Strategic Thinking Contracts with Work from Home Options

Strategic Thinking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 219 331 346
Rank change year-on-year +112 +15 +4
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 121 135 293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.82% 0.55% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.61% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 97 208
10th Percentile £477 £412 £417
25th Percentile £522 £480 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £586 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.33% +2.56%
75th Percentile £700 £678 £738
90th Percentile £835 £788 £791
UK median daily rate £584 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.75% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,053 22,182 40,030
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.02% 89.73% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,754 15,684 29,076
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 510 541
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.44 £27.48 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.93 £37.78
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +40.11% +54.18%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%

Strategic Thinking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Strategic Thinking trend for jobs with a WFH option

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Strategic Thinking.

Strategic Thinking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Strategic Thinking over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Strategic Thinking daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Strategic Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Strategic Thinking.

Strategic Thinking hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (0.83%) CMS
1 1 (0.83%) Confluence
1 1 (0.83%) Mule
Applications
1 8 (6.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.31%) Adobe After Effects
3 4 (3.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (3.31%) Adobe Premiere
3 4 (3.31%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) SAP CO
1 2 (1.65%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.65%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.65%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.83%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 10 (8.26%) Azure
2 6 (4.96%) AWS
2 6 (4.96%) SaaS
3 5 (4.13%) GCP
3 5 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.65%) IaaS
5 2 (1.65%) PaaS
5 2 (1.65%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.65%) Serverless
6 1 (0.83%) iPaaS
6 1 (0.83%) Miro
6 1 (0.83%) Route 53
6 1 (0.83%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.13%) Kerberos
2 4 (3.31%) VSAN
3 3 (2.48%) WAN
4 2 (1.65%) Firewall
4 2 (1.65%) Wireless
5 1 (0.83%) LAN
5 1 (0.83%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.13%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.65%) Power BI
2 2 (1.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.83%) MySQL
3 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.83%) Tableau
3 1 (0.83%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 8 (6.61%) JIRA
General
1 50 (41.32%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.83%) Public Sector
3 23 (19.01%) Finance
3 23 (19.01%) Telecoms
4 18 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (10.74%) Marketing
6 11 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.48%) Retail
9 2 (1.65%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.65%) Front Office
9 2 (1.65%) Legal
9 2 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.83%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.83%) Electronics
10 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (36.36%) Lead
2 38 (31.40%) Architect
3 23 (19.01%) Lead Architect
4 22 (18.18%) Network Architect
4 22 (18.18%) Systems Architect
5 21 (17.36%) Senior
6 13 (10.74%) Designer
7 11 (9.09%) Consultant
8 7 (5.79%) Senior Manager
8 7 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.96%) Lead Designer
10 5 (4.13%) Analyst
10 5 (4.13%) Product Owner
10 5 (4.13%) Project Manager
11 4 (3.31%) Business Analyst
11 4 (3.31%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (3.31%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.31%) Creative Designer
11 4 (3.31%) Creative Director
11 4 (3.31%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.13%) OAuth
1 5 (4.13%) OpenID
1 5 (4.13%) SAML
2 2 (1.65%) JSON
2 2 (1.65%) REST
2 2 (1.65%) SOAP
2 2 (1.65%) Swagger
3 1 (0.83%) .NET
3 1 (0.83%) Django
3 1 (0.83%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.83%) J2EE
3 1 (0.83%) Middleware
3 1 (0.83%) Servlets
3 1 (0.83%) Spring
3 1 (0.83%) Spring Security
3 1 (0.83%) Web Services
3 1 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.66%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (5.79%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.96%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.13%) CMDB
4 5 (4.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 4 (3.31%) Motion Graphics
5 4 (3.31%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 3 (2.48%) Animation
6 3 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.65%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.65%) Blog
7 2 (1.65%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.65%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.83%) Photography
8 1 (0.83%) Robotics
8 1 (0.83%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (23.14%) Agile
1 28 (23.14%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (19.01%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (18.18%) Network Management
4 21 (17.36%) Business Analysis
4 21 (17.36%) Systems Engineering
5 20 (16.53%) Service Management
6 19 (15.70%) Configuration Management
7 18 (14.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (14.05%) User Research
8 17 (14.05%) User Stories
9 16 (13.22%) Analytics
9 16 (13.22%) Coaching
10 15 (12.40%) Customer Experience
11 12 (9.92%) Project Delivery
12 11 (9.09%) Business Case
12 11 (9.09%) Change Management
12 11 (9.09%) Data Analytics
12 11 (9.09%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
13 10 (8.26%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.96%) SQL
2 2 (1.65%) Java
3 1 (0.83%) Python
3 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (38.02%) SC Cleared
1 46 (38.02%) Security Cleared
2 32 (26.45%) Degree
3 4 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.48%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.48%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.48%) MBA
5 2 (1.65%) CISSP
5 2 (1.65%) PhD
6 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.83%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.31%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.65%) QA
3 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (4.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.31%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.31%) vSphere
3 3 (2.48%) Docker
4 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (4.13%) PingFederate
2 4 (3.31%) vCenter Server
2 4 (3.31%) VxRail
3 3 (2.48%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.48%) Terraform
4 2 (1.65%) Grafana
5 1 (0.83%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (11.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.13%) Ping Identity
2 5 (4.13%) VMware
3 4 (3.31%) Adobe
3 4 (3.31%) Dell
3 4 (3.31%) SAP
4 2 (1.65%) Cisco
4 2 (1.65%) Okta
5 1 (0.83%) Google
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle
5 1 (0.83%) Pega
5 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (0.83%) TIBCO
5 1 (0.83%) Workday