Thought Leadership Contracts in the Thames Valley

Thought Leadership
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 138 108
Rank change year-on-year +44 -30 +31
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 11 4 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.73% 0.15% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.17% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 18
10th Percentile - £482 £406
25th Percentile - £529 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £615 £613
Median % change year-on-year - +0.41% +3.46%
75th Percentile - £649 £797
90th Percentile - £665 £800
South East median daily rate £550 £495 £613
% change year-on-year +11.11% -19.18% +4.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,401 2,338 2,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.84% 87.08% 91.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 1,309 1,850
10th Percentile £300 £213 £322
25th Percentile £413 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £65.00 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in the Thames Valley

Thought Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Thought Leadership 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 Thought Leadership in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Thought Leadership in the Thames Valley

Thought Leadership
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 Thought Leadership within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Berkshire +35 11 - - 24
Thought Leadership
South East

Thought Leadership
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Appian
General
1 6 (54.55%) Telecoms
2 3 (27.27%) Back Office
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%) Product Owner
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 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) EPoS
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Roadmaps
2 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
3 4 (36.36%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 3 (27.27%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (27.27%) Order Management
4 3 (27.27%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (18.18%) B2B
5 2 (18.18%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (18.18%) Coaching
5 2 (18.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Product Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Six Sigma
5 2 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Blue Prism
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco
1 2 (18.18%) Nokia
1 2 (18.18%) Rakuten
2 1 (9.09%) BT
2 1 (9.09%) Openreach
2 1 (9.09%) Virgin Media