Thought Leadership Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Thought Leadership
South East > Hampshire

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 79 97
Rank change year-on-year +7 +18 +21
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 9 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.83% 0.089% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.11% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 5
10th Percentile £470 - -
25th Percentile £503 £413 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £425 £530
Median % change year-on-year +26.71% -19.81% +17.78%
75th Percentile £829 £438 £540
90th Percentile £963 - £629
South East median daily rate £539 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +7.70% -7.41% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
75th Percentile £27.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £25.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 933 902 1,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.39% 80.32% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 595 649
10th Percentile £311 £360 £280
25th Percentile £443 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +2.42% +2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £642 £638
90th Percentile £653 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.19% -1.70% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 60 90
10th Percentile £16.17 £25.85 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £20.71 £66.68 £51.96
Median % change year-on-year -68.94% +28.32% +15.47%
75th Percentile £26.33 £75.00 £61.88
90th Percentile £50.00 - £70.59
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +40.00%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Thought Leadership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Thought Leadership job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Thought Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Thought Leadership

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership in Hampshire over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Thought Leadership in Hampshire

Thought Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Thought Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Thought Leadership

Thought Leadership
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 Thought Leadership within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Fleet - 4 £515 - 1
Southampton - 3 £900 - 2
Portsmouth - 1 £1,000 -
Fareham - 1 - -
Thought Leadership
South East

Thought Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) SaaS
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) Publishing
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Content Marketing Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Marketing Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Head of Analytics
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (22.22%) Blog
2 2 (22.22%) Educational Technology
2 2 (22.22%) Podcast
2 2 (22.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Mac OS
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Analytics
2 6 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making
3 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (44.44%) Application Packaging
4 4 (44.44%) Business Strategy
4 4 (44.44%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (44.44%) IT Strategy
4 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
4 4 (44.44%) User Experience
5 3 (33.33%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
5 3 (33.33%) Data Strategy
5 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (33.33%) ITIL
5 3 (33.33%) Mathematics
5 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Bash
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) SCCM
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Citrix
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
1 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) YouTube