Creative Thinking Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Creative Thinking
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Creative Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.41% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,043 546 850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.49% 92.86% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 342 510
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £382 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £579
90th Percentile £663 £619 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 14 38
10th Percentile £14.25 - £12.03
25th Percentile £18.50 - £12.15
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £13.02
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% +70.11% -31.50%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.10 £15.25
90th Percentile £49.97 £34.37 £53.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Creative Thinking job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Creative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 June 2026. 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
Leeds - 4 £450 - 2
Bradford - 1 - -
Creative Thinking
Yorkshire

Creative Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Figma
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) Miro
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Designer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Service Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (20.00%) Behavioural Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Business Process Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (20.00%) Human-Centred Design
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (20.00%) Service Design
2 1 (20.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform