Creative Thinking Contracts in Scotland

Creative Thinking
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 158 161
Rank change year-on-year +41 +3 -12
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 6 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.28% 0.22% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.24% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 8
10th Percentile £481 £509 £344
25th Percentile £500 £511 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +13.16% +26.25%
75th Percentile £613 £551 £523
90th Percentile £626 £551 £596
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,884 2,495 3,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.04% 92.48% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,766 2,240
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.67
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in Scotland

Creative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Creative Thinking in Scotland

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Thinking in Scotland

Creative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Creative Thinking in Scotland

Creative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 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
Edinburgh - 3 £500 - 4
Creative Thinking
UK

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 3 (50.00%) Legal
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Back Office
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Procurement Officer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Functional Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Service Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Backlog Management
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) Design Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Project Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
3 1 (16.67%) Service Design
3 1 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft