Critical Thinking Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Critical Thinking
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Critical Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.27% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
North East median daily rate £500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 333 201 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 89.52% 90.54% 84.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 107 102
10th Percentile £175 £308 £188
25th Percentile £363 £360 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £520 £605 £586
90th Percentile £576 £650 £709
North East median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 10
10th Percentile £15.06 £13.75 £12.01
25th Percentile £17.88 £14.69 £15.69
Median hourly rate £48.00 £16.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -50.77% +44.44%
75th Percentile £54.06 £17.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £19.75 £68.75
North East median hourly rate £48.00 £18.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +159.46% -10.93% -41.90%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Critical Thinking job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Critical Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £500 - 6
Critical Thinking
North East

Critical Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Miro
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) BPMN
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) Epics
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility