Critical Thinking Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Critical Thinking
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Critical Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 58 75
Rank change year-on-year -5 +17 +12
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 10 23 5
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.37% 2.84% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 3.07% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 5
10th Percentile £423 £458 £418
25th Percentile £425 £460 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +16.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £671 £488
90th Percentile £625 £711 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £495 £450
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +12.50%

All Process & 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 616 748 836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.38% 92.23% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 460 540
10th Percentile £306 £313 £341
25th Percentile £389 £365 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +4.38%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £600
90th Percentile £639 £625 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 34
10th Percentile £14.17 £16.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.17 £15.48
Median hourly rate £23.75 £24.15 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +34.17% +69.33%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.13 £40.94
90th Percentile £61.35 £65.00 £69.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.14% +19.46% +10.05%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Critical Thinking job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in Glasgow over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Critical Thinking in Glasgow

Critical Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (30.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (30.00%) Banking
4 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (30.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Data Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Modeller
2 2 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Integration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Teradata Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (10.00%) Flask
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (10.00%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) AI
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) Data Design
3 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (30.00%) Data Lineage
3 3 (30.00%) Data Mapping
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Data Transformation
3 3 (30.00%) Metadata Management
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) Data Security
4 2 (20.00%) Investment Management
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Observability
4 2 (20.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) PromQL
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (10.00%) CISSP
1 1 (10.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Grafana
2 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
1 3 (30.00%) Teradata
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) PagerDuty
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk