Thought Leadership Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Thought Leadership
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Thought Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 46 71
Rank change year-on-year -21 +25 -
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 5 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.80% 2.04% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 2.34% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £869 - -
25th Percentile £898 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £992 - £450
75th Percentile £1,038 - £475
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £850 £613 £475
% change year-on-year +38.78% +28.95% -50.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 384 669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 80.19% 87.07% 85.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 256 474
10th Percentile £400 £313 £300
25th Percentile £512 £439 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £713 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 3 16
10th Percentile £12.50 £22.23 £14.36
25th Percentile £14.40 £36.40 £14.54
Median hourly rate £22.13 £60.00 £31.95
Median % change year-on-year -63.11% +87.79% -51.22%
75th Percentile £24.50 - £53.13
90th Percentile £25.15 - £73.25
South West median hourly rate £38.94 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -40.09% +8.33% -2.44%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Thought Leadership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Thought Leadership job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Thought Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Thought Leadership

Thought Leadership
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Salisbury - 5 £992 - 1
Thought Leadership
South West

Thought Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Military
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Coaching
1 5 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 5 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 5 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 5 (100.00%) Data Management
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
1 5 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Storytelling
1 5 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 5 (100.00%) Systems Thinking
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Security
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared