Creative Thinking Contracts in Reading

Creative Thinking
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 77 89
Rank change year-on-year -15 +12 -27
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 4 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% 0.87% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.96% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 10
10th Percentile £520 £468 -
25th Percentile £522 £531 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £431
Median % change year-on-year - +27.54% -4.96%
75th Percentile £574 £603 £547
90th Percentile £575 £669 £573
Berkshire median daily rate £519 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -5.68% +29.41% -1.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,072 935 1,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.24% 90.60% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 623 816
10th Percentile £213 £363 £236
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £658 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in Reading

Creative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Creative Thinking in Reading

Creative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Creative Thinking in Reading

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
General
1 3 (75.00%) Legal
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Procurement Officer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Animation
1 1 (25.00%) Graphic Design
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Management
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix
1 3 (75.00%) HP
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe