Strategic Thinking Contracts in Hampshire

Strategic Thinking
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 98 92
Rank change year-on-year +31 -6 +34
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.66% 0.12% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.14% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £396 - -
25th Percentile £525 £550 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £581
90th Percentile £645 - £593
South East median daily rate £619 £550 £608
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.47% +21.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 677 1,412 1,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 88.85% 81.62% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 774 718
10th Percentile £315 £388 £240
25th Percentile £450 £463 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £590 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +12.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £613
90th Percentile £675 £741 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £505
% change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 168 98
10th Percentile £21.11 £13.05 £15.94
25th Percentile £37.03 £25.84 £20.68
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +4.27% +120.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.00 £65.66
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.25 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -47.05% -9.52% +138.80%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in Hampshire

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in Hampshire

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Hampshire over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in Hampshire

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Thinking in Hampshire

Strategic Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Portsmouth - 2 £545 - 49
Hook - 1 £320 -
Basingstoke - 1 £650 - 39
Strategic Thinking
South East

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Programme Director
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) DataOps
3 1 (20.00%) Dependency Management
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Master Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Product Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
3 1 (20.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 22301
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft