Thought Leadership Contracts

Thought Leadership
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Thought Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 454 406 403
Rank change year-on-year -48 -3 +28
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 132 342 526
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.57% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.63% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 166 315
10th Percentile £320 £406 £451
25th Percentile £431 £493 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £700 £722 £763
90th Percentile £775 £861 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £559 £625 £611
% change year-on-year -10.52% +2.25% +13.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £40.15 £71.25 £30.25
25th Percentile £45.25 £72.38 £31.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £75.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.46% +130.53% -6.11%
75th Percentile £58.75 £77.38 £39.94
90th Percentile £72.10 £77.75 £44.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.00 £75.50 -
% change year-on-year +7.28% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Thought Leadership 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 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Thought Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership.

Daily rate trend for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership.

Hourly rate trend for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Thought Leadership over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 April 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 -26 113 £588 -2.08% 311
London -8 66 £588 -2.08% 184
UK excluding London +16 48 £559 -10.52% 123
Work from Home +27 39 £600 +3.67% 146
Midlands +33 16 £600 +13.74% 11
North of England +41 14 £577 -5.88% 35
North West +25 11 £577 +9.81% 18
East Midlands +24 8 £625 +38.89% 3
West Midlands +28 7 £600 +4.35% 8
South East -26 7 £495 -17.50% 39
Scotland +20 6 £388 -44.64% 8
Yorkshire +26 3 - - 13
South West +14 3 £475 -26.92% 12
East of England +9 1 - - 17
Northern Ireland - 1 £338 - 4

Thought Leadership
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 7 (5.30%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.27%) CMS
3 2 (1.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.76%) Confluence
4 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (5.30%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.27%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.76%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.52%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.76%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.76%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.76%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 24 (18.18%) Azure
2 14 (10.61%) AWS
3 10 (7.58%) SaaS
4 9 (6.82%) Google Analytics
5 7 (5.30%) PaaS
6 6 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (3.79%) GCP
7 5 (3.79%) IaaS
7 5 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.79%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (3.03%) Slack
9 2 (1.52%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (1.52%) Canva
9 2 (1.52%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.52%) GitHub
9 2 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.52%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.79%) Firewall
2 4 (3.03%) LAN
3 3 (2.27%) WAN
4 2 (1.52%) Intranet
4 2 (1.52%) Multicast
4 2 (1.52%) Network Security
4 2 (1.52%) VPN
5 1 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.76%) DHCP
5 1 (0.76%) DNS
5 1 (0.76%) Internet
5 1 (0.76%) IPsec
5 1 (0.76%) SNMP
5 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.76%) VLAN
5 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.76%) Wireless
5 1 (0.76%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.79%) Big Data
2 3 (2.27%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.27%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.27%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.52%) DB2
3 2 (1.52%) MySQL
3 2 (1.52%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.52%) Power BI
3 2 (1.52%) SQLite
3 2 (1.52%) Tableau
4 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.76%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.76%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.76%) Looker
4 1 (0.76%) Metadata
4 1 (0.76%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (6.06%) JIRA
2 4 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.03%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (2.27%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.52%) GitLab
4 2 (1.52%) JUnit
4 2 (1.52%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.76%) Appium
5 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.76%) Darcs
5 1 (0.76%) Git
5 1 (0.76%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.76%) JMeter
5 1 (0.76%) LSMW
5 1 (0.76%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.76%) Postman
5 1 (0.76%) Selenium
5 1 (0.76%) Travis CI
General
1 51 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 43 (32.58%) Finance
3 25 (18.94%) Marketing
4 17 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.55%) Retail
7 5 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.27%) Advertising
9 3 (2.27%) Banking
9 3 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.27%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.52%) Law
11 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.76%) Front Office
11 1 (0.76%) Legal
11 1 (0.76%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 34 (25.76%) Architect
2 14 (10.61%) Consultant
2 14 (10.61%) Solutions Architect
3 11 (8.33%) Senior
4 10 (7.58%) Lead
5 8 (6.06%) Project Manager
6 7 (5.30%) Communications Manager
6 7 (5.30%) Marketing Manager
6 7 (5.30%) Technical Engineer
7 6 (4.55%) Analyst
7 6 (4.55%) AWS Architect
7 6 (4.55%) Security Architect
8 5 (3.79%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (3.79%) Senior Manager
9 4 (3.03%) Analytics Consultant
9 4 (3.03%) Applications Specialist
9 4 (3.03%) Azure Architect
9 4 (3.03%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.03%) Data Architect
9 4 (3.03%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.58%) .NET
2 3 (2.27%) CSS
2 3 (2.27%) HTML
2 3 (2.27%) jQuery
2 3 (2.27%) Kafka
2 3 (2.27%) REST
2 3 (2.27%) XML
3 2 (1.52%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.52%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (1.52%) LDAP
3 2 (1.52%) Node.js
3 2 (1.52%) React
3 2 (1.52%) RxJava
3 2 (1.52%) SOAP
3 2 (1.52%) Spring
3 2 (1.52%) Web Services
4 1 (0.76%) DOM
4 1 (0.76%) J2EE
4 1 (0.76%) Tapestry
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.58%) Self-Motivation
1 10 (7.58%) Social Media
2 6 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.79%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.03%) Video Editing
5 3 (2.27%) Blog
5 3 (2.27%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.27%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (2.27%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.52%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.52%) PKI
6 2 (1.52%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (0.76%) Digital Currency
7 1 (0.76%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.76%) Life Science
7 1 (0.76%) Photography
7 1 (0.76%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.76%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.55%) Unix
2 5 (3.79%) Windows
3 4 (3.03%) Solaris
3 4 (3.03%) VMS
4 1 (0.76%) Android
4 1 (0.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (22.73%) Agile
2 28 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (18.94%) Project Management
4 22 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (13.64%) Analytics
5 18 (13.64%) Roadmaps
6 17 (12.88%) Data Modelling
7 14 (10.61%) DevOps
7 14 (10.61%) Mentoring
8 13 (9.85%) Change Management
8 13 (9.85%) Computer Science
8 13 (9.85%) CRM
8 13 (9.85%) Software Engineering
9 12 (9.09%) CI/CD
9 12 (9.09%) Matrix Organization
10 11 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (8.33%) Use Case
10 11 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (7.58%) Logistics
11 10 (7.58%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 22 (16.67%) SQL
2 12 (9.09%) C#
3 10 (7.58%) Java
4 8 (6.06%) C++
5 7 (5.30%) PL/SQL
5 7 (5.30%) VB.NET
5 7 (5.30%) VBA
6 6 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.55%) Python
7 3 (2.27%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.52%) ABAP
8 2 (1.52%) Scala
8 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.76%) C
9 1 (0.76%) Go
9 1 (0.76%) PHP
9 1 (0.76%) Ruby
9 1 (0.76%) Rust
9 1 (0.76%) Swift
9 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (18.94%) Degree
2 13 (9.85%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.55%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.27%) PhD
7 2 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.76%) CCNA CyberOps
8 1 (0.76%) CCNP
8 1 (0.76%) CISA
8 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.76%) CISM
8 1 (0.76%) CISSP
8 1 (0.76%) MBA
8 1 (0.76%) PMP
8 1 (0.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.82%) QA
2 5 (3.79%) NIST
3 4 (3.03%) PMO
4 2 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.52%) SLA
5 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.76%) GxP
5 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.76%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.52%) Grafana
2 2 (1.52%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.52%) Terraform
3 1 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.76%) Ansible
3 1 (0.76%) Kibana
3 1 (0.76%) logstash
3 1 (0.76%) Nagios
3 1 (0.76%) OpenView
3 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.76%) Puppet
3 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.85%) Google
3 9 (6.82%) Databricks
4 8 (6.06%) Oracle
5 7 (5.30%) Avaloq
5 7 (5.30%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.30%) SAP
6 6 (4.55%) Cisco
7 3 (2.27%) Genesys
7 3 (2.27%) Informatica
7 3 (2.27%) Instagram
7 3 (2.27%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.27%) Twitter
8 2 (1.52%) Ariba
8 2 (1.52%) Ensighten
8 2 (1.52%) F5
8 2 (1.52%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.52%) Greenplum
8 2 (1.52%) Talend
8 2 (1.52%) Tealium