Creative Thinking Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Creative Thinking
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 101 51 56
Rank change year-on-year -50 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 1 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.094% 0.80% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.83% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £261 -
25th Percentile - £333 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £455 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% +7.06% -
75th Percentile - £521 £438
90th Percentile - £559 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £455 £388
% change year-on-year -6.59% +17.42% -29.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 975 360 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 91.38% 95.49% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 637 235 244
10th Percentile £358 £220 £315
25th Percentile £413 £386 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £474
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% +0.32% -13.91%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £669 £650 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.47% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 14
10th Percentile £15.28 - £10.90
25th Percentile £15.34 £18.10 £12.64
Median hourly rate £19.34 £18.21 £17.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.23% +3.35% +65.71%
75th Percentile £24.29 £18.41 £23.75
90th Percentile - £18.47 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Creative Thinking job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 2026. 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
Sheffield -50 1 £400 -22.89% 3
Creative Thinking
Yorkshire

Creative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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