Strategic Thinking Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 246 333 359
Rank change year-on-year +87 +26 -48
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 144 114 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.48% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.53% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 85 110
10th Percentile £469 £413 £427
25th Percentile £537 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £552 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% -8.00% +5.73%
75th Percentile £674 £678 £688
90th Percentile £768 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £579 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -3.58% - +8.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 4
10th Percentile - - £23.30
25th Percentile £67.50 £21.25 £27.77
Median hourly rate £70.00 £22.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +211.11% -57.94% +22.29%
75th Percentile £72.50 £23.75 £82.24
90th Percentile - - £85.83
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £22.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year +211.11% -48.28% +10.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Strategic 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 17,480 21,395 27,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.68% 89.58% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,444 14,842 19,202
10th Percentile £250 £256 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
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 2,054 1,309 1,355
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London

Strategic 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 Strategic Thinking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
South West +77 68 £588 +2.17% 33
North of England +21 25 £636 +10.52% 91
South East -4 22 £550 -10.57% 58
North West +30 20 £600 -4.00% 50
Scotland +39 13 £646 +23.05% 33
Midlands +34 13 £600 +12.94% 49
West Midlands +24 12 £600 +14.29% 28
North East +18 2 £775 +10.71% 17
Yorkshire +9 2 - - 28
East Midlands +17 1 £475 -24.00% 21
East of England +2 1 - - 24
Northern Ireland - 1 £513 - 6
Wales - 1 £450 - 4
Strategic Thinking
UK

Strategic 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 (2.78%) Confluence
2 3 (2.08%) CMS
2 3 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.39%) nginx
3 2 (1.39%) Traefik
Applications
1 10 (6.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 6 (4.17%) Adobe After Effects
4 6 (4.17%) Adobe Premiere
4 6 (4.17%) CINEMA 4D
5 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.69%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.69%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.69%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) SAP CO
1 2 (1.39%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.39%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.39%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.03%) Azure
2 8 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.78%) AWS
3 4 (2.78%) GCP
3 4 (2.78%) IaaS
3 4 (2.78%) PaaS
4 3 (2.08%) iPaaS
4 3 (2.08%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.39%) SaaS
5 2 (1.39%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (1.39%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.69%) BigCommerce
6 1 (0.69%) Miro
6 1 (0.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.86%) LAN
1 7 (4.86%) WAN
2 5 (3.47%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.78%) Unified Communications
3 4 (2.78%) VSAN
4 3 (2.08%) Skype
5 2 (1.39%) DNS
5 2 (1.39%) Network Security
5 2 (1.39%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.39%) Wireless
6 1 (0.69%) Firewall
6 1 (0.69%) Internet
6 1 (0.69%) LTE
6 1 (0.69%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (4.17%) Metadata
2 6 (4.17%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (2.08%) Power BI
3 3 (2.08%) Tableau
4 1 (0.69%) DTS
Development Applications
1 8 (5.56%) JIRA
2 2 (1.39%) Git
2 2 (1.39%) GitLab
2 2 (1.39%) Jenkins
General
1 58 (40.28%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.97%) Telecoms
3 21 (14.58%) Public Sector
4 18 (12.50%) Marketing
5 17 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (11.11%) Finance
7 8 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.78%) Retail
9 3 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.08%) Police
10 2 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.39%) Military
10 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Banking
11 1 (0.69%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.69%) Local Government
11 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 86 (59.72%) Architect
2 60 (41.67%) Lead
3 50 (34.72%) Lead Architect
4 25 (17.36%) Network Architect
5 21 (14.58%) Systems Architect
6 15 (10.42%) Designer
7 11 (7.64%) Technical Architect
8 9 (6.25%) Domain Architect
9 8 (5.56%) Creative Designer
9 8 (5.56%) Project Manager
10 7 (4.86%) Consultant
10 7 (4.86%) Data Architect
10 7 (4.86%) Senior
11 5 (3.47%) Lead Designer
11 5 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (2.78%) Animator
12 4 (2.78%) Creative Director
12 4 (2.78%) Video Editor
13 3 (2.08%) Business Manager
13 3 (2.08%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.08%) .NET
1 3 (2.08%) J2EE
1 3 (2.08%) Web Services
2 2 (1.39%) cloud-init
2 2 (1.39%) HTML
3 1 (0.69%) CSS
3 1 (0.69%) Flutter
3 1 (0.69%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.69%) JSON
3 1 (0.69%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.69%) Middleware
3 1 (0.69%) REST
3 1 (0.69%) RESTful
3 1 (0.69%) SOAP
3 1 (0.69%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.97%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (6.94%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.17%) Motion Graphics
4 4 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.78%) Animation
4 4 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.78%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 3 (2.08%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.08%) NHS
5 3 (2.08%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.39%) Clustering
6 2 (1.39%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.39%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.39%) Photography
6 2 (1.39%) PKI
6 2 (1.39%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.39%) CentOS
1 2 (1.39%) Linux
1 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.69%) Android
2 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (26.39%) Project Management
1 38 (26.39%) Stakeholder Management
2 25 (17.36%) Identity Access Management
2 25 (17.36%) Network Management
3 24 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (16.67%) Digital Identity
4 21 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (13.89%) Systems Engineering
6 17 (11.81%) Migration
7 16 (11.11%) Agile
7 16 (11.11%) IT Strategy
8 15 (10.42%) Storytelling
9 14 (9.72%) TOGAF
10 13 (9.03%) Technology Strategy
11 12 (8.33%) Roadmaps
12 11 (7.64%) Coaching
12 11 (7.64%) Enterprise Architecture
13 10 (6.94%) Data Migration
13 10 (6.94%) Project Delivery
14 9 (6.25%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.39%) Bash
1 2 (1.39%) Go
1 2 (1.39%) Python
1 2 (1.39%) Ruby
2 1 (0.69%) Apex Code
2 1 (0.69%) Dart
Qualifications
1 70 (48.61%) Security Cleared
2 58 (40.28%) SC Cleared
3 43 (29.86%) Degree
4 12 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.47%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.69%) HND
7 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.67%) JSP 440
2 8 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.08%) SLA
4 2 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.39%) NCSC
4 2 (1.39%) QA
5 1 (0.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.78%) vSphere
4 3 (2.08%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.78%) vCenter Server
1 4 (2.78%) VxRail
2 2 (1.39%) Ansible
2 2 (1.39%) Consul
2 2 (1.39%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (1.39%) Graphite
2 2 (1.39%) HAProxy
2 2 (1.39%) Istio
2 2 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.39%) linkerd
2 2 (1.39%) Packer
2 2 (1.39%) Podman
2 2 (1.39%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.39%) Puppet
2 2 (1.39%) Terraform
2 2 (1.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.94%) Adobe
3 9 (6.25%) VMware
4 6 (4.17%) Remedy
5 4 (2.78%) Dell
6 3 (2.08%) Cisco
6 3 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.08%) SAP
6 3 (2.08%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.39%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.39%) Splunk
8 1 (0.69%) Aruba
8 1 (0.69%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.69%) F5
8 1 (0.69%) Google
8 1 (0.69%) Meraki
8 1 (0.69%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.69%) Workday