Strategic Thinking Contracts in South Yorkshire

Strategic Thinking
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Strategic Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.56% - 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% - 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £345 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £600
75th Percentile £355 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -5.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Strategic 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 507 425 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.41% 87.09% 91.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 238 290
10th Percentile £288 £317 £300
25th Percentile £384 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £552
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.41% +10.39%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £675
90th Percentile £638 £623 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 21
10th Percentile £15.00 - -
25th Percentile £17.33 £12.55 -
Median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +43.08% +20.70% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.50 -
90th Percentile - £21.90 £11.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year +64.00% -18.18% -11.76%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in South Yorkshire

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in South Yorkshire

Strategic 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 Strategic Thinking within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
Sheffield - 3 £350 - 10
Strategic Thinking
Yorkshire

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
1 2 (66.67%) Power Query
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modeller
2 1 (33.33%) Finance Modeller
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Extraction
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Interpretation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft