Creative Thinking Contracts in London

Creative Thinking
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Creative Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Creative 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 303 319 390
Rank change year-on-year +16 +71 +54
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 50 72 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.40% 0.40% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.46% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 38 67
10th Percentile £368 £252 £378
25th Percentile £459 £353 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £485 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.82% -11.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £603 £585 £644
90th Percentile £770 £688 £850
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - - £35.38
25th Percentile - £18.25 £37.06
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.50 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -60.41% +22.36%
75th Percentile - £20.75 £58.63
90th Percentile - £46.55 £66.95
England median hourly rate £32.05 £19.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +64.36% -61.00% +195.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in London

Creative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in London.

Daily rate trend for Creative Thinking in London

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Creative Thinking in London

Creative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in London.

Hourly rate trend for Creative Thinking in London

Creative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Thinking within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +4 10 £531 +106.31% 13
East London +16 3 £600 +21.21% 2
Creative Thinking
England

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (6.00%) CMS
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (10.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (6.00%) Acrobat
5 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (2.00%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (2.00%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (2.00%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (2.00%) Camtasia
6 1 (2.00%) CINEMA 4D
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
6 1 (2.00%) Photoshop
6 1 (2.00%) SketchUp
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (12.00%) Azure
2 6 (12.00%) Figma
3 4 (8.00%) AWS
3 4 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (4.00%) Power Automate
4 2 (4.00%) Serverless
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub
5 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.00%) IBM Watson
5 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.00%) SaaS
5 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) Power BI
2 3 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (4.00%) Tableau
4 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.00%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.00%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.00%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (2.00%) Spotfire
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Git
2 4 (8.00%) Postman
3 2 (4.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.00%) GitLab
4 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.00%) MLflow
4 1 (2.00%) Selenium
General
1 27 (54.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (36.00%) Finance
3 13 (26.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.00%) Marketing
5 5 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.00%) Banking
6 3 (6.00%) Financial Institution
6 3 (6.00%) Legal
6 3 (6.00%) Local Government
6 3 (6.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (4.00%) Brand Awareness
7 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.00%) Advertising
8 1 (2.00%) Multimedia
8 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Designer
2 7 (14.00%) Project Manager
3 6 (12.00%) Senior
4 5 (10.00%) Lead
5 4 (8.00%) Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Visual Designer
6 3 (6.00%) Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) UX Designer
7 2 (4.00%) Administrator
7 2 (4.00%) CRM Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Financial Services Project Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Product Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Social Media Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) .NET
1 2 (4.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (4.00%) Entity Framework
1 2 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (2.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.00%) Dapper ORM
2 1 (2.00%) EDI
2 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.00%) Pandas
2 1 (2.00%) PySpark
2 1 (2.00%) pytest
2 1 (2.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.00%) RESTful
2 1 (2.00%) Spring
2 1 (2.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.00%) WinForms
2 1 (2.00%) WS-I
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.00%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.00%) Hedge funds
3 3 (6.00%) Social Media
4 2 (4.00%) e-Learning
4 2 (4.00%) Graphic Design
4 2 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.00%) Learning Management System
4 2 (4.00%) Life Science
4 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.00%) Animation
5 1 (2.00%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.00%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.00%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (44.00%) Agile
3 9 (18.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 8 (16.00%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (16.00%) Project Management
4 8 (16.00%) Scrum
4 8 (16.00%) Storytelling
5 7 (14.00%) Analytics
5 7 (14.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (14.00%) Prototyping
6 6 (12.00%) Customer Experience
6 6 (12.00%) Decision-Making
6 6 (12.00%) Roadmaps
7 5 (10.00%) DevOps
7 5 (10.00%) Infographics
7 5 (10.00%) Interaction Design
7 5 (10.00%) Machine Learning
7 5 (10.00%) Microservices
7 5 (10.00%) Software Engineering
8 4 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.00%) Python
2 5 (10.00%) C#
2 5 (10.00%) Java
3 3 (6.00%) C
3 3 (6.00%) C++
3 3 (6.00%) SQL
4 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.00%) R
5 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.00%) VB
5 1 (2.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (10.00%) QA
3 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.00%) GDPR
4 1 (2.00%) IFRS
4 1 (2.00%) IFRS 17
4 1 (2.00%) PMO
4 1 (2.00%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) Adobe
3 2 (4.00%) Databricks
3 2 (4.00%) Facebook
3 2 (4.00%) Instagram
3 2 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.00%) Cegedim Rx
4 1 (2.00%) Foundry
4 1 (2.00%) IBM
4 1 (2.00%) Informatica
4 1 (2.00%) Palantir
4 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow