Thought Leadership Contracts in London

Thought Leadership
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Thought Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 330 327
Rank change year-on-year +38 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 56 63 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.45% 0.35% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.40% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 34 96
10th Percentile £375 £274 £325
25th Percentile £486 £357 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £573 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% -4.58% -14.29%
75th Percentile £750 £750 £725
90th Percentile £806 £800 £875
England median daily rate £550 £577 £600
% change year-on-year -4.60% -3.92% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £49.50 -
England median hourly rate - £52.50 £75.50
% change year-on-year - -30.46% +130.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Thought Leadership 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 11,589 15,772 24,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.17% 88.59% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,863 11,305 17,624
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £438 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
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 168 326 277
10th Percentile £16.30 £16.00 £18.58
25th Percentile £22.56 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £33.00 £28.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -26.45% +6.43%
75th Percentile £50.56 £47.34 £62.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.25 £76.95
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Thought Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in London

Thought Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership in London.

Daily rate trend for Thought Leadership in London

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Thought Leadership in London

Thought Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership in London.

Hourly rate trend for Thought Leadership in London

Thought Leadership
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 Thought Leadership within the London region over the 6 months to 3 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 +3 9 £575 -14.81% 17
Thought Leadership
England

Thought Leadership
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 2 (3.57%) Apache
1 2 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.79%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.57%) SAP PP
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.79%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.50%) AWS
2 6 (10.71%) Azure
3 3 (5.36%) GCP
4 2 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.57%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.57%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 2 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.57%) Matillion
4 2 (3.57%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.57%) Route 53
4 2 (3.57%) Serverless
4 2 (3.57%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.79%) Figma
5 1 (1.79%) GitHub
5 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.79%) IaaS
5 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.79%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) BIG-IP
1 2 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (3.57%) DHCP
1 2 (3.57%) DNS
1 2 (3.57%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 2 (3.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (3.57%) Firewall
1 2 (3.57%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.57%) Wireless
1 2 (3.57%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.79%) Network Security
2 1 (1.79%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) Tableau
2 2 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (3.57%) Apache Hive
2 2 (3.57%) Big Data
2 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.57%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.57%) Impala
2 2 (3.57%) Looker
2 2 (3.57%) Spotfire
3 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.79%) DTS
3 1 (1.79%) Metadata
3 1 (1.79%) Power BI
3 1 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Appium
1 1 (1.79%) Axure RP
1 1 (1.79%) Balsamiq
1 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
1 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.79%) JIRA
1 1 (1.79%) Selenium
1 1 (1.79%) TestNG
General
1 23 (41.07%) Finance
2 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 14 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (16.07%) Marketing
5 8 (14.29%) Retail
6 7 (12.50%) Banking
7 4 (7.14%) Legal
7 4 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
9 2 (3.57%) Advertising
9 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
9 2 (3.57%) Manufacturing
9 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.79%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (26.79%) Architect
2 9 (16.07%) Senior
3 5 (8.93%) Consultant
3 5 (8.93%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
4 4 (7.14%) Product Manager
5 3 (5.36%) Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (5.36%) Lead
5 3 (5.36%) Marketing Manager
5 3 (5.36%) Network Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.57%) Customer Experience Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Development Director
6 2 (3.57%) Finance Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Project Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Senior Architect
6 2 (3.57%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (3.57%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) CSS
1 3 (5.36%) HTML
2 1 (1.79%) ATL
2 1 (1.79%) JSON
2 1 (1.79%) Playwright
2 1 (1.79%) REST
2 1 (1.79%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.79%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.79%) SAPUI5
2 1 (1.79%) SOAP
2 1 (1.79%) Web Services
2 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.36%) Social Media
4 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.57%) Digital Wallet
4 2 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.57%) Life Science
4 2 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.57%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.79%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) IoT
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Linux
1 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.79%) Analytics
2 14 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (19.64%) Agile
3 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (19.64%) Project Management
4 10 (17.86%) Decision-Making
4 10 (17.86%) Roadmaps
5 8 (14.29%) Customer Experience
6 7 (12.50%) Business Development
6 7 (12.50%) CRM
6 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 7 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 7 (12.50%) TOGAF
6 7 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
7 6 (10.71%) Fintech
7 6 (10.71%) Project Delivery
8 5 (8.93%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (8.93%) IT Strategy
8 5 (8.93%) Product Strategy
8 5 (8.93%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.71%) Java
2 5 (8.93%) JavaScript
3 4 (7.14%) SQL
4 3 (5.36%) Python
5 2 (3.57%) Scala
6 1 (1.79%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.79%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) Degree
2 6 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.57%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.57%) PMP
5 1 (1.79%) CISSP
5 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) GDPR
1 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.57%) MiFID
1 2 (3.57%) NIST
1 2 (3.57%) PSD2
1 2 (3.57%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.79%) NCSC
2 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.79%) PMO
2 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.79%) SLA
2 1 (1.79%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (3.57%) OPNET
Vendors
1 11 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) Salesforce
2 5 (8.93%) SAP
2 5 (8.93%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.36%) Adobe
3 3 (5.36%) Google
3 3 (5.36%) TOWER Software
4 2 (3.57%) CheckPoint
4 2 (3.57%) Cisco
4 2 (3.57%) Cloudera
4 2 (3.57%) F5
4 2 (3.57%) Infoblox
4 2 (3.57%) Informatica
4 2 (3.57%) Meraki
4 2 (3.57%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.57%) StreamSets
4 2 (3.57%) Talend
5 1 (1.79%) Ensighten
5 1 (1.79%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.79%) Tealium