Critical Thinking Contracts in Manchester

Critical Thinking
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 78 86 110
Rank change year-on-year +8 +24 +25
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 1 10 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.11% 0.66% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.76% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - £503 £361
25th Percentile - £506 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 £725
Median % change year-on-year - -27.59% +70.59%
75th Percentile - £561 £902
90th Percentile - £568 £902
North West median daily rate £500 £548 £486
% change year-on-year -8.76% +12.76% -7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.22
Median hourly rate - - £20.71
75th Percentile - - £21.19
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £20.71

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in Manchester

Critical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in Manchester

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (100.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Active Listening
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality