Critical Thinking Contracts in Glasgow

Critical Thinking
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 77 80
Rank change year-on-year +17 +3 -7
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 19 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.38% 0.57% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 0.62% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £459 £336 £384
25th Percentile £462 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £425 £459
Median % change year-on-year +16.47% -7.36% +23.99%
75th Percentile £711 £438 £478
90th Percentile £711 £468 £481
Scotland median daily rate £495 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.88% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in Glasgow

Critical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in Glasgow

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Critical Thinking in Glasgow

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) Cloud Computing
2 7 (36.84%) Azure
3 6 (31.58%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
General
1 17 (89.47%) Social Skills
2 15 (78.95%) Finance
3 10 (52.63%) Banking
3 10 (52.63%) Investment Banking
4 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 8 (42.11%) JavaScript Engineer
1 8 (42.11%) Python Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Architect
2 6 (31.58%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) JMS
1 1 (5.26%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (73.68%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (42.11%) Management Information System
3 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.26%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (68.42%) Data Security
2 13 (68.42%) Decision-Making
3 11 (57.89%) Artificial Intelligence
3 11 (57.89%) Community of Practice
3 11 (57.89%) Data Science
3 11 (57.89%) Experimental Design
3 11 (57.89%) Machine Learning
3 11 (57.89%) Natural Language Processing
3 11 (57.89%) Risk Management
3 11 (57.89%) Statistical Analysis
4 9 (47.37%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 9 (47.37%) Task Automation
5 6 (31.58%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (31.58%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven
6 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (15.79%) Analytical Thinking
7 3 (15.79%) OO
8 2 (10.53%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Java
1 12 (63.16%) Python
2 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
2 11 (57.89%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) AWS Certification
2 4 (21.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) Sybase