Strategic Thinking Contracts in the North of England

Strategic Thinking
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 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 123 159 187
Rank change year-on-year +36 +28 +9
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 43 26 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.31% 0.55% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 0.64% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 15 28
10th Percentile £306 £537 £467
25th Percentile £356 £538 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £636 £550
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% +15.55% -8.90%
75th Percentile £608 £671 £659
90th Percentile £788 £743 £700
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £56.10 - -
25th Percentile £66.63 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £90.42 - £22.50
75th Percentile £97.60 - £23.75
90th Percentile £98.17 - -
England median hourly rate £52.25 £70.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -25.36% +211.11% -48.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in the North of England

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in the North of England

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in the North of England

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Thinking in the North of England

Strategic Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in the North of England

Strategic Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +24 28 £410 -31.67% 108
Yorkshire +18 12 £400 - 30
North East +1 3 £550 -29.03% 15
Strategic Thinking
England

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

Application Platforms
1 8 (18.60%) IBM Domino
2 1 (2.33%) CICS
2 1 (2.33%) nginx
2 1 (2.33%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Maximo
1 1 (2.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.98%) AWS
1 3 (6.98%) Figma
2 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (4.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 2 (4.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) DNS
1 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.33%) Data Hub
2 1 (2.33%) DB2
2 1 (2.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) GitLab
1 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.65%) JIRA
General
1 16 (37.21%) Analytical Skills
1 16 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Finance
3 5 (11.63%) Banking
3 5 (11.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (9.30%) Legal
5 3 (6.98%) Marketing
5 3 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Aviation
6 1 (2.33%) Digital Health
6 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Coordinator
1 8 (18.60%) CRM Coordinator
1 8 (18.60%) Technical Coordinator
2 6 (13.95%) Developer
2 6 (13.95%) Lead
3 5 (11.63%) Architect
3 5 (11.63%) Scala Developer
4 4 (9.30%) Senior
5 3 (6.98%) Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Content Designer
5 3 (6.98%) Designer
5 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.98%) UX Designer
6 2 (4.65%) Information Assurance Leader
6 2 (4.65%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) Akka
1 5 (11.63%) Play Framework
2 2 (4.65%) cloud-init
2 2 (4.65%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.33%) FHIR
3 1 (2.33%) Kafka
3 1 (2.33%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 3 (6.98%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.98%) Social Media
3 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.33%) NHS
4 1 (2.33%) PKI
4 1 (2.33%) PMI
4 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) CentOS
1 2 (4.65%) Linux
1 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (4.65%) Unix
2 1 (2.33%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (46.51%) Decision-Making
1 20 (46.51%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (44.19%) Agile
3 13 (30.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (25.58%) Change Management
5 10 (23.26%) CI/CD
6 9 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (20.93%) CRM
7 8 (18.60%) Customer Segmentation
7 8 (18.60%) Data Management
7 8 (18.60%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 7 (16.28%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (16.28%) Risk Management
9 6 (13.95%) Business Strategy
9 6 (13.95%) PRINCE2
10 5 (11.63%) API Development
10 5 (11.63%) Code Quality
10 5 (11.63%) Functional Programming
10 5 (11.63%) Microservices
10 5 (11.63%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.63%) Scala
2 2 (4.65%) Apex Code
2 2 (4.65%) Bash
2 2 (4.65%) Go
2 2 (4.65%) Python
3 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) PMI Certification
1 4 (9.30%) PMP
1 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.33%) CISM
3 1 (2.33%) CISSP
3 1 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.98%) PMO
3 2 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.33%) HL7
4 1 (2.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Kibana
2 2 (4.65%) Packer
2 2 (4.65%) Terraform
3 1 (2.33%) Consul
3 1 (2.33%) Grafana
3 1 (2.33%) HAProxy
3 1 (2.33%) Istio
3 1 (2.33%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.33%) linkerd
3 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.33%) Rancher
3 1 (2.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (9.30%) Salesforce
2 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.33%) Apple
4 1 (2.33%) ESET
4 1 (2.33%) Okta
4 1 (2.33%) SAP
4 1 (2.33%) Splunk