Strategic Thinking Contracts in the North West

Strategic Thinking
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Strategic Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 139 158
Rank change year-on-year +24 +19 -42
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 21 17 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.76% 0.53% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.58% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 21
10th Percentile £536 £473 £363
25th Percentile £538 £508 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £670 £663 £738
90th Percentile £672 £700 £750
England median daily rate £575 £600 £618
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.83% +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £26.75 £43.50
% change year-on-year +161.68% -38.51% +10.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Strategic 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 2,393 2,921 3,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.30% 90.71% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,532 2,076 2,595
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £591 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 147 165
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.61 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.30 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +13.51%
75th Percentile £45.88 £48.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £59.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic 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 Strategic Thinking in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic 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 Strategic Thinking in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Strategic 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 Strategic Thinking within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 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
Cumbria - 12 £612 -
Manchester +7 7 £575 -11.54% 26
Merseyside +18 1 - - 3
Lancashire - 1 £725 - 2
Strategic Thinking
England

Strategic 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 3 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (9.52%) nginx
2 2 (9.52%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) AWS
1 3 (14.29%) GCP
1 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Skype
2 2 (9.52%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Power BI
1 3 (14.29%) Tableau
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
1 2 (9.52%) GitLab
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 5 (23.81%) Finance
4 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Police
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Architect
2 9 (42.86%) Domain Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Business Manager
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Executive Assistant
5 1 (4.76%) NHS Programme Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Programme Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Risk Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Risk Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) cloud-init
2 1 (4.76%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.76%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (9.52%) Clustering
2 2 (9.52%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) NHS
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) CentOS
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) IT Strategy
1 10 (47.62%) Technology Strategy
2 9 (42.86%) TOGAF
2 9 (42.86%) Zachman Framework
3 5 (23.81%) Change Management
4 4 (19.05%) Business Case
5 3 (14.29%) Business Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) Financial Modelling
5 3 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
6 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security
6 2 (9.52%) Configuration Management
6 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
6 2 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (9.52%) Cost Reduction
6 2 (9.52%) DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) Load Balancing
6 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.52%) Risk Management
6 2 (9.52%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Bash
1 2 (9.52%) Go
1 2 (9.52%) Python
1 2 (9.52%) Ruby
2 1 (4.76%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) Degree
1 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) NCSC
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (9.52%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Ansible
1 2 (9.52%) Consul
1 2 (9.52%) Docker Swarm
1 2 (9.52%) Graphite
1 2 (9.52%) HAProxy
1 2 (9.52%) Istio
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.52%) linkerd
1 2 (9.52%) Packer
1 2 (9.52%) Podman
1 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
1 2 (9.52%) Puppet
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
1 2 (9.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) PagerDuty
1 2 (9.52%) Splunk
1 2 (9.52%) VMware
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Salesforce