Creative Thinking Contracts in the South East

Creative Thinking
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 25 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 176 229
Rank change year-on-year -8 +53 -24
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 16 39 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.28% 0.69% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.77% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 31
10th Percentile £370 £518 £130
25th Percentile £475 £538 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +41.18% +3.03%
75th Percentile £552 £675 £517
90th Percentile £580 £809 £550
England median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £16.00 £15.21 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% - -
England median hourly rate £19.50 £48.00 £16.93
% change year-on-year -59.38% +183.52% -23.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Creative Thinking in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in the South East over the 6 months to 25 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Thinking in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Creative Thinking in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Thinking within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Thames Valley -16 11 £513 -14.58% 18
Berkshire -8 9 £500 +8.11% 7
West Sussex - 3 £475 - 2
Hampshire -8 2 - - 4
Buckinghamshire +7 1 £600 -7.69% 6
Oxfordshire -5 1 - - 5
Creative Thinking
England

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (6.25%) CMS
1 1 (6.25%) EPiServer
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) SaaS
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (6.25%) Figma
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) NAS
1 3 (18.75%) SAN
2 1 (6.25%) 3G
2 1 (6.25%) 4G
2 1 (6.25%) 5G
2 1 (6.25%) Broadband
2 1 (6.25%) DSL
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (6.25%) Postman
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Marketing
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Legal
3 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Publishing
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
1 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Storage Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Storage Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Procurement Officer
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Author
4 1 (6.25%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Junior
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Author
4 1 (6.25%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) CSS
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) jQuery
3 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Graphic Design
3 1 (6.25%) Animation
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (12.50%) Analytics
4 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Innovative Thinking
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Management
4 2 (12.50%) Scrum
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (6.25%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (6.25%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (6.25%) Cyber Assurance
5 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.25%) Prototyping
5 1 (6.25%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) CSPO
2 1 (6.25%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (18.75%) vSphere
2 1 (6.25%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Citrix
3 2 (12.50%) HP
3 2 (12.50%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.25%) Adobe
4 1 (6.25%) Optimizely
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud