Thought Leadership Contracts in England

Thought Leadership
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Thought Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 428 409
Rank change year-on-year +57 -19 -11
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 103 109 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.29% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.34% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 64 139
10th Percentile £435 £322 £371
25th Percentile £500 £459 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £577 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -3.92% -7.83%
75th Percentile £700 £731 £725
90th Percentile £780 £784 £875
UK median daily rate £561 £570 £595
% change year-on-year -1.58% -4.20% -8.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - £40.15 £72.00
25th Percentile - £45.25 £74.25
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.69% +138.17%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £84.00
90th Percentile - £72.10 £87.60
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -32.69% +138.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Thought Leadership 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 22,235 32,086 45,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.15% 86.56% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,554 21,040 31,727
10th Percentile £309 £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% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 931 2,256 1,594
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.96 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.33 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year -19.99% -1.19% +51.01%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Thought Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in England

Thought Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership in England.

Daily rate trend for Thought Leadership in England

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Thought Leadership in England

Thought Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership in England.

Hourly rate trend for Thought Leadership in England

Thought Leadership
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 Thought Leadership within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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 +39 56 £650 +13.54% 802
South West +53 16 £538 +13.16% 58
South East +45 12 £550 +11.11% 230
North of England +11 8 £613 +6.24% 158
West Midlands +14 5 £500 -16.67% 57
Midlands +4 5 £500 -16.67% 92
Yorkshire +12 4 £606 - 49
North West +8 4 £613 +6.24% 92
East of England +37 3 £465 - 56
Thought Leadership
UK

Thought Leadership
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 6 (5.83%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.85%) Apache
3 3 (2.91%) nginx
4 1 (0.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.97%) Appian
4 1 (0.97%) CMS
4 1 (0.97%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.97%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.97%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 5 (4.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.91%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.97%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.71%) AWS
1 10 (9.71%) PaaS
1 10 (9.71%) SaaS
2 8 (7.77%) Azure
3 5 (4.85%) GCP
3 5 (4.85%) Matillion
4 3 (2.91%) OpenShift
4 3 (2.91%) Power Platform
4 3 (2.91%) Snowflake
4 3 (2.91%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.94%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 2 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.94%) Route 53
5 2 (1.94%) Serverless
6 1 (0.97%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (0.97%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.74%) PBX
1 9 (8.74%) VoIP
2 4 (3.88%) DNS
3 3 (2.91%) Firewall
4 2 (1.94%) BIG-IP
4 2 (1.94%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.94%) DHCP
4 2 (1.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (1.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (1.94%) Network Security
4 2 (1.94%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.94%) Wireless
4 2 (1.94%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.97%) 4G
5 1 (0.97%) 5G
5 1 (0.97%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.97%) VPN
5 1 (0.97%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.80%) Big Data
1 7 (6.80%) Hadoop
2 5 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.88%) Tableau
4 3 (2.91%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.94%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.94%) Impala
5 2 (1.94%) Looker
5 2 (1.94%) Metadata
5 2 (1.94%) Power BI
5 2 (1.94%) Spotfire
6 1 (0.97%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.97%) HBase
6 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.97%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.97%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (4.85%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (1.94%) Git
4 1 (0.97%) Appium
4 1 (0.97%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.97%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.97%) ERwin
4 1 (0.97%) JIRA
4 1 (0.97%) Selenium
4 1 (0.97%) TestNG
General
1 30 (29.13%) Finance
2 27 (26.21%) Social Skills
3 18 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (14.56%) Telecoms
5 12 (11.65%) Marketing
6 10 (9.71%) Retail
7 7 (6.80%) Banking
8 6 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.88%) Legal
9 4 (3.88%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.88%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.91%) Back Office
11 2 (1.94%) Advertising
11 2 (1.94%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.97%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.97%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.97%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (34.95%) Architect
2 12 (11.65%) Senior
3 11 (10.68%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (5.83%) Applications Architect
4 6 (5.83%) Consultant
5 5 (4.85%) Data Engineer
5 5 (4.85%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (4.85%) Product Manager
6 4 (3.88%) Analyst
6 4 (3.88%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (2.91%) Business Analyst
7 3 (2.91%) Data Architect
7 3 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.91%) Lead
7 3 (2.91%) Marketing Manager
7 3 (2.91%) Network Engineer
7 3 (2.91%) Project Manager
7 3 (2.91%) SAP Architect
7 3 (2.91%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (2.91%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.88%) CSS
1 4 (3.88%) HTML
2 3 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (2.91%) YAML
3 2 (1.94%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (1.94%) SAPUI5
3 2 (1.94%) XML
4 1 (0.97%) ATL
4 1 (0.97%) HTML5
4 1 (0.97%) JSON
4 1 (0.97%) JSR 170
4 1 (0.97%) Middleware
4 1 (0.97%) Node.js
4 1 (0.97%) OSGi
4 1 (0.97%) React
4 1 (0.97%) REST
4 1 (0.97%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.97%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.97%) SOAP
4 1 (0.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.77%) Blackberry
1 8 (7.77%) Video Conferencing
2 7 (6.80%) IoT
3 6 (5.83%) Blockchain
3 6 (5.83%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.83%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.85%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.91%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.91%) Life Science
5 3 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.91%) Social Media
6 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.94%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.94%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.94%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.88%) Linux
2 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (34.95%) Roadmaps
2 27 (26.21%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (23.30%) Agile
3 24 (23.30%) Analytics
4 19 (18.45%) Migration
5 17 (16.50%) Project Management
6 16 (15.53%) Decision-Making
6 16 (15.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (13.59%) Cost Reduction
7 14 (13.59%) Mentoring
8 12 (11.65%) DevOps
8 12 (11.65%) Enterprise Architecture
9 11 (10.68%) Impact Assessments
9 11 (10.68%) Machine Learning
9 11 (10.68%) Product Roadmap
9 11 (10.68%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (9.71%) Customer Experience
10 10 (9.71%) Customer Requirements
10 10 (9.71%) Microservices
10 10 (9.71%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.83%) Java
1 6 (5.83%) JavaScript
2 5 (4.85%) SQL
3 4 (3.88%) Python
4 2 (1.94%) Scala
5 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.97%) Swift
Qualifications
1 26 (25.24%) Security Cleared
2 19 (18.45%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.56%) DV Cleared
4 12 (11.65%) Degree
5 8 (7.77%) CCNP
5 8 (7.77%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (7.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.94%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.94%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.94%) PMP
7 2 (1.94%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.97%) CISSP
8 1 (0.97%) IIBA
8 1 (0.97%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.91%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.91%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.94%) GDPR
2 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.94%) MiFID
2 2 (1.94%) NIST
2 2 (1.94%) PSD2
2 2 (1.94%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) SLA
3 1 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.97%) NCSC
3 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.97%) PMO
3 1 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (8.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.88%) Docker
3 1 (0.97%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.88%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.88%) Terraform
2 3 (2.91%) Ansible
2 3 (2.91%) Grafana
2 3 (2.91%) HAProxy
2 3 (2.91%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.94%) OPNET
Vendors
1 12 (11.65%) Cisco
2 11 (10.68%) F5
2 11 (10.68%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.68%) Palo Alto
3 10 (9.71%) Nokia
4 9 (8.74%) Ericsson
4 9 (8.74%) Juniper
4 9 (8.74%) VMware
5 8 (7.77%) Avaya
5 8 (7.77%) Ribbon
5 8 (7.77%) SAP
6 5 (4.85%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.85%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.88%) Adobe
7 4 (3.88%) Google
8 3 (2.91%) Informatica
8 3 (2.91%) TOWER Software
9 2 (1.94%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.94%) Fujitsu
9 2 (1.94%) Oracle