Creative Thinking Contracts in the South East

Creative Thinking
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 168 230
Rank change year-on-year -6 +62 -24
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 18 45 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.33% 0.80% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.90% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 31 28
10th Percentile £370 £525 £130
25th Percentile £475 £563 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £443
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +35.52% +7.33%
75th Percentile £568 £675 £517
90th Percentile £625 £775 £578
England median daily rate £508 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -7.73% +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £16.00 £15.21 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% - -
England median hourly rate £19.50 £48.00 £16.93
% change year-on-year -59.38% +183.52% -23.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,603 5,023 6,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.23% 89.08% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,675 3,482 4,732
10th Percentile £250 £248 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £598
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 440 218 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Creative Thinking in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Thinking in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Creative Thinking in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Creative Thinking in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Thames Valley -18 13 £519 -13.54% 17
Berkshire -13 9 £500 -9.09% 4
West Sussex - 3 £475 - 3
Buckinghamshire +4 2 £600 -4.00% 12
Oxfordshire +2 2 - - 1
Hampshire -1 2 - - 8
Creative Thinking
England

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) EPiServer
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (16.67%) SaaS
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Azure API Management
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Functions
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) PaaS
3 2 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) ChatGPT
4 1 (5.56%) Figma
4 1 (5.56%) IaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) NAS
1 3 (16.67%) SAN
2 2 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (5.56%) 3G
3 1 (5.56%) 4G
3 1 (5.56%) 5G
3 1 (5.56%) Broadband
3 1 (5.56%) DHCP
3 1 (5.56%) DNS
3 1 (5.56%) DSL
3 1 (5.56%) IP Telephony
3 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Postman
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle APEX
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Marketing
2 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (11.11%) Legal
3 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Developer
1 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Senior Storage Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Developer
3 2 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Author
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Junior
4 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) CSS
2 2 (11.11%) HTML
2 2 (11.11%) OpenAPI
2 2 (11.11%) Swagger
3 1 (5.56%) jQuery
3 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Graphic Design
3 1 (5.56%) Animation
3 1 (5.56%) Blog
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (11.11%) API Management
5 2 (11.11%) Innovative Thinking
5 2 (11.11%) OO
5 2 (11.11%) Performance Management
5 2 (11.11%) Project Management
5 2 (11.11%) SEO
5 2 (11.11%) SOLID
5 2 (11.11%) TDD
5 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 1 (5.56%) B2B
6 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) C#
2 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) CSPO
2 1 (5.56%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (16.67%) vSphere
2 1 (5.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Citrix
3 2 (11.11%) HP
4 1 (5.56%) Adobe
4 1 (5.56%) Optimizely
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce