Creative Thinking Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Creative Thinking
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Creative Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.42% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

Creative 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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 825 454 695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 86.12% 92.65% 85.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 287 434
10th Percentile £356 £280 £300
25th Percentile £420 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -7.62%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £579
90th Percentile £675 £621 £641
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 27
10th Percentile £14.25 £31.53 £11.75
25th Percentile £17.36 £31.62 £12.15
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.11 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +169.19% -38.50%
75th Percentile £43.96 £66.51 £13.87
90th Percentile £74.00 £85.74 £19.15
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £13.02
% change year-on-year +8.40% +70.11% -31.50%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Creative Thinking job vacancy trend in Leeds

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Creative Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Figma
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Miro
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Designer
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Service Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Behavioural Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) Human-Centred Design
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Service Design
2 1 (25.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) User Research
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform