Critical Thinking Contracts in the North of England

Critical Thinking
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 155 164 198
Rank change year-on-year +9 +34 +4
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 11 21 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.44% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.51% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 17
10th Percentile £383 £489 £368
25th Percentile £430 £509 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £579 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +5.27% +7.84%
75th Percentile £524 £632 £800
90th Percentile £638 £641 £901
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +2.94%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £69.00 £26.00 £24.34
% change year-on-year +165.38% +6.84% -54.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Critical Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the North of England

Critical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Critical Thinking in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in the North of England

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Critical Thinking in the North of England

Critical Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Critical Thinking in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Critical Thinking in the North of England

Critical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Yorkshire +11 7 £507 -22.00% 20
North West +4 4 £500 -8.76% 71
Critical Thinking
England

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (9.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
1 1 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) JBoss
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) dbt
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Big Data
1 1 (9.09%) Data Mining
1 1 (9.09%) Data Vault
1 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
1 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Hudson
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Applications Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
2 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Mainframe Tester
2 1 (9.09%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Security Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Ajax
1 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) CSS3
1 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
1 1 (9.09%) HTML5
1 1 (9.09%) JAX-WS
1 1 (9.09%) JMS
1 1 (9.09%) jQuery
1 1 (9.09%) JSP
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
1 1 (9.09%) Servlets
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
1 1 (9.09%) Spring
1 1 (9.09%) Spring MVC
1 1 (9.09%) Struts
1 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) PMI
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (54.55%) Time Management
3 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (45.45%) Fintech
3 5 (45.45%) Portfolio Management
3 5 (45.45%) Project Management
3 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (36.36%) Change Management
4 4 (36.36%) PRINCE2
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Analytical Thinking
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Coaching
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) JCL
2 1 (9.09%) R
2 1 (9.09%) REXX
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) PMI Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) PMO
2 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
3 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Adobe
1 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
1 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
1 1 (9.09%) IBM
1 1 (9.09%) Infoblox
1 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
1 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow