Creative Thinking Contract Job Trends in West London

Creative Thinking
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Creative Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 31 44
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 +9
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.32% 0.47% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.57% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.45%
75th Percentile - - £578
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £560 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West London

Creative 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 277 176 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 87.94% 82.63% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 125 272
10th Percentile £204 £220 £200
25th Percentile £357 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £410 £515
Median % change year-on-year +10.37% -20.39% +0.49%
75th Percentile £588 £498 £600
90th Percentile £638 £588 £648
London median daily rate £526 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.45% -2.57% -4.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 22
10th Percentile £19.54 £20.20 £16.93
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.13 £31.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.93 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -59.42% -9.24%
75th Percentile £30.56 £28.63 £70.75
90th Percentile £37.88 £37.53 £84.00
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £32.69
% change year-on-year -17.81% +11.65% -15.64%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Creative Thinking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Creative Thinking job vacancy trend in West London

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Creative Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Creative Thinking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Thinking within the West London region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
Hounslow +1 1 - -
Creative Thinking
London

Creative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (100.00%) OmniGraffle
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (100.00%) NX-OS
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) BYOD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware