Innovative Thinking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Innovative 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 Innovative Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Innovative Thinking over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 404 437
Rank change year-on-year +26 +33 -56
Contract jobs citing Innovative Thinking 18 43 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.088% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.20% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 46
10th Percentile £206 £205 £126
25th Percentile £272 £488 £154
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.52% +5.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £530 £584 £619
90th Percentile £683 £700 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £561
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.46% +27.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £18.45 £11.10
25th Percentile - £25.13 £12.00
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year - +158.62% -21.62%
75th Percentile - £39.38 £16.50
90th Percentile - £39.75 -
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £37.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year -48.00% +158.62% -21.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Innovative 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 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £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 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK excluding London

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK excluding London

Innovative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Innovative Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Innovative Thinking in the UK excluding London

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK excluding London

Innovative 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 Innovative Thinking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Midlands +35 7 £325 - 22
Scotland +38 5 £200 -63.47% 15
West Midlands +22 5 £300 - 15
South East +15 4 £508 -7.73% 45
North of England +27 2 £725 +38.10% 33
East Midlands +24 2 £488 - 7
North West +14 2 £725 - 27
Innovative Thinking
UK

Innovative 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:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) IaaS
3 3 (16.67%) iPaaS
3 3 (16.67%) PaaS
3 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) LAN
1 3 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (11.11%) Data Mining
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
1 2 (11.11%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle APEX
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Local Government
4 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Technical Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Business Change Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Business Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Change Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
1 3 (16.67%) J2EE
1 3 (16.67%) Web Services
2 2 (11.11%) Middleware
3 1 (5.56%) CSS
3 1 (5.56%) Dask
3 1 (5.56%) Flask
3 1 (5.56%) jQuery
3 1 (5.56%) Matplotlib
3 1 (5.56%) NumPy
3 1 (5.56%) Pandas
3 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 3 (16.67%) N-Tier
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (11.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (22.22%) Analytics
4 4 (22.22%) Data Analytics
4 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (16.67%) Architecture Governance
5 3 (16.67%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (16.67%) High Availability
5 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) Project Management
5 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 3 (16.67%) SOA
5 3 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
5 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 3 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) HNC
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
1 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Ariba
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow