Innovative Thinking Contracts in England

Innovative Thinking
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Innovative Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Innovative Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 496 569 609
Rank change year-on-year +73 +40 -71
Contract jobs citing Innovative Thinking 54 67 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.14% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.16% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 35 99
10th Percentile £275 £265 £332
25th Percentile £420 £463 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +45.45%
75th Percentile £650 £631 £688
90th Percentile £745 £713 £753
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile - £16.60 £10.70
25th Percentile £18.25 £20.50 £11.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £27.00 £12.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +125.00% -28.36%
75th Percentile £20.75 £33.50 £13.00
90th Percentile - £37.40 £13.30
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £27.00 £12.00
% change year-on-year -27.78% +125.00% -28.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Innovative Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Innovative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in England

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Innovative Thinking in England

Innovative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Innovative Thinking in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Innovative Thinking in England

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Innovative Thinking in England

Innovative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Innovative Thinking within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
London +82 35 £550 +4.76% 67
Midlands +17 7 £325 - 34
West Midlands +18 5 £300 - 21
South East +9 4 £508 -7.73% 39
South West +3 3 £725 - 20
North of England +16 2 £725 +38.10% 42
North West +15 2 £725 - 28
East Midlands +7 2 £488 - 13
Innovative Thinking
UK

Innovative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (3.70%) CMS
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.85%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.85%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (7.41%) AWS
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (7.41%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.56%) GCP
4 2 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.70%) SaaS
5 1 (1.85%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.85%) Azure AI
5 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.85%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.85%) IaaS
5 1 (1.85%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.85%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) 5G
1 1 (1.85%) DHCP
1 1 (1.85%) DNS
1 1 (1.85%) Firewall
1 1 (1.85%) LTE
1 1 (1.85%) Network Security
1 1 (1.85%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (1.85%) SAN
1 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.85%) VPN
1 1 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) Power BI
1 3 (5.56%) Tableau
2 2 (3.70%) Data Mining
2 2 (3.70%) Power Query
3 1 (1.85%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.85%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.85%) Looker
3 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Git
2 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.85%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (31.48%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (29.63%) Finance
4 9 (16.67%) Banking
4 9 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (16.67%) Retail
5 8 (14.81%) Public Sector
6 5 (9.26%) Investment Banking
7 4 (7.41%) Marketing
8 3 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (5.56%) German Language
8 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
8 3 (5.56%) Retail Banking
9 2 (3.70%) Legal
10 1 (1.85%) French Language
10 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.85%) Local Government
10 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (18.52%) Analyst
1 10 (18.52%) Architect
2 7 (12.96%) Consultant
3 6 (11.11%) Senior
4 4 (7.41%) Business Architect
4 4 (7.41%) Business Consultant
4 4 (7.41%) Developer
4 4 (7.41%) Product Owner
5 3 (5.56%) Digital Product Owner
5 3 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Data Scientist
6 2 (3.70%) Designer
6 2 (3.70%) Finance Systems Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Lead
6 2 (3.70%) Product Designer
6 2 (3.70%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Senior Product Owner
6 2 (3.70%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) Flask
2 3 (5.56%) CSS
2 3 (5.56%) Pandas
2 3 (5.56%) React
3 2 (3.70%) DOM
3 2 (3.70%) Express.js
3 2 (3.70%) HTML
3 2 (3.70%) jQuery
3 2 (3.70%) Middleware
3 2 (3.70%) Node.js
3 2 (3.70%) XML
4 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.85%) Dask
4 1 (1.85%) Django
4 1 (1.85%) Kafka
4 1 (1.85%) Matplotlib
4 1 (1.85%) NumPy
4 1 (1.85%) REST
4 1 (1.85%) Symfony
4 1 (1.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Digital Media
1 6 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (3.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.85%) FMCG
3 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Windows
2 2 (3.70%) Linux
2 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (31.48%) Agile
3 14 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (16.67%) Use Case
5 8 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (14.81%) Creative Thinking
5 8 (14.81%) Roadmaps
5 8 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (12.96%) Analytics
6 7 (12.96%) Data Analytics
6 7 (12.96%) Decision-Making
6 7 (12.96%) Project Management
6 7 (12.96%) Scrum
7 6 (11.11%) DevOps
8 5 (9.26%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 5 (9.26%) CI/CD
8 5 (9.26%) Strategic Roadmap
8 5 (9.26%) Systems Thinking
8 5 (9.26%) Target Operating Model
8 5 (9.26%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.11%) Python
2 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
2 4 (7.41%) SQL
3 2 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.85%) Bicep
4 1 (1.85%) PHP
4 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) Degree
1 4 (7.41%) DV Cleared
1 4 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.70%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.70%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.70%) PMP
3 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.85%) GDPR
2 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.70%) Docker
3 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.70%) Puppet
1 2 (3.70%) Terraform
2 1 (1.85%) Ansible
2 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.26%) Oracle
3 2 (3.70%) Adobe
3 2 (3.70%) Cloudera
3 2 (3.70%) Google
3 2 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (1.85%) Ariba
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco
4 1 (1.85%) Monetate
4 1 (1.85%) Optimizely
4 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.85%) VMware