27 - -
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £42.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -24.77% +32.36%
75th Percentile £56.75 £43.75 -
90th Percentile £60.95 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £42.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +23.53% -24.77% +32.36%

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 27,948 25,588 32,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.76% 88.59% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,756 15,817 22,467
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,828 844 1,393
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.80
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%
75th Percentile £53.81 £64.79 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.66 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

Systems Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Systems Thinking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Systems Thinking job vacancy trend in England

Systems Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Systems Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Systems Thinking

Systems Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Thinking in England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Thinking in England

Systems Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Systems Thinking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Systems Thinking

Systems Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Thinking in England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 20 December 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 +21 31 £525 +11.35% 17
South East -11 9 £225 - 19
South West - 8 £946 - 22
North of England - 5 £469 - 1
Yorkshire - 4 £513 -
North East - 1 £425 - 1
Systems Thinking
UK

Systems Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.27%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) CMS
2 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.82%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.91%) Power Platform
2 5 (9.09%) Figma
2 5 (9.09%) PowerApps
3 4 (7.27%) Azure
3 4 (7.27%) SaaS
4 3 (5.45%) Amazon SageMaker
4 3 (5.45%) AWS
4 3 (5.45%) Google Gemini
4 3 (5.45%) Lucidchart
4 3 (5.45%) Miro
5 2 (3.64%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (3.64%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (3.64%) ChatGPT
5 2 (3.64%) GCP
5 2 (3.64%) GitHub
5 2 (3.64%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (3.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.64%) Serverless
5 2 (3.64%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (1.82%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) Power BI
2 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.64%) Pinecone
2 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.64%) Redis
2 2 (3.64%) Weaviate
3 1 (1.82%) Big Data
3 1 (1.82%) Metadata
3 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (10.91%) JIRA
2 2 (3.64%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (3.64%) MLflow
2 2 (3.64%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.82%) Postman
General
1 22 (40.00%) Finance
2 19 (34.55%) Social Skills
3 11 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.09%) Local Government
6 3 (5.45%) Banking
6 3 (5.45%) Electronics
6 3 (5.45%) Legal
6 3 (5.45%) Military
7 2 (3.64%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.64%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.82%) Advertising
8 1 (1.82%) Complex Adaptive System
8 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.82%) French Language
8 1 (1.82%) Games
Job Titles
1 11 (20.00%) Designer
2 8 (14.55%) Software Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Python Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Python Software Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Consultant
4 6 (10.91%) Senior
5 5 (9.09%) Service Designer
6 4 (7.27%) Accountant
6 4 (7.27%) Financial Accountant
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Accountant
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Systems Accountant
6 4 (7.27%) Systems Accountant
6 4 (7.27%) UX Designer
7 3 (5.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) C++ Software Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Lead
8 2 (3.64%) Solutions Consultant
8 2 (3.64%) System Verification Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.36%) Kafka
2 3 (5.45%) Node.js
3 2 (3.64%) CrewAI
3 2 (3.64%) Faiss
3 2 (3.64%) FastAPI
3 2 (3.64%) LangChain
3 2 (3.64%) pgvector
3 2 (3.64%) PyTorch
3 2 (3.64%) Spring
4 1 (1.82%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.82%) JSON
4 1 (1.82%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.82%) React
4 1 (1.82%) REST
4 1 (1.82%) Swagger
4 1 (1.82%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (1.82%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (1.82%) Unity DI Container
4 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Management Information System
2 5 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.45%) Client/Server
3 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.64%) Replication
5 1 (1.82%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.82%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.82%) NHS
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.18%) Agile
2 17 (30.91%) Data Science
3 14 (25.45%) AI
3 14 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (21.82%) Machine Learning
5 11 (20.00%) Coaching
5 11 (20.00%) Service Design
6 10 (18.18%) Computer Science
6 10 (18.18%) Data Management
6 10 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (18.18%) Storytelling
6 10 (18.18%) User Experience
7 9 (16.36%) Software Engineering
7 9 (16.36%) Workshop Facilitation
8 8 (14.55%) Analytics
8 8 (14.55%) UX Design
9 7 (12.73%) Data Analytics
9 7 (12.73%) Mathematics
9 7 (12.73%) Project Management
9 7 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.45%) Python
2 7 (12.73%) C++
3 3 (5.45%) Go
3 3 (5.45%) SQL
4 2 (3.64%) Bash
4 2 (3.64%) Java
4 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.18%) Degree
3 9 (16.36%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.27%) CCAB
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) MCP
5 1 (1.82%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.45%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.45%) GDPR
2 3 (5.45%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (7.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.91%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.64%) Argo
2 2 (3.64%) Knative
2 2 (3.64%) Rancher
2 2 (3.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (12.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.45%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.64%) Databricks
3 2 (3.64%) Google
3 2 (3.64%) Oracle
3 2 (3.64%) SAP
4 1 (1.82%) Adobe
4 1 (1.82%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.82%) WorldPay