Creative Thinking
East Midlands > Northamptonshire
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Creative Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Creative Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 17 May 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | - | 30 | 31 |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | +1 | +11 |
| Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire | - | 0.45% | 0.83% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category | - | 0.50% | 0.92% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | - | £450 | £400 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | +12.50% | -3.03% |
| East Midlands median daily rate | - | £513 | £400 |
| % change year-on-year | - | +28.13% | -3.03% |
All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire
Creative 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 Northamptonshire.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills | 161 | 202 | 218 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire | 92.00% | 90.18% | 90.46% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 140 | 154 | 168 |
| 10th Percentile | £262 | £310 | £189 |
| 25th Percentile | £331 | £356 | £308 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £396 | £445 | £394 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -11.12% | +13.02% | -13.46% |
| 75th Percentile | £473 | £547 | £500 |
| 90th Percentile | £526 | £619 | £588 |
| East Midlands median daily rate | £433 | £419 | £455 |
| % change year-on-year | +3.35% | -8.02% | +3.41% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 4 | 16 | 17 |
| 10th Percentile | £16.04 | £10.90 | £16.44 |
| 25th Percentile | £19.48 | £13.23 | £18.13 |
| Median hourly rate | £21.39 | £14.00 | £51.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +52.79% | -72.55% | +79.32% |
| 75th Percentile | £29.79 | £44.55 | £51.50 |
| 90th Percentile | £44.92 | £54.50 | - |
| East Midlands median hourly rate | £18.82 | £17.00 | £20.65 |
| % change year-on-year | +10.69% | -17.69% | +3.26% |
Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire
Job postings citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.
Creative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in Northamptonshire.