Critical Thinking Contracts with Work from Home Options

Critical Thinking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 355 409
Rank change year-on-year +73 +54 -49
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 64 117 223
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.45% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.50% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 82 157
10th Percentile £275 £399 £350
25th Percentile £370 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +0.75% +3.09%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £613
90th Percentile £590 £834 £710
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £27.40 £10.23 -
25th Percentile £30.25 £18.09 £52.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.92 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.65% -40.34% +47.59%
75th Percentile - £32.67 £54.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £21.67 £53.50
% change year-on-year +19.98% -59.50% +24.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,424 23,231 40,628
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.86% 89.84% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,419 29,475
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £715
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 532 547
10th Percentile £15.12 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.89
Median hourly rate £40.28 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.76% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Critical Thinking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Critical Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Critical Thinking trend for jobs with a WFH option

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Critical Thinking over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 3 (4.69%) Confluence
1 3 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.56%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.56%) Sketch
3 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (3.13%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.56%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.56%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.94%) Azure
2 4 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.13%) OCI
3 2 (3.13%) Power Automate
3 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
3 2 (3.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 2 (3.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.56%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (1.56%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 1 (1.56%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (1.56%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (1.56%) AWS KMS
4 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.56%) Figma
4 1 (1.56%) Serverless
4 1 (1.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) Firewall
2 1 (1.56%) BGP
2 1 (1.56%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.56%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.56%) LAN
2 1 (1.56%) OSPF
2 1 (1.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.56%) SSL
2 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.56%) VPN
2 1 (1.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (3.13%) Power BI
1 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.56%) MS Access
2 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.56%) SQL Navigator
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) JIRA
2 1 (1.56%) Balsamiq
2 1 (1.56%) Toad
General
1 37 (57.81%) Social Skills
2 29 (45.31%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (31.25%) Finance
4 10 (15.63%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.38%) Telecoms
6 4 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.69%) French Language
7 3 (4.69%) German Language
8 2 (3.13%) Banking
8 2 (3.13%) Legal
8 2 (3.13%) Marketing
8 2 (3.13%) Public Speaking
9 1 (1.56%) Arabic Language
9 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 23 (35.94%) Analyst
2 9 (14.06%) Project Manager
2 9 (14.06%) Senior
3 7 (10.94%) Business Analyst
4 4 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (4.69%) Architect
5 3 (4.69%) Business Requirements Analyst
5 3 (4.69%) Data Analyst
5 3 (4.69%) Developer
5 3 (4.69%) Requirements Analyst
5 3 (4.69%) Senior Requirements Analyst
5 3 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.13%) Data Scientist
6 2 (3.13%) Information Officer
6 2 (3.13%) Java Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) PMO Planner
6 2 (3.13%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (3.13%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (3.13%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 2 (3.13%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.56%) ADO
2 1 (1.56%) LDAP
2 1 (1.56%) RESTful
2 1 (1.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.13%) Blockchain
4 2 (3.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (3.13%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Windows
2 2 (3.13%) Linux
3 1 (1.56%) Android
3 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.56%) Unix
3 1 (1.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (53.13%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (31.25%) Agile
3 19 (29.69%) Project Management
4 9 (14.06%) Time Management
5 8 (12.50%) Business Analysis
6 6 (9.38%) Analytical Thinking
6 6 (9.38%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (9.38%) Decision-Making
6 6 (9.38%) Incident Management
6 6 (9.38%) ITIL
6 6 (9.38%) PRINCE2
6 6 (9.38%) Project Delivery
6 6 (9.38%) Use Case
6 6 (9.38%) User Stories
7 5 (7.81%) Information Security
7 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (7.81%) Portfolio Management
7 5 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (6.25%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.38%) SQL
2 2 (3.13%) C#
2 2 (3.13%) Java
2 2 (3.13%) Python
3 1 (1.56%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (26.56%) Degree
2 6 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (4.69%) CIMA
5 3 (4.69%) Postgraduate
6 2 (3.13%) ACCA
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.56%) CCNP
7 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.56%) CSPO
7 1 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.56%) MBA
7 1 (1.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) SLA
2 3 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.13%) PMO
4 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.56%) FedRAMP
4 1 (1.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.13%) Docker
3 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) FortiGate
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.56%) Nessus
1 1 (1.56%) Nmap
1 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle
3 3 (4.69%) SAP
3 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.13%) Conga
4 2 (3.13%) DocuSign
4 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.56%) Adobe
5 1 (1.56%) Ariba
5 1 (1.56%) Avaya
5 1 (1.56%) CA
5 1 (1.56%) Cisco
5 1 (1.56%) Citrix
5 1 (1.56%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.56%) Ivanti
5 1 (1.56%) OpenText
5 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.56%) Sun
5 1 (1.56%) VMware