Creative Thinking Contracts in England

Creative Thinking
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Creative Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Creative Thinking over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 436 528
Rank change year-on-year +12 +92 -27
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 127 202 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.43% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.47% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 140 158
10th Percentile £272 £400 £288
25th Percentile £363 £462 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £634
90th Percentile £638 £688 £716
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 38
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.21 -
25th Percentile £18.25 £29.49 £15.90
Median hourly rate £19.50 £48.00 £16.93
Median % change year-on-year -59.38% +183.52% -23.05%
75th Percentile £57.38 £58.75 £17.97
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.75 £42.85
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £48.00 £16.93
% change year-on-year -59.38% +183.52% -23.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Creative 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in England

Creative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in England.

Daily rate trend for Creative Thinking in England

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Thinking in England

Creative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in England.

Hourly rate trend for Creative Thinking in England

Creative Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Creative Thinking in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Creative Thinking in England

Creative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Thinking within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
London +68 65 £463 -15.91% 136
North of England +21 16 £600 +9.09% 46
South West +14 16 £625 +31.58% 24
South East -14 16 £500 -16.67% 43
North West +27 12 £600 +20.00% 27
Midlands +5 6 £335 -50.37% 23
East Midlands +12 4 £335 -16.25% 12
East of England -3 4 £488 +5.98% 17
Yorkshire +10 3 - - 18
West Midlands -4 2 - - 11
Creative Thinking
UK

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (6.30%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.94%) Confluence
3 3 (2.36%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (2.36%) CMS
4 1 (0.79%) Apache
4 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.79%) EPiServer
Applications
1 14 (11.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (8.66%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (5.51%) Adobe After Effects
3 7 (5.51%) Photoshop
4 5 (3.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (3.15%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (3.15%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (2.36%) Blender
6 3 (2.36%) Maya
6 3 (2.36%) MS Visio
7 2 (1.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (1.57%) InDesign
7 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.79%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.79%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (2.36%) SAP ERP
2 3 (2.36%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 12 (9.45%) Azure
2 11 (8.66%) Figma
3 9 (7.09%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.51%) AWS
5 4 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.15%) GCP
5 4 (3.15%) SaaS
6 3 (2.36%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.79%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.79%) IaaS
8 1 (0.79%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.79%) PaaS
8 1 (0.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.94%) Internet
2 3 (2.36%) Intranet
2 3 (2.36%) NAS
2 3 (2.36%) SAN
3 1 (0.79%) 3G
3 1 (0.79%) 4G
3 1 (0.79%) 5G
3 1 (0.79%) Broadband
3 1 (0.79%) DHCP
3 1 (0.79%) DNS
3 1 (0.79%) DSL
3 1 (0.79%) Firewall
3 1 (0.79%) FTP
3 1 (0.79%) HTTP
3 1 (0.79%) Link 16
3 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.30%) Power BI
2 5 (3.94%) Tableau
3 4 (3.15%) SAP HANA
4 3 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.36%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.57%) MySQL
5 2 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.79%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (6.30%) JIRA
2 5 (3.94%) Git
3 4 (3.15%) JUnit
3 4 (3.15%) Selenium
4 3 (2.36%) RStudio
5 2 (1.57%) Gerrit
5 2 (1.57%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.57%) Mercurial
5 2 (1.57%) Serenity BDD
5 2 (1.57%) TestNG
5 2 (1.57%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.57%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.79%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.79%) Darcs
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.79%) Postman
6 1 (0.79%) Protractor
6 1 (0.79%) REST Assured
General
1 64 (50.39%) Social Skills
2 30 (23.62%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (21.26%) Finance
4 22 (17.32%) Legal
5 17 (13.39%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (11.02%) Marketing
7 13 (10.24%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (8.66%) Law
9 10 (7.87%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (6.30%) Banking
10 8 (6.30%) Retail
11 5 (3.94%) Public Sector
12 4 (3.15%) Games
13 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
14 2 (1.57%) Digital Economy
14 2 (1.57%) Local Government
14 2 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.79%) Aviation
15 1 (0.79%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 19 (14.96%) Analyst
2 16 (12.60%) Designer
3 10 (7.87%) Lead
3 10 (7.87%) Senior
4 7 (5.51%) Developer
5 6 (4.72%) Business Analyst
5 6 (4.72%) Integration Analyst
5 6 (4.72%) SAP Analyst
6 4 (3.15%) Business Integration Analyst
6 4 (3.15%) Coordinator
6 4 (3.15%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (3.15%) Integration Specialist
6 4 (3.15%) Procurement Officer
6 4 (3.15%) Service Designer
6 4 (3.15%) Software Engineer
7 3 (2.36%) Data Analyst
7 3 (2.36%) Desktop Engineer
7 3 (2.36%) Desktop Support
7 3 (2.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (2.36%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.36%) CSS
1 3 (2.36%) EDI
1 3 (2.36%) REST
1 3 (2.36%) Unreal Engine
2 2 (1.57%) HTML
2 2 (1.57%) Swagger
3 1 (0.79%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.79%) jQuery
3 1 (0.79%) JSON
3 1 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.79%) NestJS
3 1 (0.79%) Next.js
3 1 (0.79%) OpenAPI
3 1 (0.79%) Prisma
3 1 (0.79%) React
3 1 (0.79%) Visualforce
3 1 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.24%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (7.87%) Management Information System
3 9 (7.09%) Virtual Team
4 8 (6.30%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.94%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.94%) Graphic Design
6 3 (2.36%) Animation
6 3 (2.36%) Augmented Reality
6 3 (2.36%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.36%) Virtual Reality
7 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.57%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.57%) Social Media
8 1 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.79%) Blog
8 1 (0.79%) CBDC
8 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.79%) NHS
8 1 (0.79%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.94%) Windows
2 3 (2.36%) Linux
3 1 (0.79%) Unix
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (37.80%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (25.98%) Stakeholder Management
3 31 (24.41%) Agile
4 20 (15.75%) Decision-Making
5 17 (13.39%) Project Management
6 16 (12.60%) Artificial Intelligence
7 14 (11.02%) Business Analysis
7 14 (11.02%) Strategic Thinking
8 12 (9.45%) Data Protection
8 12 (9.45%) Data Strategy
9 11 (8.66%) Change Management
9 11 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (7.87%) Customer Experience
10 10 (7.87%) Impact Assessments
10 10 (7.87%) Scrum
11 9 (7.09%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (7.09%) Generative AI
12 8 (6.30%) Critical Thinking
12 8 (6.30%) Innovative Thinking
12 8 (6.30%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.66%) Python
2 8 (6.30%) SQL
3 4 (3.15%) C++
3 4 (3.15%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.36%) C#
4 3 (2.36%) Java
5 1 (0.79%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.79%) Bicep
5 1 (0.79%) C
5 1 (0.79%) Go
5 1 (0.79%) Perl
5 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.79%) Rust
5 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (18.90%) Degree
2 15 (11.81%) Security Cleared
3 12 (9.45%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.94%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.94%) ISTQB
4 5 (3.94%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (2.36%) CIPD
5 3 (2.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (1.57%) CBAP
6 2 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.79%) CSPO
7 1 (0.79%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) GCIA
7 1 (0.79%) GCIH
7 1 (0.79%) IIBA
7 1 (0.79%) MBA
7 1 (0.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.87%) GDPR
2 8 (6.30%) QA
3 3 (2.36%) PMO
4 2 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.79%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (2.36%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (2.36%) vSphere
2 1 (0.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.79%) CSIRT
1 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
1 1 (0.79%) Puppet
1 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (20.47%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.87%) Oracle
2 10 (7.87%) SAP
3 6 (4.72%) Adobe
4 4 (3.15%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.36%) BT
5 3 (2.36%) Citrix
5 3 (2.36%) HP
5 3 (2.36%) VMware
6 2 (1.57%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.57%) Cadence
6 2 (1.57%) OpenText
7 1 (0.79%) Google
7 1 (0.79%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.79%) Splunk
7 1 (0.79%) Zscaler