Critical Thinking Contracts in Leeds

Critical Thinking
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.84% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £451 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile £480 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £461 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -21.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 540 604 992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 90.30% 84.24% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 401 686
10th Percentile £301 £350 £355
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £638
90th Percentile £636 £655 £716
West Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 26 13
10th Percentile £25.15 - £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £12.15 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £13.87 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.09% -27.00% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £27.81 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £38.75 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £14.44 £18.00
% change year-on-year +53.38% -19.81% -10.00%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in Leeds

Critical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in Leeds

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (20.00%) MS Visio
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Payments Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Testing Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Impact Assessments
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) BPMN
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (20.00%) SOAR
4 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) GCIH
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (20.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk