Creative Thinking Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Creative Thinking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Creative Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Creative Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 303 356
Rank change year-on-year +21 +53 +116
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 18 43 116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.28% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.32% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 27 93
10th Percentile £218 £348 £413
25th Percentile £351 £416 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £515 £552
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% -6.70% +5.65%
75th Percentile £584 £594 £675
90th Percentile £706 £630 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £506 £550
% change year-on-year +3.70% -7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £21.61 £10.60 -
25th Percentile £25.53 £13.38 -
Median hourly rate £32.05 £20.01 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.19% - -
75th Percentile - £24.89 -
90th Percentile - £26.62 -
UK median hourly rate £30.53 £19.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +56.54% -61.00% +195.33%

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 9,021 13,390 22,975
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.90% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,194 8,954 16,256
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 577 528
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.19 £25.00 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.02 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.38 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

Creative Thinking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Creative Thinking trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Creative Thinking.

Creative Thinking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Creative Thinking over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Creative Thinking daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Creative Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Creative Thinking.

Creative Thinking hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Creative Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Creative Thinking over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Creative Thinking hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.11%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe XD
3 1 (5.56%) CINEMA 4D
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (5.56%) Photoshop
3 1 (5.56%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) Figma
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) BIG-IP
1 2 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 2 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) NGFW
1 2 (11.11%) VXLAN
1 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (11.11%) Wireshark
2 1 (5.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) REST Assured
2 1 (5.56%) MLflow
General
1 10 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 3 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 2 (11.11%) Marketing
6 1 (5.56%) Advertising
6 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Finance
6 1 (5.56%) French Language
6 1 (5.56%) German Language
Job Titles
1 2 (11.11%) Administrator
1 2 (11.11%) Designer
1 2 (11.11%) Development Specialist
1 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
1 2 (11.11%) QA Tester
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
1 2 (11.11%) Senior
1 2 (11.11%) Tester
2 1 (5.56%) Business IT Analyst
2 1 (5.56%) Coordinator
2 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) IT Business Analyst
2 1 (5.56%) Motion Designer
2 1 (5.56%) Reinsurance Project Manager
2 1 (5.56%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Senior Manager
2 1 (5.56%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (5.56%) Service Designer
2 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (5.56%) EDI
2 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
2 1 (5.56%) Spring
2 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Learning Management System
1 3 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Life Science
2 2 (11.11%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (11.11%) Social Media
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) IoT
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Motion Graphics
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Modelling
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
2 3 (16.67%) Change Management
2 3 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 3 (16.67%) Data Validation
2 3 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (16.67%) ITSM
2 3 (16.67%) Migration
2 3 (16.67%) Model Validation
2 3 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (16.67%) Validation
3 2 (11.11%) Analytics
3 2 (11.11%) Business Analytics
3 2 (11.11%) Content Management
3 2 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
2 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) IFRS
3 1 (5.56%) IFRS 17
3 1 (5.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Databricks
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Arista
2 2 (11.11%) Aruba
2 2 (11.11%) BMC
2 2 (11.11%) F5
2 2 (11.11%) NetScout
2 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow