Systems Thinking Contracts

Systems Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Systems Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Systems Thinking over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 626 720
Rank change year-on-year +96 +94 -54
Contract jobs citing Systems Thinking 40 64 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 37 101
10th Percentile £331 £414 £430
25th Percentile £475 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £659
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £435 £525
% change year-on-year +9.20% -17.14% +11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 2
10th Percentile £41.78 - £56.76
25th Percentile £47.06 £62.50 £58.13
Median hourly rate £53.25 £67.50 £60.42
Median % change year-on-year -21.12% +11.72% +11.89%
75th Percentile £56.49 £69.06 £62.71
90th Percentile - £70.00 £64.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.49 £70.00 £55.84
% change year-on-year -19.30% +25.36% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Systems 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

Systems Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Systems Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Thinking in the UK

Systems Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Thinking in the UK

Systems Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Thinking over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Thinking in the UK

Systems Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Thinking in the UK

Systems Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Thinking over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Thinking in the UK

Systems Thinking
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
England +84 37 £505 -12.17% 35
London +89 22 £505 -12.17% 6
UK excluding London +52 17 £475 +9.20% 30
Work from Home +113 8 £488 -15.22% 15
North of England +33 7 £488 -11.36% 8
North West +27 5 £475 -13.64% 6
South East +19 3 £663 +26.19% 7
Scotland +40 2 £455 +7.06% 2
South West +10 2 - - 9
Midlands +26 1 £300 - 1
Yorkshire +18 1 £563 - 2
North East - 1 - -
East of England - 1 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Systems Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (7.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) CMS
2 1 (2.50%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.00%) Figma
2 2 (5.00%) AWS
2 2 (5.00%) Azure
2 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (2.50%) Contentful
3 1 (2.50%) Contentstack
3 1 (2.50%) GitHub
3 1 (2.50%) prismic.io
3 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 11 (27.50%) Finance
2 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
3 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Banking
5 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 4 (10.00%) Retail
6 3 (7.50%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (7.50%) Local Government
6 3 (7.50%) Military
6 3 (7.50%) Retail Banking
7 2 (5.00%) Marketing
7 2 (5.00%) Police
8 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.50%) Social Housing
8 1 (2.50%) Tech for Good
8 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Designer
2 6 (15.00%) Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Business Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Content Designer
4 4 (10.00%) Senior
4 4 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Transformation Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Transformation Project Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Business Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Digital Product Owner
5 3 (7.50%) Product Owner
6 2 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Product Owner
6 2 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) .NET
1 2 (5.00%) AWS CDK
1 2 (5.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (2.50%) Node.js
2 1 (2.50%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.50%) Playwright
2 1 (2.50%) REST
2 1 (2.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.00%) Taxonomies
3 1 (2.50%) Acoustics
3 1 (2.50%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Android
1 2 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (32.50%) Agile
2 9 (22.50%) Business Analysis
2 9 (22.50%) Decision-Making
3 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.00%) Customer Experience
5 6 (15.00%) Project Management
5 6 (15.00%) Service Delivery
6 5 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 5 (12.50%) Business Case
6 5 (12.50%) Innovative Thinking
6 5 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 5 (12.50%) Service Design
6 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (12.50%) User Experience
7 4 (10.00%) Lean Thinking
7 4 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 4 (10.00%) Risk Register
7 4 (10.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (2.50%) Python
2 1 (2.50%) SQL
2 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) Degree
3 2 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.00%) Sparx
2 1 (2.50%) Civica
2 1 (2.50%) Google