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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 103 104
Rank change year-on-year +25 +1 +30
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 10 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.96% 0.12% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.14% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 14
10th Percentile £309 - £468
25th Percentile £313 - £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.15%
75th Percentile £541 - £638
90th Percentile £595 - £676
England median daily rate £550 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 - -
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.00 £70.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -25.71% +30.23% +1.42%

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 962 1,432 2,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.06% 85.95% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 859 1,327
10th Percentile £259 £275 £275
25th Percentile £375 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +7.97%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 66 63
10th Percentile £14.86 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.27 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.12 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +56.44% +27.00% -40.94%
75th Percentile £22.14 £22.00 £20.97
90th Percentile £34.24 £53.75 £55.23
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%

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 18 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 18 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 +15 8 £400 - 24
North Yorkshire - 2 £425 - 4
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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Data Hub
2 1 (10.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Health
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Lead
1 3 (30.00%) Scala Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Information Assurance Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Change Manager
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Scala Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Akka
1 3 (30.00%) Play Framework
2 1 (10.00%) FHIR
2 1 (10.00%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) PMI
2 1 (10.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (40.00%) Change Management
4 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (40.00%) PRINCE2
4 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (30.00%) API Development
5 3 (30.00%) BDD
5 3 (30.00%) Budget Management
5 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (30.00%) Functional Programming
5 3 (30.00%) Microservices
5 3 (30.00%) Portfolio Management
5 3 (30.00%) TDD
5 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Scala
2 1 (10.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (20.00%) PMP
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) PMO
2 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (10.00%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) SAP