Strategic Thinking Contracts in West Yorkshire

Strategic Thinking
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 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 52 75 92
Rank change year-on-year +23 +17 +20
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 10 2 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.82% 0.20% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 0.23% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 15
10th Percentile £313 - £468
25th Percentile £356 - £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.15%
75th Percentile £619 - £600
90th Percentile £720 - £695
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £84.25 - -
25th Percentile £84.35 - -
Median hourly rate £91.05 - -
75th Percentile £98.08 - -
90th Percentile £98.36 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.05 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in West Yorkshire

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Thinking in West Yorkshire

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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 Strategic Thinking within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds +10 9 £400 - 17
Strategic Thinking
Yorkshire

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (10.00%) nginx
1 1 (10.00%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Data Hub
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Scala Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Information Assurance Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Change Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Scala Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Akka
1 3 (30.00%) Play Framework
2 2 (20.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (10.00%) cloud-init
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) CentOS
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) Change Management
4 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (30.00%) API Development
5 3 (30.00%) API Integration
5 3 (30.00%) BDD
5 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
5 3 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (30.00%) Functional Programming
5 3 (30.00%) Microservices
5 3 (30.00%) Portfolio Management
5 3 (30.00%) PRINCE2
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (30.00%) TDD
5 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
6 2 (20.00%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Scala
2 2 (20.00%) Apex Code
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (10.00%) PMP
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) PMO
2 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (10.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kibana
2 1 (10.00%) Consul
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (10.00%) Istio
2 1 (10.00%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) linkerd
2 1 (10.00%) Packer
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Rancher
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) Apple
2 1 (10.00%) ESET
2 1 (10.00%) Okta
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk