Thought Leadership Contracts

Thought Leadership
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 459 406 412
Rank change year-on-year -53 +6 +20
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 120 308 544
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.54% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.60% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 158 331
10th Percentile £320 £406 £454
25th Percentile £415 £471 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £579 £675
Median % change year-on-year -1.78% -14.26% +22.73%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £763
90th Percentile £750 £839 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £638 £625
% change year-on-year -13.73% +2.00% +17.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £26.80 £72.00 £30.45
25th Percentile £38.88 £74.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £49.50 £78.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.54% +136.36% +11.39%
75th Percentile £57.50 £84.00 £44.63
90th Percentile £69.88 £87.60 £49.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.93 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -37.28% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 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%

Thought Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Thought Leadership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership.

Daily rate trend for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thought Leadership over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Thought Leadership.

Hourly rate trend for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Thought Leadership over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Thought Leadership in the UK

Thought Leadership
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 Thought Leadership 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 -22 102 £577 -2.49% 414
London -3 57 £550 -7.56% 253
UK excluding London +9 47 £550 -13.73% 184
Work from Home +33 39 £600 +4.35% 193
North of England +41 16 £577 -5.88% 44
North West +27 13 £577 +9.81% 25
Midlands +24 13 £600 +25.00% 25
West Midlands +23 7 £600 +13.74% 18
Scotland +36 6 £388 -44.64% 6
South East -15 6 £533 -13.06% 72
East Midlands +20 5 £600 +33.33% 7
South West +4 4 £475 -26.92% 17
Yorkshire +19 3 - - 13
East of England +8 1 - - 13
Northern Ireland - 1 £338 - 7

Thought Leadership
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 5 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.67%) CMS
3 1 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.83%) Apache
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (2.50%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.83%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.83%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.83%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.83%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.83%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.33%) Azure
2 12 (10.00%) AWS
3 9 (7.50%) Google Analytics
4 8 (6.67%) SaaS
5 6 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (5.00%) GCP
6 5 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.33%) PaaS
7 4 (3.33%) Slack
8 2 (1.67%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.67%) Canva
8 2 (1.67%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.67%) GitHub
8 2 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.67%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.83%) Azure API Management
9 1 (0.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.83%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.33%) Firewall
2 2 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (1.67%) Intranet
2 2 (1.67%) LAN
2 2 (1.67%) Multicast
2 2 (1.67%) Network Security
2 2 (1.67%) SNMP
2 2 (1.67%) WAN
2 2 (1.67%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.83%) DHCP
3 1 (0.83%) DNS
3 1 (0.83%) Internet
3 1 (0.83%) PBX
3 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.83%) VLAN
3 1 (0.83%) VoIP
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.50%) MongoDB
1 3 (2.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (1.67%) DB2
2 2 (1.67%) MySQL
2 2 (1.67%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (1.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.67%) Power BI
2 2 (1.67%) SAP HANA
2 2 (1.67%) SQLite
2 2 (1.67%) Tableau
3 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.83%) CouchDB
3 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.83%) Flink
3 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.83%) HBase
3 1 (0.83%) Looker
3 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (7.50%) JIRA
2 5 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.50%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.67%) Git
4 2 (1.67%) GitLab
4 2 (1.67%) JUnit
4 2 (1.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.83%) Appium
5 1 (0.83%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.83%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.83%) Darcs
5 1 (0.83%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.83%) JMeter
5 1 (0.83%) LSMW
5 1 (0.83%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.83%) Postman
5 1 (0.83%) Selenium
5 1 (0.83%) Travis CI
General
1 47 (39.17%) Social Skills
2 35 (29.17%) Finance
3 25 (20.83%) Marketing
4 11 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.17%) Retail
7 4 (3.33%) Advertising
7 4 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.67%) Banking
9 2 (1.67%) Law
9 2 (1.67%) Legal
9 2 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.83%) French Language
10 1 (0.83%) German Language
Job Titles
1 27 (22.50%) Architect
2 14 (11.67%) Consultant
3 8 (6.67%) Lead
3 8 (6.67%) Project Manager
3 8 (6.67%) Senior
4 7 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (5.83%) Technical Engineer
5 6 (5.00%) Analyst
5 6 (5.00%) Marketing Manager
5 6 (5.00%) Security Architect
6 5 (4.17%) Communications Manager
6 5 (4.17%) Senior Manager
7 4 (3.33%) Analytics Consultant
7 4 (3.33%) AWS Architect
7 4 (3.33%) Developer
8 3 (2.50%) Applications Architect
8 3 (2.50%) Business Analyst
8 3 (2.50%) Data Consultant
8 3 (2.50%) Functional Consultant
8 3 (2.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.33%) .NET
2 4 (3.33%) CSS
2 4 (3.33%) HTML
3 3 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.50%) jQuery
3 3 (2.50%) XML
4 2 (1.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.67%) Jetpack Compose
4 2 (1.67%) Kafka
4 2 (1.67%) LDAP
4 2 (1.67%) Node.js
4 2 (1.67%) React
4 2 (1.67%) RxJava
4 2 (1.67%) Spring
4 2 (1.67%) Web Services
5 1 (0.83%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (0.83%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.83%) J2EE
5 1 (0.83%) Playwright
5 1 (0.83%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
1 10 (8.33%) Social Media
2 6 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.33%) Marketing Technology
3 4 (3.33%) Video Editing
4 3 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.67%) Blog
5 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.67%) Virtual Reality
5 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.83%) Blackberry
6 1 (0.83%) CBDC
6 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.83%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.83%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.83%) Life Science
6 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.67%) Linux
1 2 (1.67%) Unix
1 2 (1.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.83%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (25.00%) Agile
2 24 (20.00%) Project Management
3 23 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 16 (13.33%) Analytics
6 15 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (11.67%) Data Modelling
7 14 (11.67%) Mentoring
8 13 (10.83%) Computer Science
8 13 (10.83%) CRM
9 12 (10.00%) Software Engineering
10 10 (8.33%) Logistics
10 10 (8.33%) Matrix Organization
10 10 (8.33%) Use Case
10 10 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
11 9 (7.50%) Change Management
11 9 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (7.50%) Design Patterns
11 9 (7.50%) Requirements Gathering
12 8 (6.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (16.67%) SQL
2 12 (10.00%) C#
3 9 (7.50%) Java
4 8 (6.67%) C++
5 7 (5.83%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.83%) PL/SQL
5 7 (5.83%) VB.NET
5 7 (5.83%) VBA
6 6 (5.00%) Python
7 3 (2.50%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.67%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.83%) ABAP
9 1 (0.83%) C
9 1 (0.83%) Go
9 1 (0.83%) PHP
9 1 (0.83%) Ruby
9 1 (0.83%) Rust
9 1 (0.83%) Scala
9 1 (0.83%) Swift
9 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (20.00%) Degree
2 7 (5.83%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.00%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.50%) PhD
6 2 (1.67%) PMP
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.83%) CCNA CyberOps
7 1 (0.83%) CCNP
7 1 (0.83%) CISA
7 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.83%) CISM
7 1 (0.83%) CISSP
7 1 (0.83%) MBA
7 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.83%) SANS
7 1 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.67%) QA
2 5 (4.17%) NIST
3 4 (3.33%) PMO
4 2 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.83%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.83%) Docker
3 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.67%) Nagios
2 2 (1.67%) OpenView
3 1 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.83%) Ansible
3 1 (0.83%) Grafana
3 1 (0.83%) Kibana
3 1 (0.83%) logstash
3 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.83%) Puppet
3 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.67%) Google
3 8 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.83%) Avaloq
4 7 (5.83%) Databricks
5 6 (5.00%) Cisco
6 5 (4.17%) Adobe
6 5 (4.17%) MuleSoft
6 5 (4.17%) SAP
7 4 (3.33%) Oracle
8 3 (2.50%) F5
8 3 (2.50%) Genesys
8 3 (2.50%) Informatica
8 3 (2.50%) Twitter
8 3 (2.50%) VMware
9 2 (1.67%) AlienVault
9 2 (1.67%) Ensighten
9 2 (1.67%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.67%) Talend
9 2 (1.67%) Tealium