Critical Thinking Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Critical Thinking
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Critical Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.34% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £478 £725 £269
% change year-on-year -34.14% +169.52% -6.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 264 135 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 90.72% 93.10% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 104 113
10th Percentile £313 £315 £213
25th Percentile £358 £356 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £417 £468
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% -10.90% +10.12%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £525
90th Percentile £550 £619 £569
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £428 £450
% change year-on-year -1.78% -4.97% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 19
10th Percentile - - £11.15
25th Percentile - £23.10 £14.00
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - -30.86% +91.94%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £17.95
% change year-on-year -20.58% +25.38% +6.63%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Critical Thinking job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Critical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 21 January 2026. 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
Northampton - 1 - - 4
Critical Thinking
East Midlands

Critical Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Visualforce
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (100.00%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce