Strategic Thinking Contracts in Leeds

Strategic Thinking
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 61 83
Rank change year-on-year +10 +22 +20
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 9 2 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.94% 0.25% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 0.29% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 13
10th Percentile £313 - £476
25th Percentile £356 - £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £550
75th Percentile £619 - £600
90th Percentile £720 - £698
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £84.25 - -
25th Percentile £84.35 - -
Median hourly rate £91.05 - -
75th Percentile £98.08 - -
90th Percentile £98.36 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.05 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in Leeds

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Thinking in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (11.11%) nginx
1 1 (11.11%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
1 4 (44.44%) Lead
2 3 (33.33%) Scala Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Information Assurance Leader
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Scala Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Akka
1 3 (33.33%) Play Framework
2 2 (22.22%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (11.11%) cloud-init
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) CentOS
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making
3 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (33.33%) API Development
5 3 (33.33%) API Integration
5 3 (33.33%) BDD
5 3 (33.33%) Change Management
5 3 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 3 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (33.33%) Functional Programming
5 3 (33.33%) Microservices
5 3 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
5 3 (33.33%) PRINCE2
5 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (33.33%) TDD
5 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
6 2 (22.22%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Scala
2 2 (22.22%) Apex Code
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 1 (11.11%) PMP
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) PMO
2 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (11.11%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kibana
2 1 (11.11%) Consul
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) HAProxy
2 1 (11.11%) Istio
2 1 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) linkerd
2 1 (11.11%) Packer
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
2 1 (11.11%) Rancher
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) Apple
2 1 (11.11%) ESET
2 1 (11.11%) Okta
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk