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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 164 222
Rank change year-on-year -1 +58 -64
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 20 38 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.41% 0.70% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.78% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 31 21
10th Percentile £500 £388 £420
25th Percentile £518 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £486 £510
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% -4.71% +10.27%
75th Percentile £626 £563 £600
90th Percentile £650 £800 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £32.00 -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £26.80 £66.00
% change year-on-year -2.97% -59.40% +42.70%

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 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 20 June 2024.

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 20 June 2024. 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
North West +2 15 £549 +12.96% 19
Yorkshire +13 5 £650 +13.04% 13
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 3 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (15.00%) Jupyter
1 3 (15.00%) nginx
2 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) CloudBees
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
2 3 (15.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (15.00%) ClickHouse
1 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (15.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (5.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (10.00%) Jaeger
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) GoCD
3 1 (5.00%) JUnit
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Analyst
1 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Integration Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) SAP Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Designer
3 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Designer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Service Designer
3 2 (10.00%) Service Designer
4 1 (5.00%) Business Integration Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Case Management Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Database Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Principal Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Kafka
2 3 (15.00%) Apache Beam
2 3 (15.00%) Keycloak
2 3 (15.00%) XML
3 2 (10.00%) CSS
3 2 (10.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) Jest
3 2 (10.00%) jQuery
3 2 (10.00%) Node.js
3 2 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (10.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (5.00%) Dagger
4 1 (5.00%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (5.00%) Retrofit
4 1 (5.00%) RxJava
4 1 (5.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Virtual Team
2 4 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.00%) Low-Code
3 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Agile
1 7 (35.00%) DevOps
1 7 (35.00%) Risk Management
2 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (30.00%) Design Patterns
3 5 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 5 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 5 (25.00%) Open Source
3 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (20.00%) Data Security
4 4 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 4 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) Cost Reduction
5 3 (15.00%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Java
2 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) Go
3 3 (15.00%) Groovy
3 3 (15.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) Ruby
3 3 (15.00%) Scala
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) PHP
4 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (10.00%) NIST
1 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (10.00%) WCAG
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (15.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Grafana
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) Kiali
3 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (10.00%) MuleSoft
2 2 (10.00%) Splunk
2 2 (10.00%) Verint
3 1 (5.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) Teradata