Thought Leadership Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Thought Leadership
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Thought Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 52 64
Rank change year-on-year -21 +12 +38
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 3 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.40% 1.03% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 1.16% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £400
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +68.75% -33.39%
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £675 £400
% change year-on-year -25.93% +68.75% -33.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 673 432 784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.79% 89.07% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 268 507
10th Percentile £313 £268 £281
25th Percentile £413 £396 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £660 £682 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.63% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 12
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £26.25 £11.75
Median hourly rate £15.25 £37.50 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -59.33% +199.28% -78.49%
75th Percentile £40.06 £41.50 £15.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £100.93 £21.30
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year -42.49% +118.73% -57.21%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Thought Leadership job vacancy trend in Leeds

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Thought Leadership
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 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) GCP Architect
3 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Istio
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google