Thought Leadership Contracts in the Midlands

Thought Leadership
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 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 106 118 158
Rank change year-on-year +12 +40 +39
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 5 15 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.54% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.66% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 4
10th Percentile - £446 £434
25th Percentile - £544 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £528
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +13.74% -24.64%
75th Percentile - £691 £691
90th Percentile £523 £775 £876
England median daily rate £550 £577 £600
% change year-on-year -4.60% -3.92% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Thought Leadership in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Thought Leadership in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +12 5 £500 -16.67% 47
Thought Leadership
England

Thought Leadership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Applications Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Blockchain
1 4 (80.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (80.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Architectural Design
2 4 (80.00%) Cost Reduction
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Interface Catalogue
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Project Planning
2 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (80.00%) SOA
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared