Ideation Sessions Contracts

Ideation Sessions (Ideation Workshops)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Ideation Sessions skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ideation Sessions over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 577 688
Rank change year-on-year +63 +111 +132
Contract jobs citing Ideation Sessions 6 5 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.011% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.013% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 10
10th Percentile £484 £544 £468
25th Percentile £509 £552 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £632 £573
Median % change year-on-year -12.91% +10.16% +23.95%
75th Percentile - £703 £630
90th Percentile - £709 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - £572
% change year-on-year - - +27.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Ideation Sessions
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ideation Sessions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ideation Sessions in the UK

Ideation Sessions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ideation Sessions.

Daily rate trend for Ideation Sessions in the UK

Ideation Sessions
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +56 4 £550 -12.91% 21
UK excluding London - 4 £550 - 2
Work from Home +42 3 - - 12
London +35 2 £485 -23.20% 20
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 -
South East - 1 £550 - 1

Ideation Sessions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (33.33%) CMS
1 2 (33.33%) EPiServer
1 2 (33.33%) Umbraco
1 2 (33.33%) WordPress
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Canva
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure API Management
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Figma
2 1 (16.67%) NuGet
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Axure RP
General
1 3 (50.00%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Publishing
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Automotive
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Content Editor
1 2 (33.33%) Designer
1 2 (33.33%) Digital Content Editor
1 2 (33.33%) Digital Editor
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Product Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Product Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Service Designer
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Developer
2 1 (16.67%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (16.67%) Sass
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 1 (16.67%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Freedom of Information
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (33.33%) Social Media
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Content Management
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (33.33%) Social Media Management
2 2 (33.33%) Social Media Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) User Stories
2 2 (33.33%) Wireframes
2 2 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Journey Map
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) User Research
3 1 (16.67%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Facebook
1 2 (33.33%) Instagram
1 2 (33.33%) Twitter
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk