Systems Thinking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Systems Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Systems Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Systems Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 378 412
Rank change year-on-year +65 +34 +34
Contract jobs citing Systems Thinking 17 17 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.084% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.100% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 11
10th Percentile £409 £323 £409
25th Percentile £444 £353 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £547 £581
90th Percentile £755 £581 £619
UK median daily rate £550 £505 £575
% change year-on-year +8.91% -12.17% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Median hourly rate - £56.49 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -19.30% +25.36%
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £53.25 £67.50
% change year-on-year -31.45% -21.12% +11.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Systems Thinking 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 11,596 17,041 20,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.69% 84.15% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,235 10,189 14,096
10th Percentile £231 £250 £259
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,063 1,256
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.73
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

Systems Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Thinking in the UK excluding London

Systems Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Thinking in the UK excluding London

Systems Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Thinking in the UK excluding London

Systems Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Thinking in the UK excluding London

Systems 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 Systems Thinking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
Scotland +16 10 £463 +1.76% 14
North of England +14 3 £725 +48.72% 84
South East +46 2 £575 -13.21% 102
South West +34 2 £600 - 64
North West +9 2 £750 +57.89% 53
Yorkshire +9 1 £700 +24.44% 21
Systems Thinking
UK

Systems 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 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Tableau
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
1 9 (52.94%) Public Sector
2 8 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Local Government
4 2 (11.76%) Tech for Good
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Analyst
2 6 (35.29%) Architect
2 6 (35.29%) Business Analyst
2 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 2 (11.76%) Lead
6 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Designer
6 1 (5.88%) Programme Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Data Centre
1 6 (35.29%) Replication
2 5 (29.41%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) HPUX
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
1 6 (35.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (35.29%) Solaris
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Agile
2 6 (35.29%) Analytical Thinking
2 6 (35.29%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (35.29%) DevOps
2 6 (35.29%) DevSecOps
2 6 (35.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (35.29%) High Availability
2 6 (35.29%) Lean UX
2 6 (35.29%) Six Sigma
2 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) User Experience
3 5 (29.41%) ITSM
3 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
3 5 (29.41%) Service Management
3 5 (29.41%) Target Operating Model
3 5 (29.41%) Value Proposition
3 5 (29.41%) Wardley Maps
3 5 (29.41%) Wireframes
4 4 (23.53%) Minimum Viable Product
4 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Python
1 1 (5.88%) R
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) IIBA
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) IBM
1 6 (35.29%) Sun
2 5 (29.41%) Unisys
3 1 (5.88%) HP