Critical Thinking Contracts in the North West

Critical Thinking
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 145 173
Rank change year-on-year +25 +28 -52
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 17 15 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.62% 0.47% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.52% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 5
10th Percentile £485 £318 £294
25th Percentile £506 £414 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -7.43% +17.85%
75th Percentile £623 £819 £632
90th Percentile £633 £902 £643
England median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.71 -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £24.34 £53.50
% change year-on-year +6.84% -54.51% +16.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Critical Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the North West

Critical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Critical Thinking in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in the North West

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Critical Thinking in the North West

Critical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Manchester +17 10 £525 -27.59% 10
Cheshire +10 7 £618 +45.29% 4
Critical Thinking
England

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (11.76%) Big Data
2 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
2 2 (11.76%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) SAP HANA
3 1 (5.88%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) GoCD
2 1 (5.88%) JUnit
General
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Analyst
1 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) Integration Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) SAP Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Security Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Designer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Principal Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Principal Security Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Designer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Service Designer
3 2 (11.76%) Service Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Android Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Jest
1 2 (11.76%) Node.js
1 2 (11.76%) React
2 1 (5.88%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (5.88%) Dagger
2 1 (5.88%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (5.88%) Retrofit
2 1 (5.88%) RxJava
2 1 (5.88%) Spring
2 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Virtual Team
2 4 (23.53%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Incident Management
2 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (29.41%) Risk Management
3 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Cost Reduction
4 4 (23.53%) Data Security
4 4 (23.53%) Project Management
4 4 (23.53%) Prototyping
5 3 (17.65%) Business Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (17.65%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
5 3 (17.65%) Information Security
5 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
5 3 (17.65%) SDLC
5 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
5 3 (17.65%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) PHP
2 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.88%) Kotlin
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (17.65%) NIST
1 3 (17.65%) PCI DSS
2 2 (11.76%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) SAP
2 2 (11.76%) Databricks
2 2 (11.76%) Teradata