Critical Thinking Contract Job Trends in Central London

Critical Thinking
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Critical Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 124 118
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 +61
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 11 7 23
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.54% 0.31% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.33% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 8
10th Percentile £338 - -
25th Percentile £409 £515 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £530 £312
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +69.87% -48.00%
75th Percentile £500 £691 £625
90th Percentile £575 £779 £764
London median daily rate £520 £526 £500
% change year-on-year -1.19% +5.25% -13.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,822 2,112 2,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.24% 92.35% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,266 1,316 1,696
10th Percentile £350 £363 £357
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 17
10th Percentile £20.18 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.70 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £41.75 £43.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £68.50
London median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.69% -13.33%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Critical Thinking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Critical Thinking job vacancy trend in Central London

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Critical Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in Central London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Critical Thinking in Central London

Critical Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Critical Thinking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
City of London 0 9 £443 -16.51% 23
Critical Thinking
London

Critical Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Akamai
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Cloudflare
2 1 (9.09%) Figma
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) ATM
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) HTTPS
1 1 (9.09%) Internet
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
1 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Law
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Spanish Language
4 1 (9.09%) Back Office
4 1 (9.09%) Front Office
4 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Change Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Designer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) PHP Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Process Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Ajax
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) DOM
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) HTML5
1 1 (9.09%) LAMP
1 1 (9.09%) Laravel
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) Symfony
1 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (9.09%) e-Learning
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) Workshop Facilitation
3 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) ERP
3 3 (27.27%) Project Management
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (27.27%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Change Management
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 2 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Resource Management
4 2 (18.18%) Service Design
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
5 1 (9.09%) Customer Experience
5 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
5 1 (9.09%) Empathy Maps
5 1 (9.09%) Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) Korn
2 1 (9.09%) PHP
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CTC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CFA
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO 8583
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
1 1 (9.09%) F5
1 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
1 1 (9.09%) Infoblox
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto