Hybrid/Remote Creative Thinking Contract Job Trends

Creative Thinking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Creative Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 292 334
Rank change year-on-year -10 +42 +79
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 16 24 57
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 0.20% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.22% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 33
10th Percentile £356 £401 £313
25th Percentile £399 £431 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.34% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £641 £589 £600
90th Percentile £740 £671 £655
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.50
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
75th Percentile - - £37.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £39.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +41.03% -44.29% +108.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,282 10,741 15,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.14% 88.53% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,142 6,773 10,840
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £724 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 222 384
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.58 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £41.59 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Creative Thinking job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Creative Thinking over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

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

Creative Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Creative Thinking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking
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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Acrobat
1 1 (6.25%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (6.25%) InDesign
1 1 (6.25%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Stack
2 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.25%) OCI
2 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) MQTT
1 1 (6.25%) NGFW
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
1 1 (6.25%) VXLAN
1 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) REST Assured
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Marketing
5 1 (6.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Analyst
1 4 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Business Systems Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Product Owner
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Scientist
4 1 (6.25%) Designer
4 1 (6.25%) Graphic Designer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Photoshop Designer
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (6.25%) Telephony Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) Reinsurance
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) IoT
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Life Science
4 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
4 1 (6.25%) PKI
4 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Strategic Thinking
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) User Stories
4 4 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (25.00%) Validation
5 3 (18.75%) Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) Coaching
5 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
5 3 (18.75%) Critical Thinking
5 3 (18.75%) Data Science
5 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 3 (18.75%) Scrum
5 3 (18.75%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (18.75%) Wireframes
6 2 (12.50%) AI
6 2 (12.50%) Data Governance
6 2 (12.50%) Data Management
6 2 (12.50%) Data Strategy
6 2 (12.50%) Objectives and Key Results
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Python
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Bicep
2 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe
2 1 (6.25%) Arista
2 1 (6.25%) Aruba
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft