Strategic Thinking Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Strategic Thinking
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Liverpool requiring Strategic Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
24 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 2.61% - 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% - 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median daily rate £525 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 251 127 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 82.03% 84.11% 75.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 75 59
10th Percentile £144 £191 £155
25th Percentile £295 £400 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £475 £388
Median % change year-on-year -7.16% +22.58% -22.50%
75th Percentile £575 £629 £494
90th Percentile £677 £687 £600
Merseyside median daily rate £438 £445 £420
% change year-on-year -1.69% +5.95% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 7
10th Percentile £14.93 - £17.47
25th Percentile £24.72 £12.21 £20.17
Median hourly rate £42.50 £17.30 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year +145.66% -24.37% +14.38%
75th Percentile £43.96 £17.44 £36.13
90th Percentile - - £37.75
Merseyside median hourly rate £25.38 £17.30 £27.69
% change year-on-year +46.71% -37.52% +38.44%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Strategic Thinking job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Strategic Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Strategic Thinking

Strategic Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Lead
2 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) Security Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Taxonomies
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Budget Management
1 5 (62.50%) Change Management
1 5 (62.50%) Collaborative Working
1 5 (62.50%) ERP
1 5 (62.50%) Project Management
1 5 (62.50%) Resource Management
1 5 (62.50%) Risk Management
1 5 (62.50%) Service Delivery
1 5 (62.50%) Target Operating Model
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
2 3 (37.50%) Security Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
27 Strategic Thinking jobs in the North West