Innovative Thinking Contracts

Innovative Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Innovative Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Innovative Thinking over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 517 601 623
Rank change year-on-year +84 +22 -25
Contract jobs citing Innovative Thinking 58 81 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.14% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.16% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 46 114
10th Percentile £231 £394 £341
25th Percentile £396 £453 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +32.95%
75th Percentile £650 £622 £658
90th Percentile £738 £681 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £390 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -25.71% +5.00% +37.93%
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% -35.14%
75th Percentile £20.75 £33.50 £13.00
90th Percentile - £37.40 £13.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £27.00 £12.00
% change year-on-year - +125.00% -35.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Innovative 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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Innovative Thinking over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +67 51 £500 -4.76% 193
London +91 34 £550 +4.76% 67
UK excluding London +26 19 £390 -25.71% 141
Work from Home +82 16 £500 -4.76% 96
Midlands +23 7 £325 - 30
Scotland +39 5 £200 -61.90% 7
West Midlands +14 5 £300 - 17
South East +4 4 £508 -3.33% 27
North of England +22 2 £725 +38.10% 41
North West +21 2 £725 - 25
East Midlands +12 2 £488 - 13
South West +5 1 £575 - 19

Innovative 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 2 (3.45%) CMS
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.72%) JBoss
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.72%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.17%) Photoshop
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (3.45%) iTrent
3 1 (1.72%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.41%) Azure
2 6 (10.34%) AWS
3 4 (6.90%) IaaS
3 4 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (5.17%) GCP
4 3 (5.17%) iPaaS
4 3 (5.17%) PaaS
5 2 (3.45%) SaaS
6 1 (1.72%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.72%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.72%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.72%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.17%) LAN
1 3 (5.17%) WAN
2 1 (1.72%) 5G
2 1 (1.72%) DHCP
2 1 (1.72%) DNS
2 1 (1.72%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) LTE
2 1 (1.72%) Network Security
2 1 (1.72%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.72%) SAN
2 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.72%) VPN
2 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Power BI
1 3 (5.17%) Tableau
2 2 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
2 2 (3.45%) Power Query
2 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.72%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.72%) Looker
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.72%) Terragrunt
General
1 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 19 (32.76%) Finance
3 17 (29.31%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (18.97%) Public Sector
5 10 (17.24%) Banking
6 9 (15.52%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (15.52%) Retail
7 5 (8.62%) Investment Banking
8 4 (6.90%) Marketing
9 3 (5.17%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (5.17%) German Language
9 3 (5.17%) Local Government
9 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
9 3 (5.17%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.72%) French Language
10 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.72%) Legal
10 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.72%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (20.69%) Architect
2 10 (17.24%) Analyst
3 8 (13.79%) Senior
4 7 (12.07%) Consultant
5 4 (6.90%) Business Architect
5 4 (6.90%) Business Consultant
5 4 (6.90%) Developer
5 4 (6.90%) Technical Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Digital Product Owner
6 3 (5.17%) Product Owner
6 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.17%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Data Scientist
7 2 (3.45%) Designer
7 2 (3.45%) Finance Systems Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Product Owner
7 2 (3.45%) Service Desk Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) Flask
2 3 (5.17%) .NET
2 3 (5.17%) CSS
2 3 (5.17%) J2EE
2 3 (5.17%) Pandas
2 3 (5.17%) React
2 3 (5.17%) Web Services
3 2 (3.45%) DOM
3 2 (3.45%) Express.js
3 2 (3.45%) HTML
3 2 (3.45%) jQuery
3 2 (3.45%) Middleware
3 2 (3.45%) Node.js
3 2 (3.45%) REST
3 2 (3.45%) XML
4 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.72%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (1.72%) Kafka
4 1 (1.72%) Matplotlib
4 1 (1.72%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Digital Media
2 5 (8.62%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.17%) Client/Server
3 3 (5.17%) N-Tier
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Windows
2 2 (3.45%) Linux
2 2 (3.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (53.45%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (25.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (24.14%) Agile
4 9 (15.52%) Roadmaps
4 9 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (15.52%) Use Case
5 8 (13.79%) Analytics
5 8 (13.79%) Creative Thinking
6 7 (12.07%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (12.07%) Data Analytics
6 7 (12.07%) Decision-Making
6 7 (12.07%) Project Delivery
7 6 (10.34%) Scrum
8 5 (8.62%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (8.62%) Customer Engagement
8 5 (8.62%) Data Management
8 5 (8.62%) Data Modelling
8 5 (8.62%) Enterprise Architecture
8 5 (8.62%) Project Management
8 5 (8.62%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.34%) Python
2 5 (8.62%) SQL
3 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.45%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.72%) Bicep
5 1 (1.72%) PHP
5 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) Degree
1 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
1 2 (3.45%) HNC
1 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Hyper-V
1 4 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.45%) Puppet
1 2 (3.45%) Terraform
2 1 (1.72%) Ansible
2 1 (1.72%) Control-M
2 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) Oracle
3 4 (6.90%) VMware
4 2 (3.45%) Adobe
4 2 (3.45%) Cloudera
4 2 (3.45%) Google
4 2 (3.45%) SAP
5 1 (1.72%) Ariba
5 1 (1.72%) BMC
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco
5 1 (1.72%) Databricks
5 1 (1.72%) IBM
5 1 (1.72%) Monetate
5 1 (1.72%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow