Critical Thinking Contracts in the South West

Critical Thinking
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Critical Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Critical Thinking over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 145 145
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 -25
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 17 29 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.53% 0.79% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.88% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 19
10th Percentile £513 £460 £413
25th Percentile £517 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £669 £606 £600
90th Percentile £775 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £510
% change year-on-year - +2.94% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £50.15
25th Percentile - - £51.50
Median hourly rate - - £61.28
75th Percentile - - £69.05
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £24.34 £53.50
% change year-on-year +6.84% -54.51% +16.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Critical Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,642 3,282 3,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.87% 89.53% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,701 2,410 2,334
10th Percentile £220 £311 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 344 193
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.92 £61.50 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -22.09% +26.86% +7.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.37 £69.97
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Critical Thinking in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Critical Thinking in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Wiltshire -7 16 £538 -2.27% 4
Bristol +17 1 £900 - 4
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England

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 15 (88.24%) Confluence
2 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
3 2 (11.76%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) DNS
2 9 (52.94%) VSAN
3 8 (47.06%) DHCP
4 2 (11.76%) Skype
4 2 (11.76%) Unified Communications
5 1 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 15 (88.24%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 16 (94.12%) Analytical Skills
1 16 (94.12%) Social Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
3 6 (35.29%) Military
4 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Advertising
5 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.88%) Finance
5 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 6 (35.29%) Integration Engineer
3 6 (35.29%) Test and Integration Engineer
3 6 (35.29%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Marketing Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Planning Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Flash
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) PKI
2 6 (35.29%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 8 (47.06%) Windows Server
2 8 (47.06%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
3 2 (11.76%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (47.06%) NsoIT
2 8 (47.06%) Service Management
2 8 (47.06%) System Testing
2 8 (47.06%) Waterfall
3 7 (41.18%) Validation
4 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
4 6 (35.29%) High Availability
4 6 (35.29%) Network Virtualisation
4 6 (35.29%) Power Management
4 6 (35.29%) Regression Testing
4 6 (35.29%) Test Scripting
5 3 (17.65%) ITIL
6 1 (5.88%) Information Security
6 1 (5.88%) Programme Management
6 1 (5.88%) Risk Management
6 1 (5.88%) Scrum
6 1 (5.88%) Security Management
6 1 (5.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (94.12%) SC Cleared
1 16 (94.12%) Security Cleared
2 13 (76.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 10 (58.82%) Degree
4 7 (41.18%) CCNA
4 7 (41.18%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (41.18%) Master's Degree
4 7 (41.18%) MCSE
4 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (35.29%) MCSA
6 4 (23.53%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
8 1 (5.88%) CCNP
8 1 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 15 (88.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 9 (52.94%) VMware NSX
3 8 (47.06%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (11.76%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) vCenter Server
2 2 (11.76%) WSUS
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.88%) Puppet
3 1 (5.88%) SCCM
3 1 (5.88%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) VMware
2 9 (52.94%) Atlassian
2 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
3 7 (41.18%) Cisco
4 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds
4 2 (11.76%) Veeam
5 1 (5.88%) Splunk