Thought Leadership Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Thought Leadership
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Thought Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 135 139
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +58
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 12 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.44% 0.037% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.045% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 6
10th Percentile £438 - £425
25th Percentile £459 £763 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £775 £538
Median % change year-on-year -36.65% +44.19% +19.44%
75th Percentile £528 £788 £788
90th Percentile £638 - £913
England median daily rate £537 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +2.29% -12.50% -7.69%

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 2,405 2,241 2,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.55% 83.15% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 1,412 1,744
10th Percentile £249 £251 £250
25th Percentile £363 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £698 £700
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 69 104
10th Percentile £13.82 £14.57 £13.79
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.30 £23.60 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% -14.18% +56.61%
75th Percentile £26.51 £42.25 £52.06
90th Percentile £42.13 £55.05 £68.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Thought Leadership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Thought Leadership job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Thought Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Thought Leadership

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Thought Leadership in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Thought Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Thought Leadership

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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 4 October 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
East Midlands -2 7 £475 -38.71% 4
West Midlands - 4 £525 - 13
Thought Leadership
England

Thought Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
3 5 (41.67%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Applications Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Lead
2 1 (8.33%) Programme Director
2 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Blockchain
1 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (8.33%) IoT
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (58.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 7 (58.33%) Roadmaps
3 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (50.00%) User Experience
4 5 (41.67%) Data Protection
4 5 (41.67%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (41.67%) Zero Trust
5 4 (33.33%) Budgeting
5 4 (33.33%) Business Transformation
5 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 4 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
5 4 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
6 3 (25.00%) Agile
7 2 (16.67%) Analytics
7 2 (16.67%) Application Packaging
7 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
7 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
7 2 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Bash
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) GDPR
1 6 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) SCCM
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Citrix
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) Autodesk
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks