Thought Leadership Contracts in the North of England

Thought Leadership
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Thought Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 166 207
Rank change year-on-year +5 +41 +13
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 8 14 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.24% 0.30% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.35% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 4
10th Percentile £508 £523 £443
25th Percentile £511 £539 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £577 £613
Median % change year-on-year +6.24% -5.88% +22.50%
75th Percentile £706 £614 £700
90th Percentile £718 £617 -
England median daily rate £550 £577 £600
% change year-on-year -4.60% -3.92% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £81.00 -
England median hourly rate - £52.50 £75.50
% change year-on-year - -30.46% +130.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,971 4,053 5,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.98% 85.80% 90.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,909 2,479 3,654
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £380 £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 150 358 203
10th Percentile £13.68 £11.05 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.50 £16.22
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £28.70
Median % change year-on-year +62.25% -38.26% +54.36%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.74 £46.03
90th Percentile £83.59 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Thought Leadership in the North of England

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Thought Leadership in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Thought Leadership in the North of England

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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 Thought Leadership within the North of England region over the 6 months to 3 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
Yorkshire +9 4 £606 - 48
North West +3 4 £613 +6.24% 93
Thought Leadership
England

Thought Leadership
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 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) dbt
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
1 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
2 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Data Mining
2 1 (12.50%) Data Vault
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) HBase
2 1 (12.50%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) Pentaho
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) ERwin
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Product Manager
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SAPUI5 Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) HTML5
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
1 1 (12.50%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (12.50%) SAPUI5
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (25.00%) IoT
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) Roadmaps
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (25.00%) Coaching
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Data Security
3 2 (25.00%) Interface Catalogue
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Project Planning
3 2 (25.00%) SOA
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Informatica
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) SAP