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 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 284 342 407
Rank change year-on-year +58 +65 -55
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 66 126 223
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.50% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.56% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 93 158
10th Percentile £324 £381 £352
25th Percentile £400 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% -2.80% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £614
90th Percentile £588 £764 £733
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £27.40 £10.23 -
25th Percentile £30.25 £18.09 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.92 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.65% - -
75th Percentile - £32.67 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £21.67 £59.78
% change year-on-year +19.98% -63.75% +39.01%

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 13,243 22,460 40,020
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.02% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,870 29,041
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 519 537
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £13.90
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.40
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

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 11 May 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 4 (6.06%) Confluence
1 4 (6.06%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (10.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.52%) Adobe XD
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.52%) Sketch
4 1 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (3.03%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.52%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.52%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 11 (16.67%) Azure
2 5 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (6.06%) Azure AKS
4 3 (4.55%) Power Automate
4 3 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.55%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (3.03%) OCI
5 2 (3.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (3.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.52%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (1.52%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 1 (1.52%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (1.52%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.52%) Figma
6 1 (1.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (1.52%) BGP
2 1 (1.52%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.52%) DHCP
2 1 (1.52%) DNS
2 1 (1.52%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.52%) LAN
2 1 (1.52%) OSPF
2 1 (1.52%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.52%) Skype
2 1 (1.52%) SSL
2 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.52%) VPN
2 1 (1.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.03%) Power BI
3 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.52%) MS Access
3 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.52%) SQL Navigator
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) JIRA
2 1 (1.52%) Balsamiq
2 1 (1.52%) Toad
General
1 41 (62.12%) Social Skills
2 30 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (28.79%) Finance
4 9 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.09%) Telecoms
6 4 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.55%) French Language
7 3 (4.55%) German Language
8 2 (3.03%) Banking
8 2 (3.03%) Marketing
8 2 (3.03%) Public Speaking
9 1 (1.52%) Arabic Language
9 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.52%) Legal
9 1 (1.52%) Military
9 1 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.52%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 21 (31.82%) Analyst
2 9 (13.64%) Senior
3 8 (12.12%) Developer
3 8 (12.12%) Project Manager
4 6 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 4 (6.06%) .NET Developer
5 4 (6.06%) Full Stack Developer
5 4 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (4.55%) Architect
6 3 (4.55%) Business Requirements Analyst
6 3 (4.55%) Full Stack .NET Developer
6 3 (4.55%) Power Platform Developer
6 3 (4.55%) React Developer
6 3 (4.55%) Requirements Analyst
6 3 (4.55%) Senior Requirements Analyst
6 3 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.03%) Incident Manager
7 2 (3.03%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (3.03%) PMO Planner
7 2 (3.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.06%) .NET
1 4 (6.06%) React
1 4 (6.06%) YAML
2 2 (3.03%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.52%) ADO
3 1 (1.52%) LDAP
3 1 (1.52%) RESTful
3 1 (1.52%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (12.12%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.03%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.03%) Blockchain
3 2 (3.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (3.03%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (3.03%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.03%) PKI
3 2 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.52%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.58%) Windows
2 3 (4.55%) Linux
3 2 (3.03%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.52%) Android
4 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.52%) CentOS
4 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (36.36%) Agile
3 16 (24.24%) Project Management
4 8 (12.12%) Time Management
5 7 (10.61%) Business Analysis
5 7 (10.61%) Decision-Making
5 7 (10.61%) DevOps
5 7 (10.61%) ITIL
5 7 (10.61%) User Experience
6 6 (9.09%) Analytical Thinking
6 6 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (9.09%) Incident Management
6 6 (9.09%) Information Security
6 6 (9.09%) Test Automation
6 6 (9.09%) Use Case
6 6 (9.09%) User Stories
7 5 (7.58%) High Availability
7 5 (7.58%) Portfolio Management
7 5 (7.58%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.12%) SQL
2 6 (9.09%) C#
3 4 (6.06%) Bicep
3 4 (6.06%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.03%) Java
4 2 (3.03%) Python
5 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.52%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (24.24%) Degree
2 8 (12.12%) SC Cleared
2 8 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (4.55%) CIMA
5 2 (3.03%) ACCA
5 2 (3.03%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.03%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.03%) MCSE
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.03%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.52%) CCNP
6 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.52%) CSPO
6 1 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.52%) MBA
6 1 (1.52%) MCSA
6 1 (1.52%) PhD
6 1 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) QA
2 3 (4.55%) SLA
3 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.03%) PMO
4 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (7.58%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.03%) Docker
2 2 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (3.03%) Terraform
2 1 (1.52%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.52%) Nessus
2 1 (1.52%) Nmap
2 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) Oracle
3 3 (4.55%) SAP
3 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.03%) Conga
4 2 (3.03%) DocuSign
4 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.03%) VMware
5 1 (1.52%) Adobe
5 1 (1.52%) Ariba
5 1 (1.52%) Avaya
5 1 (1.52%) CA
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco
5 1 (1.52%) Citrix
5 1 (1.52%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.52%) Ivanti
5 1 (1.52%) OpenText
5 1 (1.52%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.52%) Sun