Critical Thinking Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Critical Thinking
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Critical Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - 73
Rank change year-on-year - - -12
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.51% - 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% - 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £570
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.22%
75th Percentile £488 - £580
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £185 £346 £425
% change year-on-year -46.45% -18.71% +3.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 361 398 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 92.09% 87.47% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 279 506
10th Percentile £204 £203 £195
25th Percentile £237 £265 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £438 £519
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -15.66% -1.19%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £600
90th Percentile £677 £600 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 15 36
10th Percentile £23.45 £16.07 £19.87
25th Percentile £26.91 £24.18 £44.07
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -51.32% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.45 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £21.25 £58.05 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.39% +10.56% +18.00%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Critical Thinking job vacancy trend in Surrey

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Critical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 20 November 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
Staines - 1 - - 1
Weybridge - 1 £475 -
Critical Thinking
South East

Critical Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Qualitative Research
2 1 (50.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ACCA
1 1 (50.00%) CIMA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Sage
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce