Strategic Thinking Contracts with Work from Home Options

Strategic Thinking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Strategic Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 223 336 335
Rank change year-on-year +113 -1 +16
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 121 139 307
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.79% 0.54% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.61% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 100 223
10th Percentile £477 £412 £414
25th Percentile £522 £480 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £581 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -3.25% +2.35%
75th Percentile £700 £678 £738
90th Percentile £835 £788 £785
UK median daily rate £579 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -3.58% - +8.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £22.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year +211.11% -48.28% +10.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Strategic Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,387 22,922 40,601
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.93% 89.77% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,971 16,192 29,477
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 528 542
10th Percentile £15.08 £18.68 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.81 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.13 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Strategic Thinking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Strategic Thinking trend for jobs with a WFH option

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Strategic Thinking.

Strategic Thinking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Strategic Thinking over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Strategic Thinking daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Strategic Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Strategic Thinking.

Strategic Thinking hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Strategic 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 1 (0.83%) CMS
1 1 (0.83%) Confluence
1 1 (0.83%) Mule
Applications
1 8 (6.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (4.13%) Adobe After Effects
2 5 (4.13%) Adobe Premiere
2 5 (4.13%) CINEMA 4D
2 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) SAP CO
1 2 (1.65%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.65%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.65%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.44%) Azure
2 6 (4.96%) SaaS
3 5 (4.13%) AWS
3 5 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.31%) GCP
5 3 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.65%) IaaS
6 2 (1.65%) PaaS
6 2 (1.65%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.65%) Serverless
7 1 (0.83%) iPaaS
7 1 (0.83%) Miro
7 1 (0.83%) Route 53
7 1 (0.83%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.13%) Kerberos
2 4 (3.31%) VSAN
3 3 (2.48%) WAN
4 2 (1.65%) Firewall
4 2 (1.65%) Wireless
5 1 (0.83%) LAN
5 1 (0.83%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.13%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.65%) Power BI
2 2 (1.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.83%) MySQL
3 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.83%) Tableau
3 1 (0.83%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 8 (6.61%) JIRA
General
1 49 (40.50%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.83%) Public Sector
3 23 (19.01%) Finance
4 22 (18.18%) Telecoms
5 17 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (11.57%) Marketing
7 11 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.48%) Retail
10 2 (1.65%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.65%) Front Office
10 2 (1.65%) Legal
10 2 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.65%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.83%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.83%) Electronics
11 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (36.36%) Lead
2 37 (30.58%) Architect
3 22 (18.18%) Lead Architect
3 22 (18.18%) Senior
4 21 (17.36%) Network Architect
4 21 (17.36%) Systems Architect
5 14 (11.57%) Designer
6 10 (8.26%) Consultant
7 7 (5.79%) Analyst
7 7 (5.79%) Senior Manager
7 7 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.96%) Business Analyst
8 6 (4.96%) Lead Designer
9 5 (4.13%) Product Owner
9 5 (4.13%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.31%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (3.31%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.31%) Creative Designer
10 4 (3.31%) Creative Director
10 4 (3.31%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.13%) OAuth
1 5 (4.13%) OpenID
1 5 (4.13%) SAML
2 2 (1.65%) JSON
2 2 (1.65%) REST
2 2 (1.65%) SOAP
2 2 (1.65%) Swagger
3 1 (0.83%) .NET
3 1 (0.83%) Django
3 1 (0.83%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.83%) J2EE
3 1 (0.83%) Middleware
3 1 (0.83%) Servlets
3 1 (0.83%) Spring
3 1 (0.83%) Spring Security
3 1 (0.83%) Web Services
3 1 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.83%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (5.79%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.96%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.13%) CMDB
4 5 (4.13%) Motion Graphics
4 5 (4.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (3.31%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 3 (2.48%) Animation
6 3 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.65%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.65%) Blog
7 2 (1.65%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.65%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.65%) Photography
8 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.83%) Robotics
8 1 (0.83%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (23.97%) Agile
2 27 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (19.01%) Business Analysis
3 23 (19.01%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (17.36%) Network Management
5 20 (16.53%) Service Management
5 20 (16.53%) Systems Engineering
6 19 (15.70%) Configuration Management
6 19 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (14.88%) Coaching
7 18 (14.88%) User Research
7 18 (14.88%) User Stories
8 16 (13.22%) Analytics
9 15 (12.40%) Customer Experience
10 12 (9.92%) Project Delivery
11 11 (9.09%) Business Case
11 11 (9.09%) Change Management
11 11 (9.09%) Data Analytics
11 11 (9.09%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
12 10 (8.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.96%) SQL
2 2 (1.65%) Java
3 1 (0.83%) Python
3 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (38.02%) SC Cleared
1 46 (38.02%) Security Cleared
2 31 (25.62%) Degree
3 4 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.48%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.48%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.48%) MBA
5 2 (1.65%) CISSP
5 2 (1.65%) PhD
6 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.83%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.31%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.65%) QA
3 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.83%) NIST
3 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.31%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.31%) vSphere
3 3 (2.48%) Docker
4 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (4.13%) PingFederate
2 4 (3.31%) vCenter Server
2 4 (3.31%) VxRail
3 3 (2.48%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.48%) Terraform
4 2 (1.65%) Grafana
5 1 (0.83%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (11.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.13%) Ping Identity
2 5 (4.13%) VMware
3 4 (3.31%) Adobe
3 4 (3.31%) Dell
3 4 (3.31%) SAP
4 2 (1.65%) Cisco
4 2 (1.65%) Okta
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle
5 1 (0.83%) Pega
5 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (0.83%) TIBCO
5 1 (0.83%) Workday