Critical Thinking Contracts in London

Critical Thinking
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 352 424
Rank change year-on-year +37 +72 -77
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 79 141 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.45% 0.54% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.59% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 75 101
10th Percentile £155 £363 £360
25th Percentile £364 £441 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £563 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +6.13% -1.53%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £663
90th Percentile £825 £838 £775
England median daily rate £525 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +8.02% -2.80% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 1
10th Percentile - £20.22 -
25th Percentile - £21.31 £45.50
Median hourly rate £22.34 £32.31 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.85% -31.27% -2.18%
75th Percentile - £50.42 £48.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £21.67 £59.78
% change year-on-year +19.98% -63.75% +29.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,657 23,832 35,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 90.97% 92.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,214 17,166 25,985
10th Percentile £341 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 270 416
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.45 £17.40
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.25 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.80% +4.08% +13.08%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.40 £80.23 £69.06
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in London

Critical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in London

Critical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Critical Thinking in London

Critical Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Critical Thinking in London

Critical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Central London +42 18 £140 -73.33% 12
West London +22 3 £410 - 2
East London - 2 £850 - 4
Critical Thinking
England

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 10 (12.66%) SharePoint
2 8 (10.13%) SAS
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.06%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.27%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (1.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.32%) Azure
2 8 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (8.86%) AWS
4 6 (7.59%) GCP
4 6 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.06%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (5.06%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (5.06%) PaaS
5 4 (5.06%) Power Automate
5 4 (5.06%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.06%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.53%) Azure App Service
6 2 (2.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (2.53%) Google Docs
6 2 (2.53%) SaaS
6 2 (2.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (2.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (2.53%) Serverless
6 2 (2.53%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) Intranet
2 4 (5.06%) DNS
2 4 (5.06%) HTTP
2 4 (5.06%) Internet
2 4 (5.06%) SSH
2 4 (5.06%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.06%) VPN
3 1 (1.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.86%) KDB
1 7 (8.86%) Relational Database
2 6 (7.59%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.80%) Power BI
4 2 (2.53%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.27%) QlikView
5 1 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Git
2 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.53%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.53%) Gradle
2 2 (2.53%) IntelliJ
2 2 (2.53%) JIRA
2 2 (2.53%) Selenium
2 2 (2.53%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
General
1 47 (59.49%) Social Skills
2 36 (45.57%) Finance
3 26 (32.91%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.13%) Marketing
5 7 (8.86%) Front Office
6 5 (6.33%) Banking
7 4 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.80%) French Language
8 3 (3.80%) German Language
8 3 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.80%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.53%) Arabic Language
9 2 (2.53%) Electronics
9 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.53%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.53%) Public Speaking
9 2 (2.53%) Retail
9 2 (2.53%) Spanish Language
10 1 (1.27%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 17 (21.52%) Developer
2 14 (17.72%) Analyst
3 10 (12.66%) Java Developer
3 10 (12.66%) Senior
4 7 (8.86%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 7 (8.86%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 6 (7.59%) Incident Manager
5 6 (7.59%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.33%) Administrator
6 5 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Senior Developer
6 5 (6.33%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (5.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Financial Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) Applications Project Manager
8 3 (3.80%) Intranet Administrator
8 3 (3.80%) Power Platform Developer
8 3 (3.80%) SharePoint Administrator
8 3 (3.80%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.39%) Spring
2 8 (10.13%) HTML
3 7 (8.86%) JSON
4 6 (7.59%) CSS
5 4 (5.06%) .NET
5 4 (5.06%) LDAP
5 4 (5.06%) scikit-learn
6 3 (3.80%) Django
6 3 (3.80%) Flask
6 3 (3.80%) Hibernate
7 2 (2.53%) GeoPandas
7 2 (2.53%) Matplotlib
7 2 (2.53%) Node.js
7 2 (2.53%) NumPy
7 2 (2.53%) PyTorch
7 2 (2.53%) React
7 2 (2.53%) REST
7 2 (2.53%) TensorFlow
7 2 (2.53%) XML
8 1 (1.27%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.92%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (11.39%) Algorithms
3 7 (8.86%) Data Structures
3 7 (8.86%) Derivative
3 7 (8.86%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (8.86%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.80%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.53%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.53%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.53%) FMCG
5 2 (2.53%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.53%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.53%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.27%) IoT
6 1 (1.27%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.59%) Linux
2 3 (3.80%) Windows
3 2 (2.53%) Android
3 2 (2.53%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (58.23%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (35.44%) Agile
3 20 (25.32%) Computer Science
4 12 (15.19%) Analytical Thinking
5 11 (13.92%) Decision-Making
5 11 (13.92%) DevOps
5 11 (13.92%) Project Management
6 10 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (12.66%) Incident Management
6 10 (12.66%) Test Automation
7 9 (11.39%) CI/CD
7 9 (11.39%) OO
7 9 (11.39%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (10.13%) Analytics
8 8 (10.13%) Continuous Delivery
8 8 (10.13%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (10.13%) Problem Management
8 8 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (10.13%) TDD
9 7 (8.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.46%) Java
2 12 (15.19%) SQL
3 10 (12.66%) Python
4 8 (10.13%) C#
4 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.06%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.53%) R
7 1 (1.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (25.32%) Degree
2 7 (8.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.06%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.53%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.53%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.27%) CIMA
5 1 (1.27%) MBA
5 1 (1.27%) PhD
5 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) SLA
2 2 (2.53%) PMO
3 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (5.06%) Hyper-V
1 4 (5.06%) NFS
2 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.27%) Ansible
2 1 (1.27%) Nessus
2 1 (1.27%) Nmap
Vendors
1 18 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.86%) ION Trading
3 5 (6.33%) Oracle
4 4 (5.06%) SAP
5 3 (3.80%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.80%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.53%) Avaya
6 2 (2.53%) Cadence
6 2 (2.53%) Citrix
6 2 (2.53%) Conga
6 2 (2.53%) Databricks
6 2 (2.53%) DocuSign
6 2 (2.53%) ESRI
6 2 (2.53%) Google
6 2 (2.53%) Ivanti
6 2 (2.53%) Sun
7 1 (1.27%) Adobe
7 1 (1.27%) Ariba
7 1 (1.27%) CA
7 1 (1.27%) Sitecore