Creative Thinking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Creative Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 340 389
Rank change year-on-year +23 +49 -26
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 68 117 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.50% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.56% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 80 68
10th Percentile £373 £400 £318
25th Percentile £463 £450 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +22.22% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £520
90th Percentile £628 £688 £661
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 33
10th Percentile £12.38 £21.17 -
25th Percentile £18.81 £30.11 £15.90
Median hourly rate £45.01 £50.00 £16.93
Median % change year-on-year -9.99% +195.33% -20.33%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.50 £17.97
90th Percentile - £67.00 -
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £50.00 £16.93
% change year-on-year -61.00% +195.33% -23.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London

Creative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London

Creative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London

Creative Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Creative Thinking in the UK excluding London

Creative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
North of England +29 18 £575 +4.55% 42
South East -14 18 £519 -18.63% 41
South West +28 16 £600 +45.45% 28
North West +29 11 £613 +22.50% 21
Midlands +11 10 £488 -7.14% 19
Scotland +44 6 £550 +2.80% 8
Yorkshire +22 6 £388 -29.55% 16
East Midlands +20 6 £513 +13.89% 10
West Midlands +5 4 £375 -28.57% 9
East of England -4 4 £488 +1.56% 19
Northern Ireland +7 1 £513 +28.13% 1
Creative Thinking
UK

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.41%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.47%) CMS
3 1 (1.47%) EPiServer
Applications
1 8 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (10.29%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.41%) Adobe After Effects
3 3 (4.41%) Blender
3 3 (4.41%) Maya
3 3 (4.41%) Photoshop
4 2 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (1.47%) AutoCAD
5 1 (1.47%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.47%) Sketch
5 1 (1.47%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.29%) AWS
1 7 (10.29%) Azure
2 6 (8.82%) SaaS
3 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.94%) Azure API Management
5 2 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
5 2 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (2.94%) Figma
5 2 (2.94%) GCP
5 2 (2.94%) PaaS
5 2 (2.94%) Serverless
6 1 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.47%) IaaS
6 1 (1.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) Internet
2 3 (4.41%) NAS
2 3 (4.41%) SAN
3 1 (1.47%) 3G
3 1 (1.47%) 4G
3 1 (1.47%) 5G
3 1 (1.47%) Broadband
3 1 (1.47%) DHCP
3 1 (1.47%) DNS
3 1 (1.47%) DSL
3 1 (1.47%) Firewall
3 1 (1.47%) IP Telephony
3 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.88%) SAP HANA
2 3 (4.41%) Power BI
3 2 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.47%) DB2
4 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) JIRA
2 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.94%) Git
3 2 (2.94%) JUnit
3 2 (2.94%) Postman
3 2 (2.94%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (2.94%) Selenium
4 1 (1.47%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
3 11 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.71%) Legal
5 9 (13.24%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (10.29%) Finance
6 7 (10.29%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (7.35%) Law
7 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
8 4 (5.88%) Aerospace
8 4 (5.88%) Electronics
8 4 (5.88%) Marketing
9 3 (4.41%) Banking
9 3 (4.41%) Games
9 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.47%) Local Government
10 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.47%) Publishing
10 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (19.12%) Analyst
2 8 (11.76%) Senior
3 7 (10.29%) SAP Analyst
4 6 (8.82%) Developer
4 6 (8.82%) Integration Analyst
5 5 (7.35%) Lead
5 5 (7.35%) Test Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.88%) Business Integration Analyst
6 4 (5.88%) Integration Specialist
6 4 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Validation Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Verification Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Desktop Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Desktop Support
7 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Procurement Officer
7 3 (4.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) CSS
1 3 (4.41%) HTML
1 3 (4.41%) Swagger
1 3 (4.41%) Unreal Engine
2 2 (2.94%) OpenAPI
2 2 (2.94%) REST
3 1 (1.47%) .NET
3 1 (1.47%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.47%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.47%) HTML5
3 1 (1.47%) jQuery
3 1 (1.47%) JSON
3 1 (1.47%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.47%) Shiny
3 1 (1.47%) Spring
3 1 (1.47%) Visualforce
3 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.82%) Virtual Team
2 5 (7.35%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.35%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.41%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.41%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (4.41%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.41%) Graphic Design
3 3 (4.41%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.47%) Animation
4 1 (1.47%) Blog
4 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.47%) NHS
4 1 (1.47%) Social Media
4 1 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (45.59%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (27.94%) Agile
2 19 (27.94%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (17.65%) Business Analysis
4 10 (14.71%) Project Management
5 8 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (10.29%) Critical Thinking
6 7 (10.29%) Software Engineering
7 6 (8.82%) Data Protection
7 6 (8.82%) Decision-Making
7 6 (8.82%) DevOps
7 6 (8.82%) Validation
8 5 (7.35%) Data Strategy
8 5 (7.35%) Functional Testing
8 5 (7.35%) Non-Functional Testing
8 5 (7.35%) Performance Management
8 5 (7.35%) Scrum
8 5 (7.35%) Software Testing
8 5 (7.35%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.82%) JavaScript
2 5 (7.35%) Python
3 4 (5.88%) SQL
4 3 (4.41%) C#
5 2 (2.94%) C++
5 2 (2.94%) Java
6 1 (1.47%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.47%) R
6 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (22.06%) Degree
2 14 (20.59%) Security Cleared
3 8 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.35%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.88%) Chartered Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.47%) CBAP
7 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.47%) CSPO
7 1 (1.47%) ISEB
7 1 (1.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.47%) PMP
7 1 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) GDPR
1 5 (7.35%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (4.41%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (4.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (1.47%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 17 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.24%) SAP
3 6 (8.82%) Oracle
4 5 (7.35%) Adobe
5 3 (4.41%) Citrix
5 3 (4.41%) HP
5 3 (4.41%) VMware
6 1 (1.47%) BT
6 1 (1.47%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.47%) Qualtrics
6 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.47%) Workday