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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 111 114
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +38
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Thought Leadership 8 14 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.48% 0.62% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.73% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 13
10th Percentile £390 - £450
25th Percentile £413 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -43.75% +28.00%
75th Percentile £611 - £875
90th Percentile £707 - -
South East median daily rate £515 £438 £800
% change year-on-year +17.60% -45.31% +28.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,511 1,923 2,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.35% 84.86% 90.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 1,090 1,699
10th Percentile £300 £265 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £524
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.10% +4.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £517 £520
% change year-on-year -3.34% -0.53% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 103 84
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.90 £16.30
25th Percentile £15.12 £24.25 £24.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.05 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.67% +16.09% +156.41%
75th Percentile £40.65 £68.59 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.10 £85.99 £74.94
South East median hourly rate £23.00 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.90% +14.70% +80.31%

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

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Thought Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Thought Leadership

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Thought Leadership in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Thought Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Thought Leadership

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DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +12 7 £599 +33.06% 44
Buckinghamshire - 1 £375 - 2
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 1 (12.50%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) PaaS
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
1 1 (12.50%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Robot Framework
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Back Office
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) BSS Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Head of Development
3 1 (12.50%) OSS Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Procurement Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Supply Chain Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Jinja
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) NETCONF
1 1 (12.50%) XML
1 1 (12.50%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (12.50%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Roadmaps
2 5 (62.50%) Technology Roadmap
3 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (37.50%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Coaching
5 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
5 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (25.00%) IT Strategy
5 2 (25.00%) ITIL
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
5 2 (25.00%) Workflow
6 1 (12.50%) B2B
6 1 (12.50%) ERP
6 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
6 1 (12.50%) RUP
6 1 (12.50%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) BT
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco
1 1 (12.50%) Openreach
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
1 1 (12.50%) TIBCO
1 1 (12.50%) Veracode
1 1 (12.50%) Virgin Media
1 1 (12.50%) webMethods
1 1 (12.50%) Workday