Critical Thinking Contracts in Bristol

Critical Thinking
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Critical Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Critical Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 - 78
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 8 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.14% - 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% - 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £538
75th Percentile £588 - £634
90th Percentile - - £696
South West median daily rate £575 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £15.90
South West median hourly rate - - £15.90

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Critical Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 641 825 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.57% 82.67% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 453 650
10th Percentile £235 £260 £313
25th Percentile £363 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £638
90th Percentile £644 £710 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.46% +3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 196 119
10th Percentile £17.35 £43.75 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.87 £53.44 £53.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% +25.73%
75th Percentile £67.13 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £73.38 £79.00 £85.25
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% - +30.00%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in Bristol

Critical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in Bristol

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 7 (87.50%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Adobe Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (87.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Metadata
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
1 8 (100.00%) Marketing
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (87.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Electronics
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Analytics Manager
1 7 (87.50%) Data Analytics Manager
1 7 (87.50%) Data Manager
1 7 (87.50%) Insight Manager
1 7 (87.50%) Strategy Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Analytics
1 7 (87.50%) Business Transformation
1 7 (87.50%) Data Extraction
1 7 (87.50%) Data Visualisation
1 7 (87.50%) Digital Banking
1 7 (87.50%) Digital Strategy
1 7 (87.50%) ETL
1 7 (87.50%) Migration
1 7 (87.50%) Storytelling
1 7 (87.50%) Visualisation
1 7 (87.50%) Web Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
2 1 (12.50%) Data Management
2 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
2 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (12.50%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) R
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Adobe
1 7 (87.50%) Teradata
2 1 (12.50%) SAP