Creative Thinking Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Creative Thinking
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Creative Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.43% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £425 £346 £550
% change year-on-year +23.01% -37.18% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 205 158 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 88.74% 69.91% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 72 101
10th Percentile £129 £153 £220
25th Percentile £160 £211 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £519 £540
90th Percentile £650 £600 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 15
10th Percentile £12.21 £16.12 £13.98
25th Percentile £14.44 £19.27 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.24 £22.44 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.62% +18.09% +8.20%
75th Percentile £46.46 £26.65 £28.72
90th Percentile £51.02 £37.20 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +5.71% +47.71%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Creative Thinking job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Creative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Liverpool - 1 £425 - 2
Creative Thinking
North West

Creative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Design Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design