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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 33 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.55% 0.93% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £462 £653 -
25th Percentile £495 £694 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £775 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% - -
75th Percentile - £844 -
90th Percentile - £878 -
England median daily rate £550 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -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 258 260 330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 79.88% 80.50% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 119 258
10th Percentile £225 £260 £248
25th Percentile £353 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £573 £597 £625
90th Percentile £633 £680 £706
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -57.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.18 £48.75 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.35 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%

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

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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
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the North East over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in the North East

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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 18 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 -3 5 £550 -15.38% 16
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 2 (40.00%) Marketing
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Business Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Business Operations Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Operations Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Business Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Akka
1 2 (40.00%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) API Development
2 2 (40.00%) API Integration
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (40.00%) Commercialisation
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Deadline-Driven
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Functional Programming
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Scala
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce