Strategic Thinking Contracts in Surrey

Strategic Thinking
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 55 66
Rank change year-on-year +19 +11 +12
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.01% 0.17% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.21% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £480 - £460
25th Percentile £488 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -30.00% +0.20%
75th Percentile £550 - £700
90th Percentile £565 - £820
South East median daily rate £615 £550 £608
% change year-on-year +11.82% -9.47% +21.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 267 484 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 89.60% 82.45% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 352 436
10th Percentile £188 £213 £198
25th Percentile £280 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -2.68% +2.75%
75th Percentile £544 £619 £625
90th Percentile £659 £700 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 55 33
10th Percentile £20.63 £11.71 £32.10
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £26.33 £20.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% -54.44% +87.50%
75th Percentile £40.98 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £63.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in Surrey

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in Surrey

Strategic Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 1 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
Reigate - 1 £500 - 2
Woking - 1 £550 - 19
Strategic Thinking
South East

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Akamai
2 1 (33.33%) Asana
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Nutanix
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) QlikView
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) BCP
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Dell KACE
2 1 (33.33%) Meraki
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (33.33%) Ubiquiti