Innovative Thinking Contracts with Work from Home Options

Innovative Thinking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 324 414 527
Rank change year-on-year +90 +113 -94
Contract jobs citing Innovative Thinking 17 43 96
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.20% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 56
10th Percentile £335 £247 £375
25th Percentile £411 £456 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +57.14%
75th Percentile £572 £563 £638
90th Percentile £696 £713 £740
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £16.60 £10.70
25th Percentile - £20.50 £11.00
Median hourly rate - £27.00 £12.00
Median % change year-on-year - +125.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Innovative Thinking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Innovative Thinking trend for jobs with a WFH option

Innovative Thinking
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 Innovative Thinking.

Innovative Thinking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Innovative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Innovative Thinking over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Innovative Thinking daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Innovative Thinking
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 Innovative Thinking.

Innovative Thinking hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Innovative Thinking
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 2 (11.76%) CMS
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) JBoss
2 1 (5.88%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (5.88%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) dbt
4 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.88%) Google Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) IaaS
4 1 (5.88%) iPaaS
4 1 (5.88%) PaaS
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) 5G
1 1 (5.88%) DHCP
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) LAN
1 1 (5.88%) LTE
1 1 (5.88%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
1 1 (5.88%) WAN
1 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) InfluxDB
2 1 (5.88%) Looker
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Local Government
5 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Configuration Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Finance Systems Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Financial Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Analytics Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) React
2 2 (11.76%) CSS
2 2 (11.76%) DOM
2 2 (11.76%) Express.js
2 2 (11.76%) HTML
2 2 (11.76%) Node.js
2 2 (11.76%) XML
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.88%) Django
3 1 (5.88%) Flask
3 1 (5.88%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (5.88%) J2EE
3 1 (5.88%) jQuery
3 1 (5.88%) Kafka
3 1 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) SOAP
3 1 (5.88%) Web Services
3 1 (5.88%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Digital Media
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) N-Tier
2 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
1 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) Project Delivery
4 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (23.53%) Use Case
5 3 (17.65%) Analytics
5 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (17.65%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Product Management
5 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
5 3 (17.65%) Scrum
5 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
6 2 (11.76%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (11.76%) Customer-Centric Approach
6 2 (11.76%) Customer-Centricity
6 2 (11.76%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) Bicep
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Puppet
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Control-M
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Adobe
2 2 (11.76%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Ariba
3 1 (5.88%) BMC
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Monetate
3 1 (5.88%) Optimizely
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.88%) VMware