Creative Thinking Contract Job Trends in London

Creative Thinking
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Creative Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 342 325
Rank change year-on-year +3 -17 +103
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 39 31 80
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.21% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.23% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 48
10th Percentile £364 £244 £305
25th Percentile £430 £404 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -
75th Percentile £638 £770 £652
90th Percentile £680 £808 £754
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £69.00 £49.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +40.82% -30.00% +35.27%

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 13,078 13,523 16,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.37% 90.12% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,615 8,692 12,023
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 165 235
10th Percentile £18.09 £18.04 £18.40
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +11.65% -15.91%
75th Percentile £52.19 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.10 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Creative Thinking job vacancy trend in London

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Thinking in London

Creative Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Creative Thinking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Creative Thinking

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 21 December 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 0 8 £569 -20.18% 3
West London -15 1 - - 1
North London - 1 - -
Creative Thinking
England

Creative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.26%) CMS
1 4 (10.26%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 4 (10.26%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (10.26%) Photoshop
2 3 (7.69%) Adobe After Effects
2 3 (7.69%) InDesign
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (5.13%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (2.56%) Acrobat
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.56%) OmniGraffle
4 1 (2.56%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Workfront
2 1 (2.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.26%) Figma
2 3 (7.69%) Azure
2 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.13%) Akamai
3 2 (5.13%) Azure AI
3 2 (5.13%) Azure AKS
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (5.13%) Copilot Studio
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (5.13%) OneDrive
3 2 (5.13%) Power Automate
3 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.13%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Stack
4 1 (2.56%) BigCommerce
4 1 (2.56%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Firewall
2 2 (5.13%) DHCP
2 2 (5.13%) DNS
2 2 (5.13%) LAN
2 2 (5.13%) NetScaler
2 2 (5.13%) SD-WAN
2 2 (5.13%) VPN
2 2 (5.13%) WAN
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (2.56%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.56%) FTP
3 1 (2.56%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.56%) MQTT
3 1 (2.56%) NX-OS
3 1 (2.56%) RTP
3 1 (2.56%) SSH
3 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.56%) QGIS
1 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) JIRA
2 4 (10.26%) Postman
3 1 (2.56%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.56%) Spinnaker
General
1 20 (51.28%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.21%) Finance
2 11 (28.21%) Marketing
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Banking
3 5 (12.82%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (7.69%) Publishing
5 3 (7.69%) Retail
6 2 (5.13%) Advertising
6 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Legal
7 1 (2.56%) Arabic Language
7 1 (2.56%) Local Government
7 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.56%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Thai Language
7 1 (2.56%) Urdu Language
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Analyst
2 6 (15.38%) Designer
3 4 (10.26%) Architect
3 4 (10.26%) Business Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Business Systems Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Digital Designer
4 3 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Senior
4 3 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Lead
5 2 (5.13%) Marketing Specialist
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Power Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Product Owner
5 2 (5.13%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Visual Designer
6 1 (2.56%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) LangChain
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Graph
1 2 (5.13%) Semantic Kernel
2 1 (2.56%) HTML
2 1 (2.56%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.26%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.13%) AI Agents
4 2 (5.13%) Graphic Design
4 2 (5.13%) Low-Code
4 2 (5.13%) PMI
4 2 (5.13%) Reinsurance
4 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.13%) Social Media
4 2 (5.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.56%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.56%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.56%) Life Science
5 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.56%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
1 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (41.03%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (38.46%) Agile
3 11 (28.21%) Strategic Thinking
4 9 (23.08%) Acceptance Criteria
5 7 (17.95%) Scrum
6 6 (15.38%) AI
6 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 6 (15.38%) Roadmaps
7 5 (12.82%) DevOps
7 5 (12.82%) Product Strategy
7 5 (12.82%) Project Management
7 5 (12.82%) User Stories
7 5 (12.82%) Validation
8 4 (10.26%) Backlog Refinement
8 4 (10.26%) Kanban
8 4 (10.26%) Microservices
8 4 (10.26%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (10.26%) Sprint Retrospective
8 4 (10.26%) Time Management
8 4 (10.26%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) Python
2 2 (5.13%) C#
2 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.56%) Bicep
3 1 (2.56%) R
3 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) MCP
3 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.51%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.69%) Terraform
2 2 (5.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Adobe
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.26%) Salesforce
4 3 (7.69%) Cisco
5 2 (5.13%) Atlassian
5 2 (5.13%) Citrix
5 2 (5.13%) Infoblox
5 2 (5.13%) Meraki
5 2 (5.13%) Nokia
5 2 (5.13%) OpenAI
5 2 (5.13%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.56%) Guidewire
6 1 (2.56%) Optimizely
6 1 (2.56%) Oracle
6 1 (2.56%) SAP
6 1 (2.56%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.56%) VMware