Critical Thinking Contracts in Manchester

Critical Thinking
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 110 135
Rank change year-on-year +24 +25 -39
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 10 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.66% 0.42% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.46% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 4
10th Percentile £503 £361 £291
25th Percentile £506 £445 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £425
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +70.59% +25.93%
75th Percentile £561 £902 £566
90th Percentile £568 £902 £616
North West median daily rate £548 £486 £525
% change year-on-year +12.76% -7.43% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.71 -
North West median hourly rate - £20.71 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,316 1,731 2,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.21% 91.68% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 1,270 1,807
10th Percentile £316 £318 £263
25th Percentile £407 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year - +1.73% +9.22%
75th Percentile £594 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 59 51
10th Percentile £12.43 £16.41 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.10 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.72% +140.65% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.27 £24.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £21.56 £35.00 £20.49
% change year-on-year -38.41% +70.82% +10.76%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in Manchester

Critical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in Manchester

Critical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bolton - 1 £525 -
Critical Thinking
North West

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GoCD
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Designer
2 2 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Designer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Service Designer
2 2 (20.00%) Service Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Android Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Data Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) PHP Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Problem Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Jest
1 2 (20.00%) Node.js
1 2 (20.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (10.00%) Dagger
2 1 (10.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (10.00%) Retrofit
2 1 (10.00%) RxJava
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Incident Management
2 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Data Security
3 4 (40.00%) Prototyping
4 3 (30.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) ITIL
5 2 (20.00%) ITSM
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Qualitative Research
5 2 (20.00%) Quantitative Research
5 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Runbook
5 2 (20.00%) Service Design
5 2 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) PHP
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA