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 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 489 417 418
Rank change year-on-year -72 +1 +23
Contract jobs citing Thought Leadership 113 289 530
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.52% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.58% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 145 328
10th Percentile £320 £403 £451
25th Percentile £433 £468 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £553 £669
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -17.31% +21.59%
75th Percentile £672 £725 £751
90th Percentile £778 £883 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £577 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -14.59% +8.00% +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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 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 9 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 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
England -26 99 £576 +0.13% 382
London -13 54 £560 +0.67% 232
UK excluding London +6 47 £577 -14.59% 135
Work from Home +42 37 £600 +8.50% 195
North of England +38 16 £577 -17.64% 41
North West +25 13 £577 - 29
Midlands +27 12 £600 +4.35% 20
South East -20 8 £615 -12.14% 40
West Midlands +15 6 £600 +4.35% 11
East Midlands +14 5 £600 -14.29% 9
South West +6 5 £475 -26.92% 14
Scotland +36 3 £375 -61.54% 5
Yorkshire +13 3 - - 10
Northern Ireland - 2 £494 - 5
East of England +1 1 - - 10

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 (4.42%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.54%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.77%) Apache
3 2 (1.77%) 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 (6.19%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (2.65%) Adobe XD
2 3 (2.65%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) 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 (13.27%) Azure
2 11 (9.73%) AWS
3 9 (7.96%) Google Analytics
4 8 (7.08%) SaaS
5 6 (5.31%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (4.42%) GCP
7 4 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.54%) PaaS
7 4 (3.54%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.54%) Slack
8 2 (1.77%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.77%) Canva
8 2 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.77%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.77%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.88%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.88%) Serverless
9 1 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.77%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (1.77%) Firewall
1 2 (1.77%) Intranet
1 2 (1.77%) Network Security
1 2 (1.77%) SNMP
1 2 (1.77%) 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 (2.65%) MongoDB
1 3 (2.65%) Tableau
2 2 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (1.77%) Big Data
2 2 (1.77%) Flink
2 2 (1.77%) MySQL
2 2 (1.77%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (1.77%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.77%) Power BI
2 2 (1.77%) SQLite
3 1 (0.88%) Bigtable
3 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.88%) Looker
3 1 (0.88%) Metadata
3 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.88%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 9 (7.96%) JIRA
2 3 (2.65%) Axure RP
2 3 (2.65%) Balsamiq
3 2 (1.77%) Git
3 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.77%) JUnit
3 2 (1.77%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.88%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.88%) Darcs
4 1 (0.88%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.88%) JMeter
4 1 (0.88%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.88%) Postman
4 1 (0.88%) Travis CI
General
1 46 (40.71%) Social Skills
2 31 (27.43%) Finance
3 24 (21.24%) Marketing
4 14 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.85%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.42%) Retail
7 4 (3.54%) Advertising
7 4 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.65%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.65%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Legal
9 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Automotive
10 1 (0.88%) Banking
10 1 (0.88%) French Language
10 1 (0.88%) German Language
10 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (16.81%) Architect
2 15 (13.27%) Consultant
3 8 (7.08%) Project Manager
4 7 (6.19%) Analyst
4 7 (6.19%) Senior
4 7 (6.19%) Technical Engineer
5 6 (5.31%) Marketing Manager
5 6 (5.31%) Security Architect
6 5 (4.42%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.42%) Communications Manager
6 5 (4.42%) Senior Manager
7 4 (3.54%) Analytics Consultant
7 4 (3.54%) AWS Architect
7 4 (3.54%) Lead
7 4 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.65%) Applications Architect
8 3 (2.65%) AWS Security Architect
8 3 (2.65%) Data Consultant
8 3 (2.65%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 3 (2.65%) UX Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.85%) .NET
2 6 (5.31%) CSS
2 6 (5.31%) HTML
3 4 (3.54%) Kafka
4 3 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.65%) jQuery
4 3 (2.65%) XML
5 2 (1.77%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.77%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (1.77%) Node.js
5 2 (1.77%) React
5 2 (1.77%) RxJava
5 2 (1.77%) Web Services
6 1 (0.88%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.88%) Dagger
6 1 (0.88%) REST
6 1 (0.88%) Retrofit
6 1 (0.88%) Svelte
6 1 (0.88%) Swagger
6 1 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.85%) Social Media
2 9 (7.96%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.54%) Marketing Technology
4 4 (3.54%) Video Editing
5 3 (2.65%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.77%) Virtual Reality
6 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.88%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.88%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.88%) Life Science
7 1 (0.88%) PKI
7 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.77%) Linux
1 2 (1.77%) Windows
2 1 (0.88%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (28.32%) Agile
2 24 (21.24%) Project Management
3 20 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (17.70%) Roadmaps
4 18 (15.93%) Analytics
5 16 (14.16%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (11.50%) CRM
6 13 (11.50%) Data Modelling
7 12 (10.62%) Computer Science
8 11 (9.73%) Mentoring
8 11 (9.73%) Software Engineering
9 10 (8.85%) Logistics
9 10 (8.85%) Matrix Organization
9 10 (8.85%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (7.96%) Change Management
10 9 (7.96%) Data Engineering
10 9 (7.96%) Design Patterns
10 9 (7.96%) Risk Management
10 9 (7.96%) Use Case
11 8 (7.08%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.81%) SQL
2 12 (10.62%) C#
3 8 (7.08%) C++
3 8 (7.08%) JavaScript
3 8 (7.08%) Python
4 7 (6.19%) Java
4 7 (6.19%) PL/SQL
4 7 (6.19%) VB.NET
4 7 (6.19%) VBA
5 2 (1.77%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.88%) C
6 1 (0.88%) Go
6 1 (0.88%) Julia
6 1 (0.88%) PHP
6 1 (0.88%) Ruby
6 1 (0.88%) Rust
6 1 (0.88%) Scala
6 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (19.47%) Degree
2 7 (6.19%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.31%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.42%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.42%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.77%) PhD
6 2 (1.77%) PMP
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) QA
2 5 (4.42%) NIST
3 4 (3.54%) PMO
4 3 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.65%) WCAG
5 2 (1.77%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.88%) COBIT
6 1 (0.88%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.77%) 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 (2.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.77%) Nagios
2 2 (1.77%) 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 (14.16%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.62%) Google
3 8 (7.08%) Databricks
3 8 (7.08%) Salesforce
4 7 (6.19%) Adobe
4 7 (6.19%) Avaloq
5 5 (4.42%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.54%) Cisco
6 4 (3.54%) Oracle
7 3 (2.65%) SAP
7 3 (2.65%) Twitter
7 3 (2.65%) VMware
8 2 (1.77%) AlienVault
8 2 (1.77%) Cadence
8 2 (1.77%) Ensighten
8 2 (1.77%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.77%) Informatica
8 2 (1.77%) Omniture
8 2 (1.77%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.77%) Talend