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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 260 282
Rank change year-on-year +63 +22 +22
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 156 137 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.26% 0.78% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 0.88% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 83 146
10th Percentile £313 £413 £400
25th Percentile £455 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £615
Median % change year-on-year - -10.57% -5.38%
75th Percentile £675 £719 £725
90th Percentile £770 £835 £925
England median daily rate £550 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 2
10th Percentile £46.70 £16.80 £27.38
25th Percentile £47.38 £31.53 £36.56
Median hourly rate £50.75 £67.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.81% +25.58% +1.42%
75th Percentile £63.12 £71.25 £71.56
90th Percentile £83.14 - £81.13
England median hourly rate £52.00 £70.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -25.71% +30.23% +1.42%

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 11,457 15,493 23,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.21% 88.65% 90.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,746 11,112 16,978
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £680 £700
90th Percentile £808 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 307 266
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.77 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.00 £22.43
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -25.10% +0.46%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.38
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 26 £550 -8.33% 51
West London +19 8 £475 -19.15% 15
South London - 1 £675 - 8
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 10 (6.41%) Confluence
2 4 (2.56%) SAS
3 2 (1.28%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.64%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 13 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.28%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.64%) SketchUp
6 1 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.64%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.64%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.64%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (0.64%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 21 (13.46%) AWS
2 13 (8.33%) Azure
2 13 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.13%) SaaS
4 6 (3.85%) Figma
4 6 (3.85%) GCP
5 5 (3.21%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.56%) Serverless
7 3 (1.92%) Azure Functions
7 3 (1.92%) ChatGPT
7 3 (1.92%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.28%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.28%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.28%) IaaS
8 2 (1.28%) PaaS
9 1 (0.64%) Akamai
9 1 (0.64%) Asana
9 1 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.28%) LAN
1 2 (1.28%) WAN
1 2 (1.28%) Wireless
2 1 (0.64%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.64%) Firewall
2 1 (0.64%) Internet
2 1 (0.64%) Intranet
2 1 (0.64%) Network Security
2 1 (0.64%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.64%) SMS
2 1 (0.64%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.64%) VPN
2 1 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.69%) Power BI
2 10 (6.41%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (6.41%) Tableau
3 5 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (3.21%) Data Mart
3 5 (3.21%) Data Vault
3 5 (3.21%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.21%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.56%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.64%) Big Data
7 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.64%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.64%) DTS
7 1 (0.64%) GIS
7 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (6.41%) JIRA
2 1 (0.64%) Git
2 1 (0.64%) Subversion
General
1 84 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 56 (35.90%) Finance
3 52 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (13.46%) Banking
5 16 (10.26%) Marketing
6 14 (8.97%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (8.97%) Public Sector
7 12 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (5.13%) Front Office
8 8 (5.13%) Legal
9 6 (3.85%) Investment Banking
9 6 (3.85%) Retail
9 6 (3.85%) Telecoms
10 5 (3.21%) Advertising
10 5 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.56%) Brand Awareness
11 4 (2.56%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.56%) Law
11 4 (2.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (11.54%) Architect
2 16 (10.26%) Lead
2 16 (10.26%) Project Manager
2 16 (10.26%) Senior
3 15 (9.62%) Analyst
4 11 (7.05%) Business Analyst
5 10 (6.41%) Developer
6 9 (5.77%) Designer
7 8 (5.13%) Product Manager
8 7 (4.49%) Consultant
9 6 (3.85%) Insurance Business Analyst
9 6 (3.85%) Python Developer
9 6 (3.85%) Security Architect
10 5 (3.21%) Data Modeller
10 5 (3.21%) Product Designer
10 5 (3.21%) Senior Designer
11 4 (2.56%) Credit Analyst
11 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Architect
11 4 (2.56%) Senior UX Designer
11 4 (2.56%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.21%) REST
2 3 (1.92%) SailPoint
2 3 (1.92%) SOAP
3 2 (1.28%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.28%) Django
3 2 (1.28%) EDI
3 2 (1.28%) HTML
3 2 (1.28%) htmx
3 2 (1.28%) Kafka
3 2 (1.28%) LDAP
3 2 (1.28%) OAuth
3 2 (1.28%) OpenID
3 2 (1.28%) SAML
4 1 (0.64%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.64%) HTML5
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.64%) RESTful
4 1 (0.64%) SAP TM
4 1 (0.64%) Sass
4 1 (0.64%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.21%) Credit Risk
2 5 (3.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (3.21%) Onboarding
2 5 (3.21%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.56%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.56%) Security Posture
3 4 (2.56%) Social Media
4 3 (1.92%) Blog
4 3 (1.92%) CCTV
5 2 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.28%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.28%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.28%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.28%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.28%) NHS
5 2 (1.28%) PMI
5 2 (1.28%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.92%) Linux
2 2 (1.28%) Unix
2 2 (1.28%) Windows
2 2 (1.28%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.64%) AIX
3 1 (0.64%) Android
3 1 (0.64%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (23.08%) Decision-Making
3 34 (21.79%) Agile
4 30 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (16.67%) Project Management
5 26 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 24 (15.38%) Risk Management
7 21 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (12.18%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (9.62%) Business Strategy
10 15 (9.62%) User Experience
11 14 (8.97%) Analytics
12 13 (8.33%) DevOps
13 12 (7.69%) Change Management
13 12 (7.69%) Data Analysis
13 12 (7.69%) Mentoring
13 12 (7.69%) Visualisation
14 11 (7.05%) Programme Management
14 11 (7.05%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 15 (9.62%) Python
1 15 (9.62%) SQL
2 5 (3.21%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.92%) Bash
3 3 (1.92%) Java
3 3 (1.92%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.64%) C#
4 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.64%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.64%) Perl
4 1 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (17.31%) Degree
2 14 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.41%) PMI Certification
3 10 (6.41%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (5.77%) PMP
5 6 (3.85%) CISSP
6 5 (3.21%) CISM
7 4 (2.56%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.92%) SAP Certification
9 2 (1.28%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.28%) CRISC
10 1 (0.64%) ACCA
10 1 (0.64%) CGEIT
10 1 (0.64%) CIPFA
10 1 (0.64%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.41%) GDPR
2 7 (4.49%) NIST
3 6 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.56%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.28%) NCSC
7 2 (1.28%) PMO
8 1 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.64%) Basel II
8 1 (0.64%) COBIT
8 1 (0.64%) GRC
8 1 (0.64%) IFRS
8 1 (0.64%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.64%) QA
8 1 (0.64%) SEPA
8 1 (0.64%) SLA
8 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.92%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.92%) Terraform
2 2 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.64%) Ansible
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.77%) Google
2 9 (5.77%) SAP
3 6 (3.85%) Adobe
4 5 (3.21%) Okta
4 5 (3.21%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.56%) Facebook
5 4 (2.56%) Oracle
6 3 (1.92%) ForgeRock
6 3 (1.92%) Instagram
7 2 (1.28%) Cisco
7 2 (1.28%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.64%) Apple
8 1 (0.64%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.64%) ESRI
8 1 (0.64%) Genesys
8 1 (0.64%) IBM
8 1 (0.64%) Progress
8 1 (0.64%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.64%) TIBCO