Critical Thinking Contracts in London

Critical Thinking
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 340 430
Rank change year-on-year +21 +90 -58
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 81 143 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.57% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.63% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 77 100
10th Percentile £172 £363 £356
25th Percentile £374 £425 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +6.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 0
Median hourly rate £22.34 £32.31 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.85% - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £26.80 £66.00
% change year-on-year -2.97% -59.40% +42.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +36 19 £140 -73.33% 11
West London +22 3 £410 - 5
East London -4 2 £850 -5.56% 1
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 11 (13.58%) SharePoint
2 8 (9.88%) SAS
3 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (4.94%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.23%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.46%) Azure
2 7 (8.64%) AWS
2 7 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (7.41%) GCP
3 6 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.17%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.94%) Power Automate
5 4 (4.94%) PowerApps
6 3 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.70%) PaaS
7 2 (2.47%) Azure App Service
7 2 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.47%) Google Docs
7 2 (2.47%) SaaS
7 2 (2.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (2.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (2.47%) Serverless
7 2 (2.47%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.23%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.17%) Intranet
2 3 (3.70%) DNS
2 3 (3.70%) HTTP
2 3 (3.70%) Internet
2 3 (3.70%) SSH
2 3 (3.70%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.70%) VPN
3 1 (1.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.64%) KDB
1 7 (8.64%) Relational Database
2 6 (7.41%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.94%) Power BI
4 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.23%) QlikView
4 1 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Git
2 2 (2.47%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.47%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.47%) Gradle
2 2 (2.47%) IntelliJ
2 2 (2.47%) JIRA
2 2 (2.47%) Selenium
2 2 (2.47%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
General
1 44 (54.32%) Social Skills
2 37 (45.68%) Finance
3 26 (32.10%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.88%) Marketing
5 7 (8.64%) French Language
5 7 (8.64%) Front Office
6 5 (6.17%) Banking
7 4 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.70%) German Language
8 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.70%) Spanish Language
9 2 (2.47%) Arabic Language
9 2 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.47%) Public Speaking
9 2 (2.47%) Retail
9 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.23%) Billing
10 1 (1.23%) Electronics
10 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (20.99%) Developer
2 16 (19.75%) Analyst
3 10 (12.35%) Java Developer
3 10 (12.35%) Senior
4 7 (8.64%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 7 (8.64%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 6 (7.41%) Incident Manager
5 6 (7.41%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.17%) Administrator
6 5 (6.17%) Senior Developer
6 5 (6.17%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.94%) Financial Analyst
8 3 (3.70%) Account Executive
8 3 (3.70%) Applications Project Manager
8 3 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Intranet Administrator
8 3 (3.70%) SharePoint Administrator
8 3 (3.70%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.11%) Spring
2 6 (7.41%) CSS
2 6 (7.41%) HTML
2 6 (7.41%) JSON
3 3 (3.70%) .NET
3 3 (3.70%) Django
3 3 (3.70%) Flask
3 3 (3.70%) Hibernate
3 3 (3.70%) LDAP
4 2 (2.47%) Node.js
4 2 (2.47%) REST
4 2 (2.47%) scikit-learn
4 2 (2.47%) XML
5 1 (1.23%) ADO
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.23%) RESTful
5 1 (1.23%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 7 (8.64%) Data Structures
3 7 (8.64%) Derivative
3 7 (8.64%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (8.64%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.47%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.47%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.47%) FMCG
5 2 (2.47%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.47%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.47%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.23%) IoT
6 1 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.41%) Linux
2 3 (3.70%) Windows
3 2 (2.47%) Android
3 2 (2.47%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (56.79%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (34.57%) Agile
3 18 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 17 (20.99%) Project Management
5 13 (16.05%) Analytical Thinking
6 12 (14.81%) Decision-Making
7 10 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (12.35%) DevOps
7 10 (12.35%) Test Automation
8 9 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 9 (11.11%) Incident Management
8 9 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (9.88%) Analytics
9 8 (9.88%) Continuous Delivery
9 8 (9.88%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (9.88%) Problem Management
9 8 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (9.88%) TDD
10 7 (8.64%) Data Analysis
10 7 (8.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.28%) SQL
2 13 (16.05%) Java
3 8 (9.88%) Python
4 7 (8.64%) C#
5 6 (7.41%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (24.69%) Degree
2 7 (8.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.70%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.47%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.23%) CIMA
5 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.70%) PMO
2 2 (2.47%) SLA
3 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.70%) Hyper-V
1 3 (3.70%) NFS
2 2 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.23%) Ansible
2 1 (1.23%) Nessus
2 1 (1.23%) Nmap
Vendors
1 18 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.64%) ION Trading
3 6 (7.41%) Oracle
4 4 (4.94%) SAP
5 3 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.47%) Adobe
6 2 (2.47%) Avaya
6 2 (2.47%) Cadence
6 2 (2.47%) Citrix
6 2 (2.47%) Conga
6 2 (2.47%) Databricks
6 2 (2.47%) DocuSign
6 2 (2.47%) Google
6 2 (2.47%) Ivanti
6 2 (2.47%) Sun
7 1 (1.23%) Ariba
7 1 (1.23%) CA
7 1 (1.23%) OpenText
7 1 (1.23%) Sitecore