Thought Leadership Contracts with Work from Home Options

Thought Leadership
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 Thought Leadership skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Thought Leadership 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 302 335 383
Rank change year-on-year +33 +48 +1
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 39 121 244
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.49% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.54% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 68 149
10th Percentile £423 £425 £473
25th Percentile £504 £483 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -14.81% +22.73%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £775
90th Percentile £750 £800 £900
UK median daily rate £568 £579 £675
% change year-on-year -1.78% -14.26% +22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.50
Median hourly rate £81.00 - £33.00
75th Percentile - - £34.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £49.50 £78.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -36.54% +136.36% +11.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Thought Leadership 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 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Thought Leadership
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Thought Leadership trend for jobs with a WFH option

Thought Leadership
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 Thought Leadership.

Thought Leadership daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Thought Leadership over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Thought Leadership daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 Thought Leadership.

Thought Leadership hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Thought Leadership
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 (2.56%) Confluence
1 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.56%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle AGIS
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Retail
1 1 (2.56%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) Azure
2 5 (12.82%) AWS
2 5 (12.82%) Google Analytics
3 4 (10.26%) GCP
3 4 (10.26%) SaaS
4 3 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.56%) GitHub
5 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.56%) Lucidchart
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.56%) PaaS
5 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) Firewall
2 2 (5.13%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (5.13%) LAN
2 2 (5.13%) Multicast
2 2 (5.13%) SNMP
2 2 (5.13%) WAN
2 2 (5.13%) Wireshark
3 1 (2.56%) DHCP
3 1 (2.56%) DNS
3 1 (2.56%) Network Security
3 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.56%) CouchDB
2 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.56%) MySQL
2 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.56%) Redis
2 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.56%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.56%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Axure RP
2 1 (2.56%) Balsamiq
2 1 (2.56%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.56%) Darcs
2 1 (2.56%) Git
2 1 (2.56%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.56%) JMeter
2 1 (2.56%) JUnit
2 1 (2.56%) LSMW
2 1 (2.56%) Mercurial
2 1 (2.56%) Travis CI
General
1 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Finance
3 7 (17.95%) Marketing
4 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Advertising
6 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Retail
6 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Legal
7 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Architect
2 6 (15.38%) Consultant
3 4 (10.26%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (10.26%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Communications Manager
4 3 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 3 (7.69%) Functional Consultant
4 3 (7.69%) Security Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Analytics Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Data Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Integration Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Senior
5 2 (5.13%) Technical Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Technology Integration Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) .NET
2 3 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.13%) CSS
3 2 (5.13%) HTML
3 2 (5.13%) LDAP
4 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.56%) BAPI
4 1 (2.56%) EDI
4 1 (2.56%) IDoc
4 1 (2.56%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (2.56%) React
4 1 (2.56%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) RxJava
4 1 (2.56%) SAP ALE
4 1 (2.56%) Svelte
4 1 (2.56%) Tapestry
4 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.13%) Social Media
2 2 (5.13%) Video Editing
3 1 (2.56%) CBDC
3 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.56%) Digital Currency
3 1 (2.56%) Housing Association
3 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.56%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (2.56%) PKI
3 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Linux
1 2 (5.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.08%) Roadmaps
2 8 (20.51%) Data Modelling
2 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (20.51%) Use Case
2 8 (20.51%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (17.95%) Computer Science
4 6 (15.38%) Agile
4 6 (15.38%) Analytics
5 5 (12.82%) Change Management
5 5 (12.82%) Conceptual Models
5 5 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (12.82%) Data Engineering
5 5 (12.82%) Logical Data Model
6 4 (10.26%) Asset Management
6 4 (10.26%) Data Analysis
6 4 (10.26%) Data Transformation
6 4 (10.26%) Economics
6 4 (10.26%) Migration
6 4 (10.26%) Software Engineering
7 3 (7.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) SQL
2 5 (12.82%) C#
2 5 (12.82%) C++
3 4 (10.26%) VB.NET
3 4 (10.26%) VBA
4 2 (5.13%) Java
4 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.13%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.56%) ABAP
5 1 (2.56%) C
5 1 (2.56%) Go
5 1 (2.56%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.56%) Python
5 1 (2.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Degree
2 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.56%) MBA
5 1 (2.56%) PhD
5 1 (2.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) NIST
2 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.56%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Nagios
1 2 (5.13%) OpenView
2 1 (2.56%) Ansible
2 1 (2.56%) Grafana
2 1 (2.56%) Kibana
2 1 (2.56%) logstash
2 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.56%) Puppet
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (23.08%) Google
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.82%) Databricks
4 4 (10.26%) Cisco
5 2 (5.13%) Adobe
5 2 (5.13%) AlienVault
5 2 (5.13%) Avaloq
5 2 (5.13%) F5
5 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.13%) Genesys
5 2 (5.13%) Instagram
5 2 (5.13%) MuleSoft
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle
5 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.13%) SAP
5 2 (5.13%) SolarWinds
5 2 (5.13%) Twitter
6 1 (2.56%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (2.56%) Cognizant
6 1 (2.56%) Splunk