Strategic Thinking Contracts in England

Strategic Thinking
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 338 378
Rank change year-on-year +48 +40 +17
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 273 336 467
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.75% 0.70% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.77% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 225 309
10th Percentile £413 £410 £425
25th Percentile £481 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -2.04% +8.41%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £834 £791 £800
UK median daily rate £584 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.75% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 2 7
10th Percentile £42.13 £27.38 £26.28
25th Percentile £63.75 £36.56 £32.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £53.75 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.23% +23.56% +10.13%
75th Percentile £72.50 £71.56 £72.00
90th Percentile - £81.13 £83.44
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £53.75 £43.50
% change year-on-year +30.23% +23.56% +10.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,440 43,538 63,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.46% 90.17% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,583 30,556 45,375
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,239 1,538 1,750
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.97 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +6.79%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in England

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in England

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in England

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Thinking in England

Strategic Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Strategic Thinking in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in England

Strategic 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 Strategic Thinking within the England region over the 6 months to 15 May 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 +27 136 £550 -9.84% 208
South West +76 69 £588 - 28
North of England +16 26 £636 +15.55% 84
South East -5 22 £518 -13.75% 64
North West +22 20 £600 +9.09% 41
Midlands +37 13 £600 +12.94% 58
West Midlands +25 12 £600 +14.29% 32
North East - 3 £775 - 15
Yorkshire +8 2 - - 31
East Midlands +13 1 £475 -24.00% 26
East of England +5 1 - - 30
Strategic Thinking
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Strategic 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 5 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.47%) Confluence
2 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.10%) CMS
4 2 (0.73%) nginx
4 2 (0.73%) Traefik
5 1 (0.37%) Mule
Applications
1 12 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 11 (4.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (2.20%) Adobe After Effects
5 5 (1.83%) Adobe Premiere
5 5 (1.83%) CINEMA 4D
6 4 (1.47%) Sketch
7 3 (1.10%) InVision
8 2 (0.73%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.37%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.37%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.37%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.37%) Trello
9 1 (0.37%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (2.20%) Shopify
2 3 (1.10%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.73%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.73%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.73%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.73%) SAP SD
3 2 (0.73%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 29 (10.62%) Azure
2 14 (5.13%) AWS
3 13 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 10 (3.66%) Figma
4 10 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (2.93%) GCP
5 8 (2.93%) SaaS
6 6 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (2.20%) BigCommerce
7 4 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.47%) Serverless
7 4 (1.47%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (1.10%) WhatsApp
9 2 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.73%) Bloomreach
9 2 (0.73%) Collibra
9 2 (0.73%) Contentsquare
9 2 (0.73%) PaaS
9 2 (0.73%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.56%) Unified Communications
2 5 (1.83%) LAN
2 5 (1.83%) WAN
2 5 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.10%) Network Security
3 3 (1.10%) Skype
4 2 (0.73%) DNS
4 2 (0.73%) Firewall
4 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.73%) Wireless
5 1 (0.37%) BGP
5 1 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.37%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.37%) IPv4
5 1 (0.37%) IPv6
5 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.37%) LTE
5 1 (0.37%) MPLS
5 1 (0.37%) OSPF
5 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.76%) Power BI
2 8 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (2.93%) Tableau
3 7 (2.56%) Metadata
3 7 (2.56%) Metadata Repository
4 6 (2.20%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.37%) DTS
6 1 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.37%) MySQL
6 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.37%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 11 (4.03%) JIRA
2 4 (1.47%) LoadRunner
2 4 (1.47%) NeoLoad
3 3 (1.10%) Mockito
4 2 (0.73%) Axure RP
4 2 (0.73%) Git
4 2 (0.73%) GitLab
4 2 (0.73%) Jenkins
General
1 120 (43.96%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.95%) Finance
3 42 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.26%) Marketing
5 27 (9.89%) Telecoms
6 23 (8.42%) Public Sector
7 18 (6.59%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (5.49%) Retail
9 10 (3.66%) Legal
10 9 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (2.93%) Law
12 7 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.10%) Banking
14 3 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.10%) Police
15 2 (0.73%) Advertising
15 2 (0.73%) Military
15 2 (0.73%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 99 (36.26%) Architect
2 71 (26.01%) Lead
3 52 (19.05%) Lead Architect
4 30 (10.99%) Designer
5 28 (10.26%) Network Architect
6 24 (8.79%) Senior
7 22 (8.06%) Systems Architect
8 17 (6.23%) Analyst
9 13 (4.76%) Product Owner
10 10 (3.66%) Consultant
11 9 (3.30%) Business Analyst
11 9 (3.30%) Data Architect
11 9 (3.30%) Domain Architect
12 8 (2.93%) Creative Designer
12 8 (2.93%) Project Manager
12 8 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.93%) Technical Architect
13 7 (2.56%) Product Manager
13 7 (2.56%) Programme Manager
13 7 (2.56%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.10%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (1.10%) HTML
1 3 (1.10%) JAX-RS
1 3 (1.10%) JSON
1 3 (1.10%) Kafka
2 2 (0.73%) cloud-init
2 2 (0.73%) Middleware
2 2 (0.73%) REST
2 2 (0.73%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (0.73%) SOAP
2 2 (0.73%) Swagger
3 1 (0.37%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.37%) Framer.js
3 1 (0.37%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.37%) Hugging Face
3 1 (0.37%) LangChain
3 1 (0.37%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.37%) PySpark
3 1 (0.37%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.37%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 33 (12.09%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (5.49%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.93%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.83%) Animation
5 5 (1.83%) Motion Graphics
5 5 (1.83%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 4 (1.47%) Blockchain
6 4 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.10%) Blog
7 3 (1.10%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.10%) NHS
7 3 (1.10%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.10%) Social Media
8 2 (0.73%) Clustering
8 2 (0.73%) CMDB
8 2 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.83%) Linux
2 3 (1.10%) Mac OS X
2 3 (1.10%) Unix
3 2 (0.73%) CentOS
3 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (22.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 57 (20.88%) Agile
4 49 (17.95%) Project Management
5 33 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (11.72%) Roadmaps
7 27 (9.89%) Identity Access Management
7 27 (9.89%) Network Management
8 26 (9.52%) Coaching
9 25 (9.16%) Migration
10 24 (8.79%) Digital Identity
10 24 (8.79%) IT Strategy
11 22 (8.06%) Decision-Making
12 21 (7.69%) Analytics
12 21 (7.69%) Change Management
12 21 (7.69%) Systems Engineering
13 19 (6.96%) Business Intelligence
13 19 (6.96%) Project Delivery
13 19 (6.96%) Technology Strategy
14 18 (6.59%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.93%) Python
1 8 (2.93%) SQL
2 5 (1.83%) Java
2 5 (1.83%) Ruby
3 3 (1.10%) Bash
4 2 (0.73%) Go
5 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.37%) C
5 1 (0.37%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.37%) Scala
5 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 87 (31.87%) Security Cleared
2 74 (27.11%) SC Cleared
3 53 (19.41%) Degree
4 13 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.20%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.73%) CSPO
8 2 (0.73%) MBA
8 2 (0.73%) PhD
8 2 (0.73%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.73%) PMP
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.37%) CCNA
9 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.37%) CISSP
9 1 (0.37%) MCSE
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.79%) JSP 440
2 11 (4.03%) Accessibility
2 11 (4.03%) QA
3 5 (1.83%) SLA
4 3 (1.10%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.10%) GDPR
5 2 (0.73%) NCSC
5 2 (0.73%) PMO
6 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 6 (2.20%) Docker
1 6 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.83%) Terraform
2 5 (1.83%) VxRail
3 4 (1.47%) PowerCLI
4 3 (1.10%) Ansible
5 2 (0.73%) Consul
5 2 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.73%) Graphite
5 2 (0.73%) HAProxy
5 2 (0.73%) Istio
5 2 (0.73%) linkerd
5 2 (0.73%) Packer
5 2 (0.73%) Podman
5 2 (0.73%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.73%) Puppet
5 2 (0.73%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.37%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.86%) Adobe
3 11 (4.03%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.66%) SAP
5 9 (3.30%) Dell
6 7 (2.56%) Remedy
6 7 (2.56%) VMware
7 6 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.20%) Sitecore
8 5 (1.83%) Oracle
9 4 (1.47%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (1.47%) Google
9 4 (1.47%) Greenplum
9 4 (1.47%) iManage
9 4 (1.47%) Intapp
9 4 (1.47%) Netezza
9 4 (1.47%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.47%) Sybase
9 4 (1.47%) Teradata
10 3 (1.10%) Cisco
587 Strategic Thinking jobs Nationwide