Critical Thinking Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Critical Thinking
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Critical Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 33 -
Rank change year-on-year -49 - -
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 4 12 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.57% 3.36% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 3.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 0
10th Percentile £293 £528 -
25th Percentile £306 £534 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £569 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.31% - -
75th Percentile £361 £622 -
90th Percentile £366 £661 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £340 £569 -
% change year-on-year -40.31% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 671 329 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.99% 92.16% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 182 213
10th Percentile £316 £230 £378
25th Percentile £401 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £597 £650
90th Percentile £623 £664 £724
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -6.80% -6.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile £14.31 £13.14 £19.10
25th Percentile - £15.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -11.11% +36.36%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.50 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £13.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.11% -40.00% +60.71%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Critical Thinking job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Critical Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) PMO Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Strategy Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Author
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Author
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Writer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Author
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Business Case
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Fintech
2 2 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Time Management
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infographics
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk