Thought Leadership Contracts in the UK excluding London

Thought Leadership
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Thought Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 339 366
Rank change year-on-year +46 +27 +20
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 50 48 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.24% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.28% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 34 40
10th Percentile £463 £363 £412
25th Percentile £500 £441 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £559 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -12.28% +2.00%
75th Percentile £619 £644 £706
90th Percentile £684 £671 £808
UK median daily rate £550 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% -14.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £23.27 £72.00
25th Percentile £45.50 £32.89 £74.25
Median hourly rate £49.00 £48.93 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% -37.28% -
75th Percentile £52.50 £64.96 £84.00
90th Percentile - £74.59 £87.60
UK median hourly rate £49.00 £49.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year -1.01% -36.54% +136.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Thought Leadership 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 11,601 17,153 20,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.50% 84.38% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,223 10,226 14,391
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 837 2,053 1,276
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.31 £10.93
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.25 £15.40
Median hourly rate £25.43 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.08% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.82 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -22.48% +0.29% +41.73%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in the UK excluding London

Thought Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Thought Leadership in the UK excluding London

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Thought Leadership in the UK excluding London

Thought Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Thought Leadership in the UK excluding London

Thought Leadership
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 Thought Leadership within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
South West +55 15 £525 +10.53% 47
South East +52 11 £550 +3.29% 251
North of England +11 9 £613 +6.24% 167
Midlands +10 6 £500 -16.67% 99
Scotland +9 6 £572 +47.61% 54
West Midlands +13 5 £500 -16.67% 70
North West +2 5 £613 +6.24% 93
Yorkshire +17 4 £606 - 51
East of England +26 3 £465 - 44
Thought Leadership
UK

Thought Leadership
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 3 (6.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.00%) Apache
2 2 (4.00%) nginx
3 1 (2.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.00%) CMS
3 1 (2.00%) Headless CMS
3 1 (2.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.00%) PaaS
1 9 (18.00%) SaaS
2 4 (8.00%) Snowflake
3 3 (6.00%) AWS
3 3 (6.00%) Matillion
4 2 (4.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (2.00%) Azure
5 1 (2.00%) ChatGPT
5 1 (2.00%) dbt
5 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.00%) GCP
5 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.00%) PBX
1 9 (18.00%) VoIP
2 2 (4.00%) DNS
3 1 (2.00%) 4G
3 1 (2.00%) 5G
3 1 (2.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.00%) Network Security
3 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Big Data
1 4 (8.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.00%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.00%) Data Vault
3 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.00%) HBase
3 1 (2.00%) Metadata
3 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.00%) Pentaho
3 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.00%) Power BI
3 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (4.00%) Git
3 1 (2.00%) ERwin
General
1 13 (26.00%) Telecoms
2 10 (20.00%) Finance
2 10 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Back Office
4 3 (6.00%) Marketing
5 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) Architect
2 7 (14.00%) Senior
3 6 (12.00%) Applications Architect
3 6 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (10.00%) Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) ServiceNow Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Automation Architect
7 2 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Project Office Support
7 2 (4.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Snowflake Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) BSS Architect
8 1 (2.00%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (2.00%) IT Analyst
8 1 (2.00%) SAPUI5 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) XML
2 4 (8.00%) JSON
2 4 (8.00%) REST
2 4 (8.00%) SOAP
2 4 (8.00%) Web Services
3 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.00%) YAML
4 1 (2.00%) CSS
4 1 (2.00%) HTML
4 1 (2.00%) HTML5
4 1 (2.00%) JSR 170
4 1 (2.00%) Kafka
4 1 (2.00%) Next.js
4 1 (2.00%) Node.js
4 1 (2.00%) OSGi
4 1 (2.00%) React
4 1 (2.00%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (2.00%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Blackberry
1 8 (16.00%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (12.00%) Blockchain
2 6 (12.00%) Data Structures
2 6 (12.00%) IoT
3 3 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.00%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.00%) EPoS
5 1 (2.00%) Learning Management System
5 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 17 (34.00%) Migration
3 15 (30.00%) Agile
4 14 (28.00%) Cost Reduction
4 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (24.00%) Customer Requirements
6 10 (20.00%) DevOps
6 10 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
6 10 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (18.00%) Commercial Awareness
7 9 (18.00%) Machine Learning
7 9 (18.00%) Mentoring
7 9 (18.00%) Product Roadmap
7 9 (18.00%) Project Planning
7 9 (18.00%) Service Design
8 8 (16.00%) Analytics
8 8 (16.00%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (16.00%) Validation
9 7 (14.00%) Project Management
10 6 (12.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (4.00%) Java
2 2 (4.00%) Python
3 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.00%) DV Cleared
2 13 (26.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.00%) CCNP
3 8 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (16.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (6.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.00%) IIBA
5 1 (2.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.00%) Docker
3 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.00%) Terraform
2 2 (4.00%) Ansible
2 2 (4.00%) Grafana
2 2 (4.00%) HAProxy
2 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (18.00%) Cisco
1 9 (18.00%) Ericsson
1 9 (18.00%) F5
1 9 (18.00%) Juniper
1 9 (18.00%) Nokia
1 9 (18.00%) Palo Alto
1 9 (18.00%) VMware
2 8 (16.00%) Avaya
2 8 (16.00%) Ribbon
3 4 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.00%) Fujitsu
5 1 (2.00%) Adobe
5 1 (2.00%) BT
5 1 (2.00%) Databricks
5 1 (2.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.00%) Informatica
5 1 (2.00%) Openreach
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.00%) Virgin Media