Critical Thinking Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Critical Thinking
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Critical Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.41% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
South London median daily rate £475 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 126 101 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 88.73% 92.66% 92.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 75 105
10th Percentile £456 £380 £231
25th Percentile £500 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -5.91%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £634 £629 £668
South London median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £16.64
25th Percentile - - £17.06
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £73.60 £23.50
% change year-on-year -16.82% +213.19% -46.11%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Critical Thinking job vacancy trend in Croydon

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Business Data Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Business Performance Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Migration Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Tableau Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 2 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) PMO
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality