Hybrid/Remote Creative Strategy Contract Job Trends

Creative Strategies
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Creative Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 327 391
Rank change year-on-year +17 +64 +211
Contract jobs citing Creative Strategy 2 4 9
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.021% 0.032% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.036% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £124 £185 £306
25th Percentile £211 £238 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £325 £470
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -30.78% -14.95%
75th Percentile £504 £413 £851
90th Percentile £592 £465 £950
UK median daily rate £638 £325 £520
% change year-on-year +96.15% -37.50% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Creative Strategy falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,819 10,981 17,120
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.93% 88.08% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,854 6,919 12,040
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 256 414
10th Percentile £13.25 £19.45 £18.49
25th Percentile £20.50 £28.34 £26.24
Median hourly rate £35.95 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.41% -18.10% +3.96%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -37.13% -9.60% +37.21%

Creative Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Creative Strategy and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Creative Strategy job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Creative Strategy
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Creative Strategy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Creative Strategy

Creative Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Creative Strategy over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Creative Strategy daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Creative Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (50.00%) Local Government
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Application Rationalisation
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Acquisition
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Product Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Service Design
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Target Operating Model