Creative Thinking Contracts in the West Midlands

Creative Thinking
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Creative Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Creative Thinking 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 96 107 114
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 +54
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 1 4 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.074% 0.21% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.084% 0.24% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 12
10th Percentile - £243 £428
25th Percentile - £288 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £375 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -28.57% -
75th Percentile - £463 £688
90th Percentile - £508 -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the West Midlands

Creative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Creative Thinking in the West Midlands

Creative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Creative Thinking in the West Midlands

Creative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region 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
Warwickshire - 1 - - 4
Creative Thinking
England

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Edge Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Siemens