Critical Thinking Contracts in the East Midlands

Critical Thinking
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 73 89
Rank change year-on-year +22 +16 -11
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 19 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.19% 0.40% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 0.46% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 2 1
10th Percentile £254 £284 -
25th Percentile £258 £288 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £269 £301 £195
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +54.49% -35.00%
75th Percentile £280 £315 £198
90th Percentile £450 £320 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £21.19 -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £26.80 £66.00
% change year-on-year -2.97% -59.40% +42.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 678 868 1,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.02% 87.50% 82.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 676 856
10th Percentile £200 £213 £200
25th Percentile £304 £345 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +15.38%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £525
90th Percentile £623 £700 £608
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 50 72
10th Percentile £11.67 £13.11 £9.75
25th Percentile £12.75 £17.82 £14.61
Median hourly rate £17.00 £26.07 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.79% +30.35% +53.85%
75th Percentile £26.15 £51.50 £32.06
90th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Critical Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the East Midlands

Critical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Critical Thinking in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in the East Midlands

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Critical Thinking in the East Midlands

Critical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 June 2024. 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
Derbyshire - 10 £268 - 5
Leicestershire - 7 £269 - 4
Northamptonshire - 2 £455 - 5
Critical Thinking
England

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) AWS
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
1 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DHCP
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) SAN
1 1 (5.26%) WAN
General
1 17 (89.47%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Test Manager
2 5 (26.32%) Production Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Quality Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Site Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.26%) IT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
1 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (89.47%) Time Management
3 15 (78.95%) Conflict Management
3 15 (78.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (78.95%) Decision-Making
3 15 (78.95%) People Management
4 13 (68.42%) Asset Management
5 5 (26.32%) Project Management
6 2 (10.53%) Agile
6 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
6 2 (10.53%) PRINCE2
6 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
7 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis
7 1 (5.26%) Data Collection
7 1 (5.26%) Data Encryption
7 1 (5.26%) Data Science
7 1 (5.26%) Data Validation
7 1 (5.26%) Incident Response
7 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Python
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (78.95%) HNC
1 15 (78.95%) HND
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Citrix
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.26%) SAP
1 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds
1 1 (5.26%) VMware