Systems Thinking Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Systems Thinking
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Systems Thinking skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 164 190
Rank change year-on-year -11 +26 +49
Contract jobs citing Systems Thinking 10 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.25% 0.049% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.059% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £401 £481 -
25th Percentile £407 £491 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £631 £541 £575
90th Percentile £745 £554 -
England median daily rate £600 £550 £580
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% +7.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Systems 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 3,505 3,402 4,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.98% 83.94% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,260 2,021 2,970
10th Percentile £268 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £404 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.75% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.96% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 190 201
10th Percentile £13.32 £12.53 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +27.27% +37.50%
75th Percentile £36.19 £51.66 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.56 £70.00 £55.85
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

Systems Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Thinking in the North of England

Systems Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Systems Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Systems Thinking

Systems Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Thinking in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Thinking in the North of England

Systems Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Systems Thinking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Systems Thinking

Systems 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 Systems Thinking within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 September 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 -4 5 £451 -12.00% 7
Yorkshire - 4 £613 - 2
North East - 2 £475 - 2
Systems Thinking
England

Systems 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
1 2 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Figma
1 2 (20.00%) GCP
1 2 (20.00%) IBM Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Lucidchart
1 2 (20.00%) Miro
1 2 (20.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Calico
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Banking
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Designer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (30.00%) UX Designer
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Service Designer
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (30.00%) Replication
2 2 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) HPUX
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Solaris
2 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Android
3 2 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Journey Map
3 4 (40.00%) Service Design
3 4 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (30.00%) High Availability
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) User Experience
4 3 (30.00%) UX Design
5 2 (20.00%) Data Management
5 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) ITSM
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
5 2 (20.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Istio
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Unisys