Creative Thinking Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Creative Thinking
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Creative Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 46 -
Rank change year-on-year -50 - -
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.10% 0.62% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £519 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.89% - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £455 £425
% change year-on-year -12.09% +7.06% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 899 309 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 91.73% 95.67% 92.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 203 203
10th Percentile £360 £243 £375
25th Percentile £413 £388 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £591 £588
90th Percentile £669 £650 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £474
% change year-on-year +1.47% +0.32% -13.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £15.74 - £10.90
25th Percentile £16.34 £18.10 £11.33
Median hourly rate £18.01 £18.21 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -17.25% +91.30%
75th Percentile £19.01 £18.41 £23.75
90th Percentile £19.21 £18.47 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.34 £18.21 £17.62
% change year-on-year +6.23% +3.35% +65.71%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Creative Thinking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Creative Thinking job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Creative Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft