Critical Thinking Contracts in Wiltshire

Critical Thinking
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 73 65
Rank change year-on-year +38 -8 -10
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 22 16 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 4.90% 1.69% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.45% 2.06% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 15 28
10th Percentile £514 £513 £461
25th Percentile £527 £516 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £674 £638 £628
90th Percentile £736 £755 £673
South West median daily rate £569 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +5.81% -2.27% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 778 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 89.98% 82.42% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 569 855
10th Percentile £311 £315 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 14
10th Percentile £18.58 £12.00 £60.45
25th Percentile £18.69 - £62.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £14.54 £68.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.78% -78.66% +15.02%
75th Percentile £39.44 £30.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 £47.75 £85.25
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in Wiltshire

Critical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in Wiltshire

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Critical Thinking in Wiltshire

Critical Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Critical Thinking in Wiltshire.

Hourly rate trend for Critical Thinking in Wiltshire

Critical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Corsham +38 22 £575 +6.98% 3
Critical Thinking
South West

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 16 (72.73%) Confluence
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (18.18%) Skype for Business
4 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (72.73%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) VPN
2 5 (22.73%) DHCP
2 5 (22.73%) DNS
2 5 (22.73%) Skype
3 4 (18.18%) Unified Communications
4 2 (9.09%) iSCSI
4 2 (9.09%) SAN
5 1 (4.55%) BGP
5 1 (4.55%) OSPF
5 1 (4.55%) VLAN
5 1 (4.55%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 16 (72.73%) JIRA
2 5 (22.73%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (95.45%) Social Skills
3 16 (72.73%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Coordinator
2 6 (27.27%) Security Assurance Coordinator
3 2 (9.09%) Test Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Telephony Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) Flash
2 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Clustering
2 7 (31.82%) Data Centre
2 7 (31.82%) PKI
3 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Windows
1 9 (40.91%) Windows Server
2 5 (22.73%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (18.18%) Windows 10
4 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (9.09%) VMS
6 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Agile
2 14 (63.64%) Waterfall
3 13 (59.09%) Service Management
3 13 (59.09%) System Testing
4 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (45.45%) NsoIT
6 9 (40.91%) Computer Science
6 9 (40.91%) Validation
7 8 (36.36%) High Availability
7 8 (36.36%) Power Management
8 6 (27.27%) Incident Management
8 6 (27.27%) Network Virtualisation
9 5 (22.73%) ITIL
10 3 (13.64%) Information Security
10 3 (13.64%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 3 (13.64%) Project Management
10 3 (13.64%) Two-Factor Authentication
11 2 (9.09%) Regression Testing
11 2 (9.09%) Server Management
11 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (95.45%) SC Cleared
1 21 (95.45%) Security Cleared
2 15 (68.18%) Degree
3 12 (54.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 10 (45.45%) DV Cleared
5 9 (40.91%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (40.91%) Master's Degree
6 8 (36.36%) CCNA
7 6 (27.27%) MCSA
7 6 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (22.73%) MCSE
9 3 (13.64%) CCNP
10 2 (9.09%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (9.09%) CISA
10 2 (9.09%) CISSP
11 1 (4.55%) OCA
11 1 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) JSP 440
1 6 (27.27%) RMADS
2 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (36.36%) VMware NSX
3 5 (22.73%) Active Directory
4 3 (13.64%) Hyper-V
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (13.64%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) vCenter Server
2 3 (13.64%) WSUS
3 2 (9.09%) SCOM
4 1 (4.55%) Ansible
4 1 (4.55%) PowerCLI
4 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) Atlassian
2 12 (54.55%) VMware
3 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
4 9 (40.91%) Cisco
5 4 (18.18%) Veeam
6 3 (13.64%) SolarWinds
7 1 (4.55%) Oracle