Ideation Sessions Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Ideation Sessions (Ideation Workshops)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ideation Sessions skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 345 -
Rank change year-on-year -43 - -
Contract jobs citing Ideation Sessions 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.022% 0.013% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.015% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £404 £516 -
25th Percentile £410 £522 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% - -
75th Percentile £522 £547 -
90th Percentile £644 £549 -
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £632
% change year-on-year +2.33% -14.89% +26.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Ideation Sessions 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,701 12,950 17,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.65% 87.28% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,596 7,620 11,036
10th Percentile £220 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,760 747 1,225
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.54 £31.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.28% -30.00% +40.63%
75th Percentile £50.00 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +27.14%

Ideation Sessions
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ideation Sessions relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Ideation Sessions job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Ideation Sessions
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ideation Sessions.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ideation Sessions

Ideation Sessions
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ideation Sessions in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ideation Sessions in the UK excluding London

Ideation Sessions
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 Ideation Sessions within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
East of England - 3 £427 -
North of England - 1 £650 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £650 -
Ideation Sessions
UK

Ideation Sessions
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Designer
1 3 (75.00%) Product Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Data Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Product Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Business Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Data Mapping
1 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Journey Map
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
1 3 (75.00%) User Research
1 3 (75.00%) User Stories
1 3 (75.00%) Validation
1 3 (75.00%) Wireframes
2 2 (50.00%) Business Process Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (50.00%) User Journey Map
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Conceptual Models
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GMP
1 2 (50.00%) GxP
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft