Thought Leadership Contracts in the South East

Thought Leadership
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Thought Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 187 171
Rank change year-on-year +45 -16 +32
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 11 6 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.37% 0.11% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.13% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 23
10th Percentile - £387 £410
25th Percentile £500 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -11.25% -2.04%
75th Percentile £600 £636 £794
90th Percentile - £659 £800
England median daily rate £550 £577 £591
% change year-on-year -4.60% -2.49% -10.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,747 4,644 5,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.44% 84.36% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,755 2,708 3,532
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -1.76% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 435 220
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.00 £16.78
25th Percentile £15.19 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -4.04% +130.23%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.02 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -20.49% -2.14% +52.24%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership 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 Thought Leadership in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Thought Leadership 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 Thought Leadership in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Thought Leadership 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 Thought Leadership within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 May 2025. 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 +39 9 - - 43
Berkshire +30 9 - - 28
Hampshire +31 2 £550 - 14
Thought Leadership
England

Thought Leadership
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
General
1 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
2 3 (27.27%) Back Office
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Automation Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Project Office Support
4 1 (9.09%) BSS Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (9.09%) OSS Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Telecoms Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) EPoS
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 1 (9.09%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Roadmaps
2 4 (36.36%) Technology Roadmap
3 3 (27.27%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
3 3 (27.27%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (27.27%) Order Management
3 3 (27.27%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) Coaching
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Experience
4 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Data Conversion
4 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
4 2 (18.18%) Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Fujitsu
2 1 (9.09%) BT
2 1 (9.09%) Openreach
2 1 (9.09%) Virgin Media