Critical Thinking Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Critical Thinking
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Critical Thinking skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 65 69
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +27
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.26% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £503 - £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £288
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +73.91% +19.17%
75th Percentile £508 - £294
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -8.30%

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 666 645 752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.49% 82.38% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 400 545
10th Percentile £221 £267 £213
25th Percentile £340 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £628 £625 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 34 48
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Critical Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Critical Thinking

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 16 September 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
Leicestershire - 1 - - 3
Lincolnshire - 1 £505 - 2
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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (50.00%) Agriculture
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Express.js
1 1 (50.00%) MERN Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft