Thought Leadership Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Thought Leadership
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Thought Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 2.93% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £442 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - -
75th Percentile £489 - -
90th Percentile £567 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £470 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 225 107 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 94.14% 97.27% 96.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 90 68
10th Percentile £312 £307 £285
25th Percentile £354 £356 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £400 £485
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% -17.47% +14.12%
75th Percentile £469 £525 £526
90th Percentile £529 £623 £545
Northamptonshire median daily rate £413 £414 £478
% change year-on-year -0.36% -13.30% +12.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +205.56%
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate - £24.20 £51.00
% change year-on-year - -52.55% +177.55%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Thought Leadership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Thought Leadership job vacancy trend in Northampton

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Thought Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Thought Leadership

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership in Northampton over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Thought Leadership in Northampton

Thought Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 7 (100.00%) GCP
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Google Workspace
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Director
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 7 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 7 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 7 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 7 (100.00%) User Experience
1 7 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 4 (57.14%) Budgeting
2 4 (57.14%) Business Transformation
2 4 (57.14%) Programme Delivery
2 4 (57.14%) Strategic Roadmap
2 4 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Application Packaging
3 3 (42.86%) Business Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (42.86%) IT Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Bash
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) GDPR
1 7 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Citrix
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Google