Critical Thinking Contracts in Yorkshire

Critical Thinking
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 85 96 121
Rank change year-on-year +11 +25 +10
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 7 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.69% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.27% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £427 - £435
25th Percentile £457 - £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £519 - £750
90th Percentile £525 - £800
England median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +2.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in Yorkshire

Critical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in Yorkshire

Critical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
South Yorkshire +11 6 £507 -22.00%
West Yorkshire +15 1 - - 8
Critical Thinking
England

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
1 5 (71.43%) Presentation Skills
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe Tester
2 1 (14.29%) PMO Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) PMI
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (71.43%) Fintech
2 5 (71.43%) Portfolio Management
2 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (71.43%) Time Management
3 4 (57.14%) Change Management
3 4 (57.14%) PRINCE2
3 4 (57.14%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Business Case
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JCL
1 1 (14.29%) REXX
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) PMO