Critical Thinking Contracts in Cheshire

Critical Thinking
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 48 55
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 0
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 2 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.44% 1.41% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 1.69% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £394 £505 £426
25th Percentile £447 £569 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £618 £480
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +28.65% -24.05%
75th Percentile £648 £632 -
90th Percentile £706 £635 -
North West median daily rate £544 £548 £486
% change year-on-year -0.73% +12.76% -7.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 444 414 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 96.94% 83.47% 91.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 274 328
10th Percentile £316 £300 £288
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £489 £482
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% +1.37% +4.86%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £640 £638 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 30 25
10th Percentile £17.20 £13.70 £19.29
25th Percentile £25.15 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £47.50 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +78.17% -12.70% +35.73%
75th Percentile £86.00 £42.31 £35.03
90th Percentile - £44.13 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £23.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year +35.66% -34.72% +52.90%

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 15 May 2025.

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 15 May 2025. 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
Knutsford -12 1 £358 -42.95%
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 1 (50.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Hudson
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Billing
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) JAX-WS
1 1 (50.00%) JMS
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) JSP
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Servlets
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Struts
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Network Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Backlog
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) R
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow