Critical Thinking Contracts in England

Critical Thinking
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Critical Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Critical Thinking 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 354 379 450
Rank change year-on-year +25 +71 -38
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 189 274 371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.57% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.64% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 183 240
10th Percentile £254 £363 £350
25th Percentile £363 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £616 £620 £626
90th Percentile £750 £800 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £510
% change year-on-year +1.20% +1.72% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 20 0
10th Percentile £23.60 £15.54 -
25th Percentile £25.50 £20.22 -
Median hourly rate £26.00 £21.67 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.98% - -
75th Percentile £35.00 £43.73 -
90th Percentile - £50.42 -
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £21.67 -
% change year-on-year +19.98% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Critical 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,636 42,957 64,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.67% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,638 30,177 45,793
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,325 1,518 1,713
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Critical Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in England

Critical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in England

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Critical Thinking in England

Critical Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Critical Thinking in England

Critical Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Critical Thinking in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Critical Thinking in England

Critical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Critical Thinking within the England region 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
London +39 82 £563 -2.17% 127
Midlands +34 30 £275 -30.38% 35
South East -1 21 £538 +26.47% 43
East Midlands +25 19 £269 -10.71% 22
North of England +12 19 £549 +12.96% 30
South West -6 18 £538 -2.27% 27
North West +4 16 £548 +12.76% 15
West Midlands +11 11 £607 +53.67% 13
East of England - 8 £600 - 12
Yorkshire +18 3 £650 +13.04% 10
Critical Thinking
UK

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 23 (12.17%) Confluence
2 22 (11.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (7.94%) SharePoint
4 8 (4.23%) SAS
5 3 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.59%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.59%) nginx
Applications
1 20 (10.58%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.12%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (1.59%) SAP SD
2 2 (1.06%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.53%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.53%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.53%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.53%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.53%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 29 (15.34%) Azure
2 13 (6.88%) AWS
3 12 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (4.76%) GCP
5 8 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.23%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.70%) Azure App Service
7 6 (3.17%) Azure AKS
8 5 (2.65%) PaaS
9 4 (2.12%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.12%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.59%) CloudBees
10 3 (1.59%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (1.59%) SaaS
11 2 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.06%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (1.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (12.17%) DNS
2 19 (10.05%) DHCP
3 6 (3.17%) VSAN
4 5 (2.65%) Intranet
5 3 (1.59%) Firewall
5 3 (1.59%) HTTP
5 3 (1.59%) Internet
5 3 (1.59%) SSH
5 3 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.59%) VPN
6 2 (1.06%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.06%) Skype
7 1 (0.53%) SAN
7 1 (0.53%) WAN
7 1 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 8 (4.23%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.70%) KDB
3 7 (3.70%) Power BI
4 4 (2.12%) SAP HANA
5 3 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.59%) ClickHouse
5 3 (1.59%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.06%) Big Data
6 2 (1.06%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.53%) MS Access
7 1 (0.53%) MySQL
7 1 (0.53%) QlikView
7 1 (0.53%) SQL Navigator
7 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.53%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 27 (14.29%) JIRA
2 7 (3.70%) Git
3 4 (2.12%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.06%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.06%) Gradle
5 2 (1.06%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.06%) Selenium
5 2 (1.06%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.53%) GoCD
6 1 (0.53%) JUnit
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.53%) Toad
General
1 130 (68.78%) Social Skills
2 74 (39.15%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (24.34%) Finance
4 19 (10.05%) Military
5 18 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 15 (7.94%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (6.35%) French Language
8 11 (5.82%) Telecoms
9 10 (5.29%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (4.23%) Marketing
11 7 (3.70%) Banking
11 7 (3.70%) Front Office
11 7 (3.70%) German Language
12 6 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.59%) Spanish Language
14 2 (1.06%) Arabic Language
14 2 (1.06%) Dutch Language
14 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
14 2 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (19.05%) Analyst
2 24 (12.70%) Senior
3 23 (12.17%) Developer
4 18 (9.52%) Test Engineer
5 16 (8.47%) Integration Engineer
5 16 (8.47%) Test and Integration Engineer
6 14 (7.41%) Project Manager
7 10 (5.29%) Java Developer
8 9 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (4.23%) Incident Manager
9 8 (4.23%) Software Engineer
10 7 (3.70%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.70%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 7 (3.70%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
11 6 (3.17%) Integration Analyst
11 6 (3.17%) SAP Analyst
11 6 (3.17%) Test Manager
11 6 (3.17%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 5 (2.65%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.29%) Spring
2 9 (4.76%) .NET
3 8 (4.23%) HTML
4 7 (3.70%) CSS
5 6 (3.17%) JSON
5 6 (3.17%) Node.js
5 6 (3.17%) RESTful
6 5 (2.65%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.65%) Flash
6 5 (2.65%) LDAP
7 4 (2.12%) React
7 4 (2.12%) XML
8 3 (1.59%) Apache Beam
8 3 (1.59%) Django
8 3 (1.59%) Flask
8 3 (1.59%) Hibernate
8 3 (1.59%) Kafka
8 3 (1.59%) Keycloak
8 3 (1.59%) scikit-learn
9 2 (1.06%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.11%) PKI
2 17 (8.99%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (5.82%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.29%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.29%) Virtual Team
6 9 (4.76%) Algorithms
7 7 (3.70%) Data Structures
7 7 (3.70%) Derivative
7 7 (3.70%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.65%) Clustering
9 3 (1.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.59%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.06%) Blockchain
10 2 (1.06%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (1.06%) FMCG
10 2 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.23%) Windows
2 21 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 20 (10.58%) Windows Server 2012
4 12 (6.35%) Linux
5 4 (2.12%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.59%) Android
7 2 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.06%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (53.44%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (36.51%) Agile
3 35 (18.52%) Decision-Making
3 35 (18.52%) Project Management
4 28 (14.81%) Computer Science
5 27 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (12.17%) Time Management
7 22 (11.64%) Analytical Thinking
7 22 (11.64%) DevOps
8 19 (10.05%) Test Scripting
9 18 (9.52%) Incident Management
9 18 (9.52%) Regression Testing
10 17 (8.99%) People Management
11 16 (8.47%) Business Analysis
11 16 (8.47%) Collaborative Working
11 16 (8.47%) Conflict Management
11 16 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (7.41%) Asset Management
12 14 (7.41%) CI/CD
13 13 (6.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (23.28%) SQL
2 22 (11.64%) Java
3 15 (7.94%) Python
4 13 (6.88%) C#
4 13 (6.88%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.23%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.17%) Bicep
8 3 (1.59%) Go
8 3 (1.59%) Groovy
8 3 (1.59%) Ruby
8 3 (1.59%) Scala
9 2 (1.06%) Perl
9 2 (1.06%) PHP
9 2 (1.06%) R
10 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 44 (23.28%) Degree
2 32 (16.93%) Security Cleared
3 31 (16.40%) SC Cleared
4 24 (12.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 20 (10.58%) MCSE
5 20 (10.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (9.52%) MCSA
7 15 (7.94%) HNC
7 15 (7.94%) HND
8 11 (5.82%) Master's Degree
9 8 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.65%) CCNA
10 5 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (2.12%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (2.12%) PMI Certification
11 4 (2.12%) PMP
12 3 (1.59%) CIMA
12 3 (1.59%) Postgraduate
12 3 (1.59%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.35%) QA
2 5 (2.65%) SLA
3 4 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.59%) PMO
5 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.06%) HAZOP
5 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.06%) NIST
5 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (13.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (13.23%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (3.17%) VMware NSX
4 5 (2.65%) Docker
5 4 (2.12%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (1.59%) NFS
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (3.17%) vCenter Server
2 4 (2.12%) Ansible
2 4 (2.12%) Terraform
3 3 (1.59%) Grafana
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.06%) PingFederate
4 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.06%) WSUS
5 1 (0.53%) Nessus
5 1 (0.53%) Nmap
5 1 (0.53%) SCOM
Vendors
1 48 (25.40%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.76%) VMware
3 17 (8.99%) SAP
4 7 (3.70%) ION Trading
5 6 (3.17%) Oracle
6 5 (2.65%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.65%) Cisco
6 5 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.12%) Databricks
8 3 (1.59%) Citrix
8 3 (1.59%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.06%) Avaya
9 2 (1.06%) Cadence
9 2 (1.06%) Conga
9 2 (1.06%) DocuSign
9 2 (1.06%) Google
9 2 (1.06%) Ivanti
9 2 (1.06%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.06%) Sun
9 2 (1.06%) Teradata