Strategic Thinking Contracts in the North East

Strategic Thinking
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 35 58
Rank change year-on-year -1 +23 -13
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.93% 0.59% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.74% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £775 £700
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +10.71% +21.74%
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 263 272 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.68% 80.00% 91.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 126 300
10th Percentile £225 £240 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £648 £663 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 48 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.97 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £16.48 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% -59.56% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £48.75 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in the North East

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in the North East

Strategic Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Tyne and Wear -1 3 £550 -15.38% 13
Strategic Thinking
England

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
General
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Scala Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Akka
1 2 (66.67%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Programming
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Scala
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce