Critical Thinking Contracts in Cheshire

Critical Thinking
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 57 56
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 -20
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 7 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.41% 0.75% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 0.82% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £505 £419 -
25th Percentile £569 £429 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £453 £632
Median % change year-on-year +36.46% -28.40% +40.44%
75th Percentile £632 £469 -
90th Percentile £635 £476 -
North West median daily rate £548 £486 £525
% change year-on-year +12.76% -7.43% +19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 419 485 458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.14% 91.34% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 328 260
10th Percentile £275 £275 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +5.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £538
90th Percentile £638 £660 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 23 28
10th Percentile £13.70 £19.06 £10.43
25th Percentile £16.61 £23.15 £16.02
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +28.59% -21.96%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.00 £33.05
90th Percentile £44.13 £39.20 £60.03
North West median hourly rate £21.56 £35.50 £20.75
% change year-on-year -39.28% +71.13% +12.14%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in Cheshire

Critical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in Cheshire

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Critical Thinking in Cheshire

Critical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Macclesfield -14 3 £475 +4.97% 2
Knutsford - 2 £628 -
Warrington - 1 - - 1
Critical Thinking
North West

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (28.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
1 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
1 2 (28.57%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (14.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Legal
5 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Consultant
2 3 (42.86%) Integration Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) SAP Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Security Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Principal Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Principal Security Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Business Integration Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Virtual Team
2 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (71.43%) Risk Management
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) Business Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) Cost Reduction
4 3 (42.86%) Creative Thinking
4 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
4 3 (42.86%) Information Security
4 3 (42.86%) Project Management
4 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 3 (42.86%) Virtual Team Management
5 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Programme Management
6 1 (14.29%) IT Strategy
6 1 (14.29%) Scrum
6 1 (14.29%) Use Case
6 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
1 3 (42.86%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) Teradata