Critical Thinking Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Critical Thinking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 243 280 361
Rank change year-on-year +37 +81 +54
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 61 65 117
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.62% 0.42% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.48% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 38 82
10th Percentile £402 £284 £399
25th Percentile £500 £378 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £433 £504
Median % change year-on-year +25.72% -14.14% +0.75%
75th Percentile £589 £538 £600
90th Percentile £646 £589 £834
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £27.40 £10.23
25th Percentile £34.13 £30.25 £18.09
Median hourly rate £35.25 £35.00 £31.92
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +9.65% -40.34%
75th Percentile £36.38 - £32.67
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £26.00 £21.67
% change year-on-year +65.38% +19.98% -59.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Critical Thinking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Critical Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Critical Thinking trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Critical Thinking.

Critical Thinking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Critical Thinking over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Critical Thinking daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Critical Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Critical Thinking.

Critical Thinking hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 12 (19.67%) Confluence
2 7 (11.48%) SAS
3 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.64%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (24.59%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (6.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 2 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.64%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.75%) Cloud Computing
2 7 (11.48%) Adobe Analytics
3 5 (8.20%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.56%) Azure
5 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.28%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.28%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.64%) AWS
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) Skype
2 2 (3.28%) BGP
2 2 (3.28%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (3.28%) Firewall
3 1 (1.64%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (1.64%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.64%) DNS
3 1 (1.64%) FTP
3 1 (1.64%) HTTP
3 1 (1.64%) OSPF
3 1 (1.64%) SMTP
3 1 (1.64%) SSL
3 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.64%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.64%) VPN
3 1 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) Relational Database
2 7 (11.48%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (8.20%) Power BI
4 1 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.64%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.64%) Tableau
4 1 (1.64%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 12 (19.67%) JIRA
2 6 (9.84%) Git
3 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.64%) webpack
General
1 47 (77.05%) Social Skills
2 33 (54.10%) Finance
3 28 (45.90%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (31.15%) Banking
5 11 (18.03%) Public Sector
6 9 (14.75%) Investment Banking
7 8 (13.11%) Marketing
8 4 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (3.28%) Financial Institution
9 2 (3.28%) Front Office
9 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
9 2 (3.28%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.64%) Advertising
10 1 (1.64%) French Language
10 1 (1.64%) German Language
Job Titles
1 10 (16.39%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 8 (13.11%) Analyst
2 8 (13.11%) Analytics Manager
2 8 (13.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 8 (13.11%) JavaScript Engineer
2 8 (13.11%) Python Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) Data Analytics Manager
3 7 (11.48%) Data Manager
3 7 (11.48%) Insight Manager
3 7 (11.48%) Strategy Manager
4 6 (9.84%) Business Analyst
5 4 (6.56%) Algorithm Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) C++ Software Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Lead
5 4 (6.56%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.56%) Senior
5 4 (6.56%) Senior Wintel Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Software Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Software Engineer - Algorithmic Trading
5 4 (6.56%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.39%) Flash
2 1 (1.64%) .NET
2 1 (1.64%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.64%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.64%) CSS
2 1 (1.64%) EDI
2 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.64%) HTML
2 1 (1.64%) JMS
2 1 (1.64%) JSON
2 1 (1.64%) Node.js
2 1 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.64%) React
2 1 (1.64%) REST
2 1 (1.64%) Sass
2 1 (1.64%) Spring
2 1 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.95%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (16.39%) Clustering
2 10 (16.39%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.20%) Algorithms
3 5 (8.20%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.56%) Hedge funds
4 4 (6.56%) PKI
4 4 (6.56%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.28%) e-Learning
5 2 (3.28%) Equities
5 2 (3.28%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.28%) Learning Management System
5 2 (3.28%) Life Science
5 2 (3.28%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.84%) Linux
2 5 (8.20%) Windows
2 5 (8.20%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.56%) Windows 10
3 4 (6.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.82%) Agile
2 29 (47.54%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (29.51%) Computer Science
4 15 (24.59%) Analytics
4 15 (24.59%) NsoIT
4 15 (24.59%) Service Management
5 14 (22.95%) System Testing
5 14 (22.95%) Waterfall
6 13 (21.31%) Decision-Making
6 13 (21.31%) Project Management
7 12 (19.67%) Migration
8 10 (16.39%) High Availability
8 10 (16.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (16.39%) Machine Learning
8 10 (16.39%) Network Virtualisation
8 10 (16.39%) Power Management
8 10 (16.39%) Validation
8 10 (16.39%) Visualisation
9 9 (14.75%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 9 (14.75%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (24.59%) Python
2 14 (22.95%) SQL
3 13 (21.31%) Java
4 9 (14.75%) JavaScript
4 9 (14.75%) TypeScript
5 8 (13.11%) R
6 7 (11.48%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.56%) C++
8 1 (1.64%) Bicep
8 1 (1.64%) C#
8 1 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 27 (44.26%) Degree
2 17 (27.87%) Master's Degree
2 17 (27.87%) Security Cleared
3 16 (26.23%) SC Cleared
4 12 (19.67%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (18.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (16.39%) CCNA
7 7 (11.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (8.20%) MCSE
9 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
9 2 (3.28%) CCIE
9 2 (3.28%) CFA
9 2 (3.28%) MBA
10 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.64%) CCNP
10 1 (1.64%) MCSA
10 1 (1.64%) OCA
10 1 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (1.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.92%) PMO
2 1 (1.64%) GDPR
2 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 11 (18.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (16.39%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (16.39%) VMware NSX
3 5 (8.20%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.64%) Docker
4 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (18.03%) vCenter Server
2 4 (6.56%) WSUS
3 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.28%) Terraform
4 1 (1.64%) Ansible
4 1 (1.64%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.64%) Grafana
4 1 (1.64%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 12 (19.67%) Cisco
2 11 (18.03%) Atlassian
2 11 (18.03%) VMware
3 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
4 7 (11.48%) Adobe
4 7 (11.48%) Teradata
5 3 (4.92%) SAP
6 2 (3.28%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.64%) Google
7 1 (1.64%) Oracle
7 1 (1.64%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.64%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.64%) Sybase
7 1 (1.64%) Veeam