Strategic Thinking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Strategic Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 243 327 368
Rank change year-on-year +84 +41 -57
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 147 110 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.73% 0.48% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.53% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 83 103
10th Percentile £463 £442 £430
25th Percentile £536 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £552 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% -8.00% +6.19%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £681
90th Percentile £758 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £584 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.75% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 4
10th Percentile - - £23.30
25th Percentile £67.50 - £27.77
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £53.50
75th Percentile £72.50 - £82.24
90th Percentile - - £85.83
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,110 20,642 27,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.43% 89.51% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,201 14,252 18,911
10th Percentile £250 £255 £236
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £476
Median % change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,261 1,359
10th Percentile £12.31 £10.75 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.71 £61.30
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Thinking in the UK excluding London

Strategic Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South West +76 69 £588 - 28
North of England +16 26 £636 +15.55% 83
South East -5 22 £518 -13.75% 64
North West +22 20 £600 +9.09% 41
Scotland +48 14 £646 +23.05% 25
Midlands +37 13 £600 +12.94% 58
West Midlands +25 12 £600 +14.29% 32
North East - 3 £775 - 14
Yorkshire +8 2 - - 31
East Midlands +13 1 £475 -24.00% 26
East of England +5 1 - - 30
Northern Ireland - 1 £513 - 5
Wales - 1 £450 - 4
Strategic Thinking
UK

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (2.72%) Confluence
2 3 (2.04%) CMS
2 3 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.36%) nginx
3 2 (1.36%) Traefik
Applications
1 10 (6.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (5.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 5 (3.40%) Adobe After Effects
4 5 (3.40%) Adobe Premiere
4 5 (3.40%) CINEMA 4D
5 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.68%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.68%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.68%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (1.36%) SAP CO
1 2 (1.36%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.36%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.36%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.84%) Azure
2 8 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.72%) AWS
3 4 (2.72%) GCP
3 4 (2.72%) IaaS
3 4 (2.72%) PaaS
4 3 (2.04%) iPaaS
4 3 (2.04%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.36%) SaaS
5 2 (1.36%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (1.36%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.68%) Miro
6 1 (0.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.76%) LAN
1 7 (4.76%) WAN
2 4 (2.72%) Unified Communications
2 4 (2.72%) VSAN
2 4 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (2.04%) Skype
4 2 (1.36%) DNS
4 2 (1.36%) Network Security
4 2 (1.36%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.36%) Wireless
5 1 (0.68%) Internet
5 1 (0.68%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (4.76%) Metadata
2 7 (4.76%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (2.04%) Power BI
3 3 (2.04%) Tableau
4 1 (0.68%) DTS
4 1 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 8 (5.44%) JIRA
2 2 (1.36%) Git
2 2 (1.36%) GitLab
2 2 (1.36%) Jenkins
General
1 59 (40.14%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.33%) Telecoms
3 22 (14.97%) Public Sector
4 17 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.56%) Finance
4 17 (11.56%) Marketing
5 8 (5.44%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.04%) Police
6 3 (2.04%) Retail
7 2 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.36%) Military
8 1 (0.68%) Banking
8 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.68%) Local Government
8 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 88 (59.86%) Architect
2 61 (41.50%) Lead
3 51 (34.69%) Lead Architect
4 26 (17.69%) Network Architect
5 22 (14.97%) Systems Architect
6 14 (9.52%) Designer
7 11 (7.48%) Technical Architect
8 9 (6.12%) Domain Architect
9 8 (5.44%) Creative Designer
9 8 (5.44%) Data Architect
9 8 (5.44%) Project Manager
10 7 (4.76%) Consultant
11 6 (4.08%) Senior
12 5 (3.40%) Lead Designer
12 5 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (2.72%) Analyst
13 4 (2.72%) Animator
13 4 (2.72%) Business Manager
13 4 (2.72%) Creative Director
13 4 (2.72%) Video Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.04%) .NET
1 3 (2.04%) J2EE
1 3 (2.04%) Web Services
2 2 (1.36%) cloud-init
2 2 (1.36%) HTML
3 1 (0.68%) CSS
3 1 (0.68%) Flutter
3 1 (0.68%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.68%) JSON
3 1 (0.68%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.68%) Middleware
3 1 (0.68%) REST
3 1 (0.68%) RESTful
3 1 (0.68%) SOAP
3 1 (0.68%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.33%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (6.12%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.08%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.40%) Motion Graphics
5 4 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.72%) Animation
5 4 (2.72%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.72%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 3 (2.04%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.04%) NHS
6 3 (2.04%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.36%) Clustering
7 2 (1.36%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.36%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.36%) PKI
7 2 (1.36%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.36%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.36%) CentOS
1 2 (1.36%) Linux
1 2 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.68%) Android
2 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (25.85%) Project Management
1 38 (25.85%) Stakeholder Management
2 26 (17.69%) Network Management
3 25 (17.01%) Identity Access Management
4 24 (16.33%) Digital Identity
5 23 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
7 18 (12.24%) Migration
8 16 (10.88%) IT Strategy
9 15 (10.20%) Agile
10 14 (9.52%) Storytelling
10 14 (9.52%) TOGAF
11 12 (8.16%) Roadmaps
11 12 (8.16%) Technology Strategy
12 11 (7.48%) Data Analysis
12 11 (7.48%) Data Migration
12 11 (7.48%) Enterprise Architecture
13 10 (6.80%) Coaching
13 10 (6.80%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.36%) Bash
1 2 (1.36%) Go
1 2 (1.36%) Python
1 2 (1.36%) Ruby
2 1 (0.68%) Apex Code
2 1 (0.68%) Dart
Qualifications
1 72 (48.98%) Security Cleared
2 59 (40.14%) SC Cleared
3 44 (29.93%) Degree
4 13 (8.84%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.40%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.68%) HND
7 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.33%) JSP 440
2 8 (5.44%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.04%) SLA
4 2 (1.36%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.36%) NCSC
4 2 (1.36%) QA
5 1 (0.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.72%) vSphere
4 3 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.72%) vCenter Server
1 4 (2.72%) VxRail
2 2 (1.36%) Ansible
2 2 (1.36%) Consul
2 2 (1.36%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (1.36%) Graphite
2 2 (1.36%) HAProxy
2 2 (1.36%) Istio
2 2 (1.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.36%) linkerd
2 2 (1.36%) Packer
2 2 (1.36%) Podman
2 2 (1.36%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.36%) Puppet
2 2 (1.36%) Terraform
2 2 (1.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.12%) Adobe
2 9 (6.12%) VMware
3 7 (4.76%) Remedy
4 4 (2.72%) Dell
5 3 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.36%) Cisco
6 2 (1.36%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.36%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.36%) SAP
6 2 (1.36%) Splunk
7 1 (0.68%) Google
7 1 (0.68%) Qualtrics
7 1 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Workday