Critical Thinking Contracts in the South East

Critical Thinking
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 184 214
Rank change year-on-year +9 +30 -5
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 25 31 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.55% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.61% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 36
10th Percentile £241 £284 £250
25th Percentile £514 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £419
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% +1.49% +11.67%
75th Percentile £566 £522 £563
90th Percentile £628 £696 £656
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £5.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -92.42% -
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
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Critical Thinking in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in the South East over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Critical Thinking in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Critical Thinking in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Critical Thinking in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Hampshire +3 12 £538 +2.38% 5
Thames Valley -1 11 £170 -57.50% 17
Berkshire -13 10 - - 9
Surrey +11 2 £563 +32.35% 1
Buckinghamshire +20 1 £170 -49.63% 5
Critical Thinking
England

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (36.00%) Confluence
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.00%) Azure
1 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (36.00%) DHCP
1 9 (36.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) JIRA
General
1 20 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 9 (36.00%) Military
4 6 (24.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (8.00%) Finance
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Analyst
2 11 (44.00%) Senior
3 10 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
4 9 (36.00%) Test Engineer
5 8 (32.00%) Integration Engineer
5 8 (32.00%) Test and Integration Engineer
6 5 (20.00%) Business Requirements Analyst
6 5 (20.00%) Requirements Analyst
6 5 (20.00%) Senior Requirements Analyst
7 4 (16.00%) Business Analyst
7 4 (16.00%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
8 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
9 1 (4.00%) Business Transformation Analyst
9 1 (4.00%) Business Transformation Business Analyst
9 1 (4.00%) Consultant
9 1 (4.00%) IT Engineer
9 1 (4.00%) Senior Transformation Analyst
9 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
9 1 (4.00%) Transformation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) PKI
2 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Windows
1 9 (36.00%) Windows Server
1 9 (36.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (48.00%) Project Management
3 10 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 10 (40.00%) Agile
3 10 (40.00%) Business Analysis
3 10 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
3 10 (40.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 10 (40.00%) Portfolio Management
3 10 (40.00%) User Stories
4 9 (36.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 9 (36.00%) Regression Testing
4 9 (36.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (8.00%) ERP
5 2 (8.00%) PRINCE2
5 2 (8.00%) Project Delivery
6 1 (4.00%) Clean Code
6 1 (4.00%) Customer Service
6 1 (4.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (36.00%) MCSA
2 9 (36.00%) MCSE
2 9 (36.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (36.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (36.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (8.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (8.00%) PMP
3 2 (8.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (4.00%) Degree
4 1 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.00%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (36.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (36.00%) VMware
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow