Critical Thinking Contracts in County Antrim

Critical Thinking
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 2.79% 0.75% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 1.01% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £336 - -
25th Percentile £353 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +61.54% - -
75th Percentile £694 £338 -
90th Percentile £705 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £525 £325 -
% change year-on-year +61.54% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 164 99 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 91.62% 74.44% 78.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 54 62
10th Percentile £183 £175 £161
25th Percentile £306 £338 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £519 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +29.69% -10.11%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £511
90th Percentile £625 £675 £649
Northern Ireland median daily rate £425 £550 £413
% change year-on-year -22.73% +33.33% -7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 9
10th Percentile £14.14 £12.25 £13.78
25th Percentile £14.78 £12.44 £13.91
Median hourly rate £23.00 £18.97 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.24% +22.39% +24.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.94 £16.50
90th Percentile £59.80 £31.88 £17.60
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £23.00 £15.63 £15.50
% change year-on-year +47.15% +0.84% +24.00%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in County Antrim

Critical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in County Antrim

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in County Antrim over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Critical Thinking in County Antrim

Critical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

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 County Antrim region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Belfast -5 5 £525 +61.54% 28
Critical Thinking
Northern Ireland

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Front Office
2 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Project Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Internal Audit
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Target Operating Model
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Data Acquisition
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Change
4 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) PMO