Innovative Thinking Contracts

Innovative Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 611 645
Rank change year-on-year +90 +34 -56
Contract jobs citing Innovative Thinking 58 83 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.16% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 47 110
10th Percentile £231 £365 £181
25th Percentile £396 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +32.95%
75th Percentile £650 £606 £650
90th Percentile £738 £680 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £390 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -25.71% +5.00% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile - £16.60 £10.90
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.50 £11.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £27.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +107.69% -29.73%
75th Percentile £20.75 £33.50 £15.00
90th Percentile - £37.40 £15.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £27.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year - +107.69% -29.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Innovative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Innovative Thinking.

Daily rate trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Innovative Thinking over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Innovative Thinking.

Hourly rate trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 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
England +96 51 £525 - 223
London +100 34 £550 +4.76% 81
UK excluding London +36 19 £390 -25.71% 167
Work from Home +83 16 £500 -4.76% 91
Midlands +18 7 £325 - 23
Scotland +42 5 £200 -63.64% 12
West Midlands +21 5 £300 - 14
South East +13 4 £508 -3.33% 48
North of England +28 2 £725 +38.10% 38
East Midlands +17 2 £488 - 9
North West +15 2 £725 - 29
South West +8 1 £575 - 16

Innovative Thinking
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 (3.45%) CMS
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.72%) JBoss
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.72%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.17%) Photoshop
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (3.45%) iTrent
3 1 (1.72%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 14 (24.14%) Azure
2 7 (12.07%) AWS
3 4 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.90%) GCP
3 4 (6.90%) IaaS
3 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (5.17%) iPaaS
4 3 (5.17%) PaaS
5 2 (3.45%) SaaS
6 1 (1.72%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.72%) dbt
6 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.72%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.72%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.72%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) LAN
1 3 (5.17%) WAN
2 1 (1.72%) 5G
2 1 (1.72%) DHCP
2 1 (1.72%) DNS
2 1 (1.72%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) LTE
2 1 (1.72%) Network Security
2 1 (1.72%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.72%) SAN
2 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.72%) VPN
2 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Power BI
1 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
2 2 (3.45%) Power Query
2 2 (3.45%) Tableau
3 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.72%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.72%) Looker
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.72%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 19 (32.76%) Finance
3 16 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (18.97%) Public Sector
5 10 (17.24%) Banking
5 10 (17.24%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (15.52%) Retail
7 5 (8.62%) Investment Banking
8 4 (6.90%) Marketing
9 3 (5.17%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (5.17%) German Language
9 3 (5.17%) Local Government
9 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
9 3 (5.17%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.72%) French Language
10 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.72%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (20.69%) Architect
2 9 (15.52%) Analyst
3 8 (13.79%) Senior
4 7 (12.07%) Consultant
5 4 (6.90%) Business Architect
5 4 (6.90%) Business Consultant
5 4 (6.90%) Developer
5 4 (6.90%) Technical Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Digital Product Owner
6 3 (5.17%) Product Owner
6 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Author
7 2 (3.45%) Designer
7 2 (3.45%) Finance Systems Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Product Owner
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Technical Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Service Desk Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) .NET
1 3 (5.17%) CSS
1 3 (5.17%) Flask
1 3 (5.17%) J2EE
1 3 (5.17%) React
1 3 (5.17%) Web Services
2 2 (3.45%) DOM
2 2 (3.45%) Express.js
2 2 (3.45%) HTML
2 2 (3.45%) jQuery
2 2 (3.45%) Middleware
2 2 (3.45%) Node.js
2 2 (3.45%) Pandas
2 2 (3.45%) REST
2 2 (3.45%) XML
3 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.72%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (1.72%) Kafka
3 1 (1.72%) Matplotlib
3 1 (1.72%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Digital Media
2 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.17%) Client/Server
3 3 (5.17%) N-Tier
4 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Windows
2 3 (5.17%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.45%) Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (53.45%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (25.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (24.14%) Agile
4 9 (15.52%) Creative Thinking
4 9 (15.52%) Roadmaps
4 9 (15.52%) Use Case
5 8 (13.79%) Analytics
5 8 (13.79%) Project Delivery
5 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (12.07%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (12.07%) Data Analytics
6 7 (12.07%) Decision-Making
7 6 (10.34%) CI/CD
7 6 (10.34%) DevOps
7 6 (10.34%) Scrum
8 5 (8.62%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (8.62%) Customer Engagement
8 5 (8.62%) Data Management
8 5 (8.62%) Target Operating Model
8 5 (8.62%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.62%) Python
2 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
2 4 (6.90%) SQL
3 2 (3.45%) Bicep
3 2 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (3.45%) PL/SQL
3 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) Degree
1 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
1 2 (3.45%) HNC
1 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Hyper-V
1 4 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.17%) Puppet
1 3 (5.17%) Terraform
2 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.45%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.72%) Ansible
3 1 (1.72%) Control-M
Vendors
1 14 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) Oracle
3 4 (6.90%) VMware
4 2 (3.45%) Adobe
4 2 (3.45%) Google
4 2 (3.45%) SAP
5 1 (1.72%) Ariba
5 1 (1.72%) BMC
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco
5 1 (1.72%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.72%) Databricks
5 1 (1.72%) IBM
5 1 (1.72%) Monetate
5 1 (1.72%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
265 Innovative Thinking jobs Nationwide