Critical Thinking Contracts in the South West

Critical Thinking
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 26 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 131 146
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 -25
Contract jobs citing Critical Thinking 17 28 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.52% 0.83% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.93% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 19
10th Percentile £496 £508 £423
25th Percentile £513 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £556 £638 £619
90th Percentile £596 £703 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.90 -
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
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,709 3,015 3,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.12% 88.99% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,689 2,175 2,323
10th Percentile £250 £313 £300
25th Percentile £403 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 312 206
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.00 £15.78 £23.81
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.95% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £68.73
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 the South West

Job postings citing Critical Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Critical Thinking in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Critical Thinking in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in the South West over the 6 months to 26 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Critical Thinking in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Critical Thinking in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Critical Thinking in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 26 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
Wiltshire -12 17 £538 -2.27%
Critical Thinking
England

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 13 (76.47%) Confluence
2 11 (64.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (58.82%) DNS
2 9 (52.94%) DHCP
3 5 (29.41%) VSAN
4 2 (11.76%) Skype
Development Applications
1 13 (76.47%) JIRA
General
1 16 (94.12%) Analytical Skills
1 16 (94.12%) Social Skills
2 9 (52.94%) Military
3 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Advertising
4 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Test Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Integration Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Test and Integration Engineer
3 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (29.41%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Wintel Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Digital Marketing Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Marketing Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Planning Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 12 (70.59%) PKI
2 4 (23.53%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Windows
1 11 (64.71%) Windows Server
1 11 (64.71%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (11.76%) CentOS
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Agile
2 9 (52.94%) Regression Testing
2 9 (52.94%) Test Scripting
3 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (35.29%) Service Management
4 6 (35.29%) System Testing
5 5 (29.41%) NsoIT
5 5 (29.41%) Validation
6 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
6 4 (23.53%) High Availability
6 4 (23.53%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (23.53%) Power Management
6 4 (23.53%) Waterfall
7 2 (11.76%) Change Management
7 2 (11.76%) Defect Management
7 2 (11.76%) ITIL
7 2 (11.76%) Problem Management
8 1 (5.88%) Digital Marketing
8 1 (5.88%) Display Advertising
8 1 (5.88%) Pay per click
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (94.12%) SC Cleared
1 16 (94.12%) Security Cleared
2 14 (82.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 11 (64.71%) MCSE
3 11 (64.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (52.94%) MCSA
5 7 (41.18%) Degree
6 4 (23.53%) CCNA
6 4 (23.53%) Chartered Engineer
6 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (23.53%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 14 (82.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (70.59%) Active Directory
3 5 (29.41%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (29.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) vCenter Server
2 2 (11.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) VMware
2 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
3 4 (23.53%) Atlassian
3 4 (23.53%) Cisco
4 2 (11.76%) Red Hat