Critical Thinking Contracts in South Yorkshire

Critical Thinking
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 57 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 7 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.37% 1.21% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £306 £628 -
25th Percentile £338 £636 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £366 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.73% - -
75th Percentile £382 - -
90th Percentile £405 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £366 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -43.73% +13.04% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 482 433 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.51% 87.12% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 234 283
10th Percentile £285 £314 £300
25th Percentile £385 £410 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.31% +10.27%
75th Percentile £563 £580 £675
90th Percentile £638 £621 £743
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 28
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.05 -
25th Percentile £17.33 £12.55 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +43.08% +20.70% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.87 £19.43 -
90th Percentile - £22.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.03 £13.16
% change year-on-year +69.92% -0.99% -29.63%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in South Yorkshire

Critical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in South Yorkshire

Critical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 July 2025. 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
Sheffield +1 7 £366 -43.73% 5
Critical Thinking
Yorkshire

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (42.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) PMO Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Strategy Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modeller
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Mainframe Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (71.43%) Project Delivery
2 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (57.14%) Architecture Roadmap
3 4 (57.14%) Business Case
3 4 (57.14%) Fintech
3 4 (57.14%) Portfolio Management
3 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
3 4 (57.14%) Strategic Planning
3 4 (57.14%) Time Management
3 4 (57.14%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) ITSM
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Project Management
5 1 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JCL
1 1 (14.29%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) SCOM
1 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) IBM