Critical Thinking Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Critical Thinking
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Critical Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 88 96
Rank change year-on-year -21 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 2 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.091% 0.24% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.27% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £505 £336 £296
25th Percentile £508 £364 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £409 £488
Median % change year-on-year +28.97% -16.10% -
75th Percentile £558 £455 £500
90th Percentile £568 £482 -
England median daily rate £490 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -8.41% -0.47% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate £57.75 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -20.23%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,734 1,104 1,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.82% 88.32% 83.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 521 550
10th Percentile £191 £200 £200
25th Percentile £385 £375 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 257 521
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.39 £17.98 £15.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.10 £82.26 £70.00
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Critical Thinking job vacancy trend in the East of England

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Critical Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Critical Thinking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 28 July 2026. 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
Essex -19 1 £505 +58.81%
Norfolk - 1 £550 -
Critical Thinking
England

Critical Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SystmOne
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%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Agriculture
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Health
2 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Product Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Express.js
1 1 (50.00%) FHIR
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
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Information Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Product Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
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%) HL7
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft