Creative Thinking Contracts in the Thames Valley

Creative Thinking
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Creative Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Creative Thinking over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 110 153
Rank change year-on-year -18 +43 -31
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 12 41 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.45% 1.40% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 1.52% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 29 17
10th Percentile £448 £525 £130
25th Percentile £494 £575 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £638 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +50.00% +3.03%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £538
90th Percentile £625 £786 £620
South East median daily rate £519 £619 £448
% change year-on-year -16.16% +38.11% +8.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £16.00 £15.21 -
% change year-on-year +5.19% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Creative Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,337 2,689 3,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.10% 91.56% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,302 1,867 2,096
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 87
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.72% -18.36%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Creative Thinking in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Thinking in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Creative Thinking in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Berkshire -7 9 £519 -5.68% 9
Buckinghamshire +8 2 £600 -7.69% 9
Oxfordshire -4 1 - - 2
Creative Thinking
South East

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) SaaS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure API Management
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (16.67%) PaaS
2 2 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) ChatGPT
3 1 (8.33%) Figma
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) 3G
1 1 (8.33%) 4G
1 1 (8.33%) 5G
1 1 (8.33%) Broadband
1 1 (8.33%) DHCP
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) DSL
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) IP Telephony
1 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Legal
2 3 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (16.67%) Marketing
3 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Developer
2 2 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Author
3 1 (8.33%) Communications Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Procurement Officer
3 1 (8.33%) Product Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Product Owner
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Product Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Support Officer
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) OpenAPI
1 2 (16.67%) Swagger
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Graphic Design
3 1 (8.33%) Animation
3 1 (8.33%) Blog
3 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (8.33%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Management
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) API Management
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) OO
5 2 (16.67%) SOLID
5 2 (16.67%) TDD
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (8.33%) B2B
6 1 (8.33%) Competitor Analysis
6 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
6 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce
6 1 (8.33%) Project Management
6 1 (8.33%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) C#
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CSPO
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Citrix
2 3 (25.00%) HP
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe