Strategic Thinking Contracts in London

Strategic Thinking
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 199 258 283
Rank change year-on-year +59 +25 +28
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 158 134 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.26% 0.75% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 0.85% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 80 140
10th Percentile £313 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £608
Median % change year-on-year - -9.47% -6.54%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £765 £844 £950
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 4
10th Percentile £46.85 £16.80 -
25th Percentile £47.75 £26.57 £21.25
Median hourly rate £52.00 £67.50 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.96% +152.34% -38.51%
75th Percentile £58.75 £71.25 £45.50
90th Percentile £81.39 - £70.70
England median hourly rate £52.25 £70.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -25.36% +211.11% -48.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 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%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in London

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in London

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in London

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Thinking in London

Strategic Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Strategic Thinking in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in London

Strategic 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 Strategic 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 +10 29 £563 +2.27% 46
West London +19 8 £475 -19.15% 10
South London - 1 £675 - 10
Strategic Thinking
England

Strategic 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 8 (5.06%) Confluence
2 4 (2.53%) SAS
2 4 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.63%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 13 (8.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.63%) SketchUp
5 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.27%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.63%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.63%) SAP GTS
2 1 (0.63%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 18 (11.39%) AWS
2 17 (10.76%) Power Platform
3 12 (7.59%) Azure
4 7 (4.43%) SaaS
5 5 (3.16%) Amazon S3
5 5 (3.16%) Figma
5 5 (3.16%) GCP
6 3 (1.90%) ChatGPT
6 3 (1.90%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.90%) Serverless
7 2 (1.27%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (1.27%) Asana
7 2 (1.27%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.27%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.27%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.27%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.27%) IaaS
7 2 (1.27%) PaaS
7 2 (1.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) LAN
1 2 (1.27%) WAN
1 2 (1.27%) Wireless
2 1 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.63%) Firewall
2 1 (0.63%) Intranet
2 1 (0.63%) Network Security
2 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.63%) SMS
2 1 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.63%) VPN
2 1 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.13%) Tableau
2 15 (9.49%) Power BI
3 10 (6.33%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (3.16%) Data Mart
4 5 (3.16%) Data Vault
4 5 (3.16%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.53%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.53%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.27%) Looker
6 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.63%) Big Data
7 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (5.70%) JIRA
2 1 (0.63%) Git
2 1 (0.63%) Subversion
General
1 83 (52.53%) Social Skills
2 53 (33.54%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (31.65%) Finance
4 22 (13.92%) Banking
5 19 (12.03%) Marketing
6 17 (10.76%) Public Sector
7 12 (7.59%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (6.96%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (5.06%) Legal
10 7 (4.43%) Financial Institution
11 6 (3.80%) Front Office
11 6 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (3.80%) Retail
11 6 (3.80%) Telecoms
12 5 (3.16%) Advertising
12 5 (3.16%) Investment Banking
12 5 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (2.53%) German Language
13 4 (2.53%) Law
13 4 (2.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (12.03%) Architect
2 18 (11.39%) Lead
3 14 (8.86%) Analyst
4 13 (8.23%) Senior
5 12 (7.59%) Project Manager
6 10 (6.33%) Business Analyst
6 10 (6.33%) Designer
6 10 (6.33%) Developer
6 10 (6.33%) Product Manager
7 7 (4.43%) Consultant
8 6 (3.80%) Insurance Business Analyst
8 6 (3.80%) Product Designer
8 6 (3.80%) Security Architect
9 5 (3.16%) Data Modeller
9 5 (3.16%) Programme Manager
9 5 (3.16%) Python Developer
9 5 (3.16%) Senior Designer
10 4 (2.53%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (2.53%) Head of Business Intelligence
10 4 (2.53%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.16%) REST
2 4 (2.53%) HTML
2 4 (2.53%) SOAP
3 3 (1.90%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.90%) CSS
3 3 (1.90%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.27%) Django
4 2 (1.27%) EDI
4 2 (1.27%) htmx
4 2 (1.27%) Kafka
4 2 (1.27%) LDAP
4 2 (1.27%) OAuth
4 2 (1.27%) OpenID
4 2 (1.27%) SAML
5 1 (0.63%) HTML5
5 1 (0.63%) jQuery
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.63%) SAP TM
5 1 (0.63%) Sass
5 1 (0.63%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
1 6 (3.80%) Social Media
2 5 (3.16%) Credit Risk
2 5 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (2.53%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.53%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.53%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.53%) Security Posture
4 3 (1.90%) Blog
4 3 (1.90%) CCTV
4 3 (1.90%) Cyberattack
4 3 (1.90%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.27%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.27%) Graphic Design
5 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.27%) NHS
5 2 (1.27%) PMI
5 2 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.90%) Linux
2 2 (1.27%) Unix
2 2 (1.27%) Windows
2 2 (1.27%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.63%) AIX
3 1 (0.63%) Android
3 1 (0.63%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (35.44%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (20.25%) Decision-Making
3 31 (19.62%) Agile
4 30 (18.99%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (16.46%) Project Management
5 26 (16.46%) Risk Management
6 24 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (15.19%) Roadmaps
7 20 (12.66%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (12.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 17 (10.76%) Analytics
8 17 (10.76%) Visualisation
9 16 (10.13%) User Experience
10 15 (9.49%) Data Visualisation
11 13 (8.23%) Data Analysis
11 13 (8.23%) Mentoring
11 13 (8.23%) Storytelling
12 12 (7.59%) Data Governance
12 12 (7.59%) Product Management
13 11 (6.96%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (10.76%) Python
2 16 (10.13%) SQL
3 5 (3.16%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.53%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.90%) Bash
5 3 (1.90%) Java
5 3 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.27%) R
7 1 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (15.82%) Degree
2 15 (9.49%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.33%) PMI Certification
3 10 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.70%) PMP
5 7 (4.43%) CISSP
6 6 (3.80%) CISM
6 6 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.90%) CRISC
7 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.63%) CGEIT
9 1 (0.63%) CIMA
9 1 (0.63%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.63%) CISA
9 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.63%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.86%) GDPR
2 8 (5.06%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.06%) NIST
3 6 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.16%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.53%) QA
6 3 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.27%) GRC
7 2 (1.27%) NCSC
7 2 (1.27%) PMO
8 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.63%) Basel II
8 1 (0.63%) IFRS
8 1 (0.63%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.63%) SEPA
8 1 (0.63%) SLA
8 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.53%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.53%) Terraform
2 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.63%) Ansible
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (13.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.06%) Google
3 7 (4.43%) Facebook
3 7 (4.43%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.80%) Adobe
4 6 (3.80%) Oracle
4 6 (3.80%) SAP
5 5 (3.16%) Okta
6 4 (2.53%) Instagram
7 3 (1.90%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.27%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.27%) Cisco
8 2 (1.27%) Marketo
8 2 (1.27%) YouTube
9 1 (0.63%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (0.63%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.63%) Cvent
9 1 (0.63%) ESRI
9 1 (0.63%) IBM
9 1 (0.63%) NEC