Strategic Thinking Contracts in Yorkshire

Strategic Thinking
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Strategic Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Strategic Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 98 112
Rank change year-on-year +18 +14 +24
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 12 2 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.18% 0.12% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 0.14% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 15
10th Percentile £310 - £468
25th Percentile £313 - £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.15%
75th Percentile £550 - £600
90th Percentile £710 - £695
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £84.25 - -
25th Percentile £84.35 - -
Median hourly rate £91.05 - -
75th Percentile £98.08 - -
90th Percentile £98.36 - -
England median hourly rate £52.25 £70.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -25.36% +211.11% -48.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Strategic 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 requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in Yorkshire

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in Yorkshire

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in Yorkshire

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Thinking in Yorkshire

Strategic Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Thinking within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
West Yorkshire +23 10 £400 - 19
North Yorkshire - 2 £425 - 3
Strategic Thinking
England

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (8.33%) nginx
1 1 (8.33%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 2 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Data Hub
2 1 (8.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Health
4 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
1 4 (33.33%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Scala Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Information Assurance Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Change Manager
4 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Programme Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Scala Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Akka
1 3 (25.00%) Play Framework
2 2 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (8.33%) cloud-init
3 1 (8.33%) FHIR
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) PMI
2 1 (8.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) CentOS
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Decision-Making
4 4 (33.33%) Change Management
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (33.33%) PRINCE2
4 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (25.00%) API Development
5 3 (25.00%) API Integration
5 3 (25.00%) BDD
5 3 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (25.00%) Functional Programming
5 3 (25.00%) Microservices
5 3 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
5 3 (25.00%) TDD
5 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Scala
2 2 (16.67%) Apex Code
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Go
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 2 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 2 (16.67%) PMP
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) PMO
2 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (8.33%) HL7
3 1 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kibana
2 1 (8.33%) Consul
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) HAProxy
2 1 (8.33%) Istio
2 1 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) linkerd
2 1 (8.33%) Packer
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Rancher
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) Apple
2 1 (8.33%) ESET
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Okta
2 1 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk