Critical Thinking Contracts in the West Midlands

Critical Thinking
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 131 149
Rank change year-on-year +30 +18 -28
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 10 14 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 0.58% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.65% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 23
10th Percentile £420 £247 £398
25th Percentile £463 £350 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £395 £490
Median % change year-on-year +53.67% -19.39% +66.10%
75th Percentile £611 £458 £513
90th Percentile - £470 £538
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.71 -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £24.34 £52.00
% change year-on-year +6.84% -53.20% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,610 2,139 3,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.85% 87.99% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,471 2,430
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +6.72% +16.42%
75th Percentile £612 £600 £575
90th Percentile £728 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £532
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.38% +9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 45 71
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.64
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +7.39% -8.33%
75th Percentile £40.81 £23.22 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.50 £47.00 £24.25
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £23.96
% change year-on-year -6.17% +55.71% -0.19%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in the West Midlands

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Critical Thinking in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Critical Thinking in the West Midlands

Critical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
Warwickshire +5 5 £607 +37.95% 1
Birmingham +10 3 £475 +35.71% 4
Staffordshire +6 1 £375 -16.67% 2
Critical Thinking
England

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure App Service
2 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Angular Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Deployment Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Deployment Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Desktop Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
1 5 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 5 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (50.00%) Microservices
3 5 (50.00%) User Experience
3 5 (50.00%) UX Design
4 3 (30.00%) PRINCE2
4 3 (30.00%) Project Management
4 3 (30.00%) Time Management
5 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Quantitative Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (10.00%) Server Management
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Bicep
1 5 (50.00%) C#
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
1 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) VMware