Creative Thinking Contracts

Creative Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Creative Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Creative Thinking 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 430 460 546
Rank change year-on-year +30 +86 -33
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 151 239 333
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.42% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.47% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 161 222
10th Percentile £313 £400 £313
25th Percentile £422 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £593 £638 £623
90th Percentile £638 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £443
% change year-on-year -6.82% +24.22% +10.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 38
10th Percentile £15.28 £15.21 -
25th Percentile £18.25 £29.49 £15.90
Median hourly rate £19.50 £48.00 £16.93
Median % change year-on-year -59.38% +183.52% -23.05%
75th Percentile £54.76 £58.75 £17.97
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.75 £42.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.01 £32.61 £16.93
% change year-on-year +38.04% +92.59% -20.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Creative 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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the UK

Creative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Creative Thinking in the UK

Creative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Creative Thinking over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Creative Thinking in the UK

Creative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Creative Thinking in the UK

Creative Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Creative Thinking over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Creative Thinking in the UK

Creative Thinking
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Creative Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +38 138 £508 -7.73% 316
UK excluding London +3 69 £513 -6.82% 177
London +69 67 £495 -10.00% 154
Work from Home +41 39 £515 -6.45% 120
South West +20 19 £625 +31.58% 20
South East -6 18 £500 -16.67% 58
North of England +30 17 £575 +4.55% 52
North West +21 11 £600 +20.00% 27
Midlands +1 9 £488 -27.78% 24
Scotland +41 6 £525 -2.33% 8
East Midlands +18 5 £513 +28.13% 14
Yorkshire +14 5 £350 -36.36% 21
West Midlands +3 4 £375 -44.44% 10
East of England +2 4 £488 +1.56% 15
Northern Ireland +3 1 £513 +28.13% 2

Creative 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 9 (5.96%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.31%) Confluence
3 3 (1.99%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (1.99%) CMS
4 1 (0.66%) Apache
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.66%) EPiServer
Applications
1 15 (9.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (7.28%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.64%) Adobe After Effects
3 7 (4.64%) Photoshop
4 6 (3.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (2.65%) Adobe Illustrator
5 4 (2.65%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (1.99%) Blender
6 3 (1.99%) Maya
6 3 (1.99%) MS Visio
7 2 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (1.32%) InDesign
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.66%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.66%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.66%) Sketch
8 1 (0.66%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (2.65%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.99%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.99%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 14 (9.27%) Azure
2 12 (7.95%) AWS
2 12 (7.95%) Figma
3 8 (5.30%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.97%) SaaS
6 5 (3.31%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (3.31%) GCP
7 3 (1.99%) Serverless
7 3 (1.99%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.32%) Azure API Management
8 2 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.32%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.32%) PaaS
9 1 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.66%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.66%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.66%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.97%) Internet
2 3 (1.99%) Intranet
2 3 (1.99%) NAS
2 3 (1.99%) SAN
3 2 (1.32%) Firewall
4 1 (0.66%) 3G
4 1 (0.66%) 4G
4 1 (0.66%) 5G
4 1 (0.66%) Broadband
4 1 (0.66%) DHCP
4 1 (0.66%) DNS
4 1 (0.66%) DSL
4 1 (0.66%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.66%) Network Security
4 1 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.66%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.64%) Power BI
2 4 (2.65%) SAP HANA
2 4 (2.65%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.65%) Tableau
3 3 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.99%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.32%) MySQL
5 1 (0.66%) Big Data
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (5.30%) JIRA
2 6 (3.97%) Git
3 4 (2.65%) JUnit
3 4 (2.65%) Selenium
4 3 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.99%) RStudio
5 2 (1.32%) Axure RP
5 2 (1.32%) Gerrit
5 2 (1.32%) Postman
5 2 (1.32%) Serenity BDD
5 2 (1.32%) TestNG
5 2 (1.32%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.66%) Darcs
6 1 (0.66%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.66%) Protractor
6 1 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.66%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 80 (52.98%) Social Skills
2 34 (22.52%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (18.54%) Finance
4 25 (16.56%) Legal
5 17 (11.26%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (9.93%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (9.27%) Marketing
8 11 (7.28%) Law
9 9 (5.96%) Banking
9 9 (5.96%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (5.96%) Public Sector
9 9 (5.96%) Retail
10 5 (3.31%) Games
11 4 (2.65%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.99%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.99%) Electronics
12 3 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.99%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.32%) Local Government
13 2 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 23 (15.23%) Analyst
2 21 (13.91%) Designer
3 13 (8.61%) Senior
4 9 (5.96%) Business Analyst
4 9 (5.96%) Lead
5 8 (5.30%) Developer
5 8 (5.30%) Service Designer
6 7 (4.64%) SAP Analyst
7 6 (3.97%) Architect
7 6 (3.97%) Integration Analyst
7 6 (3.97%) Procurement Officer
7 6 (3.97%) Test Engineer
8 5 (3.31%) Senior Test Engineer
9 4 (2.65%) Business Integration Analyst
9 4 (2.65%) Coordinator
9 4 (2.65%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (2.65%) Integration Specialist
10 3 (1.99%) Digital Designer
10 3 (1.99%) Senior Designer
10 3 (1.99%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.99%) CSS
1 3 (1.99%) EDI
1 3 (1.99%) REST
1 3 (1.99%) Swagger
1 3 (1.99%) Unreal Engine
2 2 (1.32%) HTML
2 2 (1.32%) OpenAPI
3 1 (0.66%) .NET
3 1 (0.66%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.66%) jQuery
3 1 (0.66%) JSON
3 1 (0.66%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (0.66%) NestJS
3 1 (0.66%) Next.js
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.66%) Prisma
3 1 (0.66%) React
3 1 (0.66%) Visualforce
3 1 (0.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.26%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (7.28%) Management Information System
3 10 (6.62%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.96%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.31%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.31%) Graphic Design
6 3 (1.99%) Animation
6 3 (1.99%) Augmented Reality
6 3 (1.99%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.99%) Virtual Reality
7 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.32%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.32%) Social Media
8 1 (0.66%) Blog
8 1 (0.66%) CBDC
8 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.66%) NHS
8 1 (0.66%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.66%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.97%) Windows
2 2 (1.32%) Linux
2 2 (1.32%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (37.75%) Problem-Solving
2 42 (27.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (26.49%) Agile
4 22 (14.57%) Decision-Making
5 20 (13.25%) Business Analysis
5 20 (13.25%) Project Management
6 17 (11.26%) Strategic Thinking
7 16 (10.60%) Artificial Intelligence
8 15 (9.93%) Change Management
9 14 (9.27%) Customer Experience
9 14 (9.27%) Scrum
10 13 (8.61%) Impact Assessments
11 12 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (7.95%) Customer-Centricity
11 12 (7.95%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (7.95%) Data Protection
11 12 (7.95%) Data Strategy
11 12 (7.95%) Design Thinking
12 11 (7.28%) Scenario Testing
13 10 (6.62%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.62%) Python
2 8 (5.30%) SQL
3 5 (3.31%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.65%) C#
4 4 (2.65%) Java
5 3 (1.99%) C++
6 2 (1.32%) Bicep
6 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.66%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.66%) C
7 1 (0.66%) Go
7 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.66%) Rust
7 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (17.88%) Degree
2 21 (13.91%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.93%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.30%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.31%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.65%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.99%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (1.99%) CIPD
7 3 (1.99%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 3 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.32%) CBAP
8 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.66%) CSPO
9 1 (0.66%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.66%) IIBA
9 1 (0.66%) ISEB
9 1 (0.66%) MBA
9 1 (0.66%) PMP
9 1 (0.66%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.62%) GDPR
2 8 (5.30%) QA
3 4 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.32%) PMO
5 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.66%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (1.99%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (1.99%) vSphere
2 2 (1.32%) Docker
3 1 (0.66%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
1 2 (1.32%) Puppet
1 2 (1.32%) Terraform
2 1 (0.66%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.66%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (20.53%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.27%) Oracle
3 12 (7.95%) SAP
4 6 (3.97%) Adobe
5 3 (1.99%) BT
5 3 (1.99%) Citrix
5 3 (1.99%) HP
5 3 (1.99%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.99%) VMware
6 2 (1.32%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.32%) Cadence
6 2 (1.32%) OpenText
7 1 (0.66%) Google
7 1 (0.66%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.66%) Qualtrics
7 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.66%) Sparx
7 1 (0.66%) Splunk
7 1 (0.66%) Zscaler