Creative Thinking Contracts in the North West

Creative Thinking
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Creative Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Creative Thinking over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 152 172
Rank change year-on-year +25 +20 -43
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 14 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.50% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.21% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 6
10th Percentile £494 £425 £370
25th Percentile £519 £444 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% +8.11% +20.13%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £488
90th Percentile £675 £665 £588
England median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Creative Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,400 2,922 3,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.42% 90.97% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,555 2,080 2,592
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £406 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 149 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.73 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.16 £20.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £45.00 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £54.00 £65.15 £59.38
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Creative Thinking in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in the North West over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Thinking in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Creative Thinking in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Thinking within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
Manchester - 9 £625 - 13
Cheshire +1 3 £475 -5.00% 6
Cumbria - 1 £515 -
Lancashire - 1 £800 - 3
Creative Thinking
England

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) SAP HANA
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Law
3 4 (28.57%) Legal
3 4 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Marketing
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
3 3 (21.43%) Integration Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) SAP Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Change Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Analytics Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Business Integration Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Data Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Data Scientist
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Head of Design
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) ITIL Change Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Service Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
1 1 (7.14%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) Shiny
1 1 (7.14%) Swagger
1 1 (7.14%) Visualforce
1 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Virtual Team
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
1 6 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 5 (35.71%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (35.71%) Data Strategy
3 4 (28.57%) Generative AI
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (21.43%) Business Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (21.43%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (21.43%) Project Management
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) Change Advisory Board
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 2 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 2 (14.29%) ITIL
5 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Apex Code
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
2 2 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Workday