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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 396 408
Rank change year-on-year -69 +12 +44
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 114 308 536
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.55% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.61% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 152 334
10th Percentile £320 £401 £450
25th Percentile £418 £466 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £569 £668
Median % change year-on-year +0.09% -14.79% +21.36%
75th Percentile £666 £725 £752
90th Percentile £773 £875 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £559 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -13.96% +4.00% +17.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £24.81 £73.50 £30.25
25th Percentile £36.75 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £78.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% +138.17% +10.55%
75th Percentile £58.75 £90.00 £39.94
90th Percentile £72.10 - £46.75
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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
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% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
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% -4.88%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 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 -42 99 £577 -1.45% 491
London -5 54 £570 +2.47% 334
UK excluding London +5 48 £559 -13.96% 150
Work from Home +28 36 £600 +6.67% 208
North of England +41 16 £577 -17.64% 40
North West +28 13 £577 - 30
Midlands +28 12 £600 +4.35% 20
South East -29 8 £615 -8.89% 47
West Midlands +15 6 £600 +4.35% 13
Scotland +39 5 £375 -61.54% 10
East Midlands +12 5 £600 -14.29% 7
South West +4 5 £475 -26.92% 17
Yorkshire +21 3 - - 7
East of England +6 1 - - 11
Northern Ireland - 1 £338 - 6

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 (4.39%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.75%) Apache
3 2 (1.75%) CMS
4 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.88%) Confluence
4 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (6.14%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (2.63%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.75%) Adobe XD
3 2 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.88%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.16%) Azure
2 11 (9.65%) AWS
3 9 (7.89%) Google Analytics
4 8 (7.02%) SaaS
5 6 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (4.39%) GCP
7 4 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.51%) PaaS
7 4 (3.51%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.51%) Slack
8 2 (1.75%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.75%) Canva
8 2 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.75%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.75%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.88%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.88%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (1.75%) Firewall
1 2 (1.75%) Intranet
1 2 (1.75%) Network Security
1 2 (1.75%) SNMP
1 2 (1.75%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.88%) DHCP
2 1 (0.88%) DNS
2 1 (0.88%) PBX
2 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.88%) VLAN
2 1 (0.88%) VoIP
2 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.63%) MongoDB
1 3 (2.63%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (1.75%) Big Data
2 2 (1.75%) DB2
2 2 (1.75%) Flink
2 2 (1.75%) MySQL
2 2 (1.75%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (1.75%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.75%) Power BI
2 2 (1.75%) SQLite
2 2 (1.75%) Tableau
3 1 (0.88%) Bigtable
3 1 (0.88%) CouchDB
3 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.88%) Looker
3 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.88%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 9 (7.89%) JIRA
2 4 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.63%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.75%) Axure RP
4 2 (1.75%) Balsamiq
4 2 (1.75%) Git
4 2 (1.75%) GitLab
4 2 (1.75%) JUnit
4 2 (1.75%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.88%) Darcs
5 1 (0.88%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.88%) JMeter
5 1 (0.88%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.88%) Postman
5 1 (0.88%) Travis CI
General
1 45 (39.47%) Social Skills
2 33 (28.95%) Finance
3 24 (21.05%) Marketing
4 13 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.39%) Retail
7 4 (3.51%) Advertising
7 4 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.63%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.63%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.75%) Law
9 2 (1.75%) Legal
9 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Automotive
10 1 (0.88%) Back Office
10 1 (0.88%) Front Office
10 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (17.54%) Architect
2 15 (13.16%) Consultant
3 8 (7.02%) Project Manager
4 7 (6.14%) Analyst
4 7 (6.14%) Senior
4 7 (6.14%) Technical Engineer
5 6 (5.26%) Lead
5 6 (5.26%) Marketing Manager
5 6 (5.26%) Security Architect
6 5 (4.39%) Communications Manager
6 5 (4.39%) Senior Manager
7 4 (3.51%) Analytics Consultant
7 4 (3.51%) AWS Architect
7 4 (3.51%) Business Analyst
7 4 (3.51%) Developer
7 4 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.63%) Applications Architect
8 3 (2.63%) Data Consultant
8 3 (2.63%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 3 (2.63%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.77%) .NET
2 5 (4.39%) CSS
2 5 (4.39%) HTML
3 4 (3.51%) Kafka
4 3 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.63%) jQuery
4 3 (2.63%) XML
5 2 (1.75%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.75%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (1.75%) Node.js
5 2 (1.75%) React
5 2 (1.75%) RxJava
5 2 (1.75%) Spring
5 2 (1.75%) Web Services
6 1 (0.88%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (0.88%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.88%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.88%) Google JAX
6 1 (0.88%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.77%) Social Media
2 9 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (6.14%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.51%) Marketing Technology
4 4 (3.51%) Video Editing
5 3 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.75%) Virtual Reality
6 2 (1.75%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.88%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.88%) Blog
7 1 (0.88%) CBDC
7 1 (0.88%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.88%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.88%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.88%) PKI
7 1 (0.88%) Solar Power
7 1 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.75%) Linux
1 2 (1.75%) Unix
1 2 (1.75%) Windows
2 1 (0.88%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (28.07%) Agile
2 24 (21.05%) Project Management
3 21 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (17.54%) Roadmaps
5 18 (15.79%) Analytics
6 16 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (13.16%) Data Modelling
8 13 (11.40%) CRM
8 13 (11.40%) Mentoring
9 12 (10.53%) Computer Science
9 12 (10.53%) Software Engineering
10 10 (8.77%) Logistics
10 10 (8.77%) Matrix Organization
10 10 (8.77%) User Acceptance Testing
11 9 (7.89%) Change Management
11 9 (7.89%) Data Engineering
11 9 (7.89%) Design Patterns
11 9 (7.89%) Use Case
12 8 (7.02%) Architectural Patterns
12 8 (7.02%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.54%) SQL
2 12 (10.53%) C#
3 9 (7.89%) Java
4 8 (7.02%) C++
5 7 (6.14%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.14%) PL/SQL
5 7 (6.14%) Python
5 7 (6.14%) VB.NET
5 7 (6.14%) VBA
6 2 (1.75%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.75%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.88%) C
7 1 (0.88%) Go
7 1 (0.88%) Julia
7 1 (0.88%) PHP
7 1 (0.88%) Ruby
7 1 (0.88%) Rust
7 1 (0.88%) Scala
7 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (19.30%) Degree
2 7 (6.14%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.39%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.39%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.75%) PhD
6 2 (1.75%) PMP
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.88%) CCNA CyberOps
7 1 (0.88%) CCNP
7 1 (0.88%) CISA
7 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.88%) CISM
7 1 (0.88%) CISSP
7 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.88%) SANS
7 1 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.14%) QA
2 5 (4.39%) NIST
3 4 (3.51%) PMO
4 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.75%) WCAG
5 1 (0.88%) COBIT
5 1 (0.88%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.88%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.75%) Nagios
2 2 (1.75%) OpenView
3 1 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.88%) Ansible
3 1 (0.88%) Grafana
3 1 (0.88%) Kibana
3 1 (0.88%) logstash
3 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.88%) Puppet
3 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.53%) Google
3 8 (7.02%) Databricks
3 8 (7.02%) Salesforce
4 7 (6.14%) Avaloq
5 6 (5.26%) Adobe
6 5 (4.39%) MuleSoft
7 4 (3.51%) Cisco
7 4 (3.51%) Oracle
8 3 (2.63%) SAP
8 3 (2.63%) Twitter
8 3 (2.63%) VMware
9 2 (1.75%) AlienVault
9 2 (1.75%) Ensighten
9 2 (1.75%) Greenplum
9 2 (1.75%) Informatica
9 2 (1.75%) Omniture
9 2 (1.75%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.75%) Talend
9 2 (1.75%) Tealium