Creative Thinking Contracts in the West Midlands

Creative Thinking
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 109 170
Rank change year-on-year -5 +61 -39
Contract jobs citing Creative Thinking 2 20 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.100% 0.90% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 1.03% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 14 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £675 £406
Median % change year-on-year - +66.26% +19.41%
England median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,649 1,938 3,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.24% 87.65% 90.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,313 2,350
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £586
90th Percentile £734 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

Creative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Creative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Creative Thinking in the West Midlands

Creative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Creative Thinking in the West Midlands

Creative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Creative Thinking in the West Midlands

Creative Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
Birmingham +10 1 - - 4
Worcestershire - 1 - -
Creative Thinking
England

Creative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Task-Oriented
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft