Strategic Thinking Contracts in London

Strategic Thinking
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Strategic Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Strategic 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 253 273 308
Rank change year-on-year +20 +35 +48
Contract jobs citing Strategic Thinking 149 224 337
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.84% 0.89% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.98% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 143 197
10th Percentile £416 £400 £475
25th Percentile £463 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £655
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -8.40% +23.58%
75th Percentile £691 £700 £760
90th Percentile £836 £923 £825
England median daily rate £588 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -2.08% -2.04% +10.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £16.80 - £29.97
25th Percentile £31.53 £82.50 £37.87
Median hourly rate £67.50 £85.00 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% +60.38% +51.43%
75th Percentile £71.25 £87.50 £65.50
90th Percentile - - £68.65
England median hourly rate £70.00 £85.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -17.65% +28.79% +50.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Strategic 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 requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Strategic Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Strategic Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Strategic Thinking in London

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Strategic Thinking in London

Strategic Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Strategic Thinking in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in London

Strategic Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Strategic Thinking in London

Strategic Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Strategic Thinking in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Strategic Thinking in London

Strategic Thinking
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Strategic Thinking within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London +35 27 £600 +14.29% 12
West London +21 1 £588 +46.88% 14
Strategic Thinking
England

Strategic Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.67%) Mule
Applications
1 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.01%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.34%) Sketch
4 1 (0.67%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.67%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.67%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.67%) Final Cut Pro
4 1 (0.67%) InVision
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.67%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.67%) Trello
4 1 (0.67%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 5 (3.36%) Shopify
2 3 (2.01%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.67%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.67%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.67%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.09%) Azure
2 15 (10.07%) AWS
3 10 (6.71%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.70%) Figma
4 7 (4.70%) GCP
5 6 (4.03%) SaaS
6 5 (3.36%) BigCommerce
7 4 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.68%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.34%) Collibra
9 2 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.34%) Serverless
10 1 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.67%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.67%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.67%) Bloomreach
10 1 (0.67%) Contentsquare
10 1 (0.67%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.34%) DHCP
1 2 (1.34%) DNS
1 2 (1.34%) NetScaler
1 2 (1.34%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.67%) Firewall
2 1 (0.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.71%) Power BI
2 5 (3.36%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.36%) Tableau
3 3 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.01%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.34%) Big Data
4 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.34%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.34%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.34%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.67%) Metadata
5 1 (0.67%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.67%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 6 (4.03%) JIRA
2 4 (2.68%) LoadRunner
2 4 (2.68%) NeoLoad
3 3 (2.01%) Mockito
4 1 (0.67%) Git
4 1 (0.67%) Gradle
4 1 (0.67%) JUnit
4 1 (0.67%) Maven
4 1 (0.67%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.67%) Selenium
4 1 (0.67%) Serenity BDD
General
1 81 (54.36%) Social Skills
2 42 (28.19%) Finance
3 32 (21.48%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.07%) Presentation Skills
5 14 (9.40%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (8.05%) Marketing
7 11 (7.38%) Retail
8 9 (6.04%) Legal
8 9 (6.04%) Public Sector
9 7 (4.70%) Law
10 6 (4.03%) Banking
11 3 (2.01%) Advertising
11 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.01%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.34%) Brand Awareness
12 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.34%) Front Office
12 2 (1.34%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 20 (13.42%) Analyst
1 20 (13.42%) Senior
2 15 (10.07%) Architect
3 13 (8.72%) Lead
4 11 (7.38%) Business Analyst
4 11 (7.38%) Designer
5 10 (6.71%) Product Owner
6 8 (5.37%) Consultant
7 7 (4.70%) Product Manager
8 6 (4.03%) Project Manager
9 5 (3.36%) Head of Engineering
9 5 (3.36%) Programme Manager
9 5 (3.36%) Senior Manager
9 5 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.68%) Cloud Consultant
10 4 (2.68%) Developer
10 4 (2.68%) Migration Engineer
10 4 (2.68%) Senior Product Owner
10 4 (2.68%) Teradata Specialist
10 4 (2.68%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.01%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (2.01%) JAX-RS
1 3 (2.01%) Kafka
2 2 (1.34%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (0.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.67%) Django
3 1 (0.67%) Hugging Face
3 1 (0.67%) LangChain
3 1 (0.67%) Middleware
3 1 (0.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.67%) Swagger
3 1 (0.67%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.67%) VML
3 1 (0.67%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.40%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.04%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (4.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.36%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 4 (2.68%) Blockchain
6 3 (2.01%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.01%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.01%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.34%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.34%) Blog
7 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.34%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.34%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.34%) Graphic Design
7 2 (1.34%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.34%) Solar Power
8 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.67%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.67%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.01%) Linux
1 3 (2.01%) Mac OS X
1 3 (2.01%) Unix
1 3 (2.01%) Windows
2 2 (1.34%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.24%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (32.89%) Agile
3 26 (17.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 25 (16.78%) Roadmaps
5 24 (16.11%) Decision-Making
6 20 (13.42%) Mentoring
7 18 (12.08%) Project Management
8 17 (11.41%) Analytics
9 16 (10.74%) Coaching
9 16 (10.74%) Customer Experience
10 15 (10.07%) Change Management
10 15 (10.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (9.40%) Scrum
11 14 (9.40%) Service Design
11 14 (9.40%) User Experience
11 14 (9.40%) User Research
12 13 (8.72%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (8.05%) Migration
13 12 (8.05%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.04%) SQL
2 7 (4.70%) Java
2 7 (4.70%) Python
3 3 (2.01%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.01%) Ruby
4 2 (1.34%) Scala
5 1 (0.67%) Bash
5 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (12.08%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.41%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.74%) Degree
4 4 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.68%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.01%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.01%) MCSE
5 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.34%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.34%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (1.34%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (1.34%) CSPO
6 2 (1.34%) MCSA
6 2 (1.34%) PMP
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.67%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.04%) QA
2 4 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.01%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.01%) GDPR
3 3 (2.01%) GRC
4 2 (1.34%) PMO
4 2 (1.34%) SLA
5 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (4.70%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.36%) Docker
3 4 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.34%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.34%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (1.34%) XenApp
4 2 (1.34%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (3.36%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.36%) VxRail
2 4 (2.68%) PowerCLI
2 4 (2.68%) Terraform
3 1 (0.67%) Ansible
3 1 (0.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (9.40%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.05%) Salesforce
3 9 (6.04%) Dell
4 8 (5.37%) VMware
5 7 (4.70%) SAP
6 6 (4.03%) Adobe
7 5 (3.36%) Sitecore
8 4 (2.68%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (2.68%) Citrix
8 4 (2.68%) Google
8 4 (2.68%) Greenplum
8 4 (2.68%) iManage
8 4 (2.68%) Intapp
8 4 (2.68%) Netezza
8 4 (2.68%) OpenAI
8 4 (2.68%) Oracle
8 4 (2.68%) Sybase
8 4 (2.68%) Teradata
9 3 (2.01%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.34%) Alteryx