Thought Leadership Contracts in the West Midlands

Thought Leadership
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Thought Leadership skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Thought Leadership over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 106 129
Rank change year-on-year +16 +23 +39
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 5 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.37% 0.36% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.43% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile - £455 £477
25th Percentile - £516 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile - £725 £794
90th Percentile £523 £860 £918
England median daily rate £550 £577 £595
% change year-on-year -4.60% -3.11% -9.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Thought Leadership 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 1,182 1,619 2,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.27% 84.06% 88.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 777 1,076 1,429
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 114 49
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.40
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.71% +21.62% +9.39%
75th Percentile £24.42 £40.38 £27.13
90th Percentile £37.72 £58.00 £48.75
England median hourly rate £29.15 £36.33 £36.40
% change year-on-year -19.76% -0.18% +49.47%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in the West Midlands

Thought Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Thought Leadership in the West Midlands

Thought Leadership
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 Thought Leadership within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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 0 4 £500 -
Birmingham +13 1 £525 -20.90% 32
Thought Leadership
England

Thought Leadership
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:

General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Applications Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Blockchain
1 4 (80.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (80.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Architectural Design
2 4 (80.00%) Cost Reduction
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Interface Catalogue
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Project Planning
2 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (80.00%) SOA
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared