Strategic Thinking Contracts in West Sussex

Strategic Thinking
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex requiring Strategic Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 8 0 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 5.44% - 5.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% - 6.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 15
10th Percentile £544 - £675
25th Percentile £610 - £677
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 - £678
Median % change year-on-year - - +35.60%
75th Percentile £630 - -
90th Percentile £632 - £695
South East median daily rate £615 £550 £615
% change year-on-year +11.82% -10.57% +23.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

Strategic 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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 128 237 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 87.07% 91.15% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 173 199
10th Percentile £218 £303 £181
25th Percentile £350 £400 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% -7.22% +4.30%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £600
90th Percentile £635 £588 £690
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 8
10th Percentile £15.39 £13.63 £18.74
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.20 -
Median hourly rate £18.82 £21.50 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year -12.47% -2.98% -59.15%
75th Percentile £36.25 £22.25 £22.40
90th Percentile £81.15 £28.05 £24.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Job postings citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in West Sussex

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in West Sussex.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in West Sussex

Strategic Thinking
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Thinking within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 2 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
Worthing - 8 £623 - 2
Strategic Thinking
South East

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 6 (75.00%) NetWeaver
1 6 (75.00%) SAP EP
Business Applications
1 6 (75.00%) SAP CRM
2 2 (25.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) SuccessFactors
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
1 2 (25.00%) Qlik Sense
General
1 8 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Architect
1 6 (75.00%) SAP Architect
1 6 (75.00%) SAP Technical Architect
1 6 (75.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Report Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) SAP Fiori
1 6 (75.00%) SAP PI
1 6 (75.00%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Collaborative Working
1 6 (75.00%) CRM
1 6 (75.00%) ERP
1 6 (75.00%) Technical Architecture
2 5 (62.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) ABAP
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Ariba
1 6 (75.00%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Alteryx