Innovative Thinking
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Innovative Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Innovative Thinking over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 462 321
Rank change year-on-year +66 -141 +248
Permanent jobs citing Innovative Thinking 654 623 2,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.64% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.67% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 393 252 284
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,159 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £95,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £102,275 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,084 £47,555 £44,150
% change year-on-year +9.52% +7.71% -11.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Innovative Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Innovative Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Innovative Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Innovative Thinking.

Salary trend for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Innovative Thinking over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Innovative Thinking in the UK

Innovative Thinking
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Innovative Thinking within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +80 621 £55,000 -15.38% 192
UK excluding London +44 470 £52,084 +9.52% 145
Work from Home -41 204 £60,000 -12.82% 94
London +149 173 £70,000 - 57
North of England +59 125 £52,000 -24.36% 43
South West +30 113 £60,000 +6.67% 19
South East -15 100 £40,000 +23.08% 26
Midlands +38 71 £50,000 -37.50% 27
North West +49 67 £52,084 -22.84% 26
West Midlands +46 44 £55,000 -31.25% 16
Yorkshire +37 39 £46,457 -40.06% 10
East of England -36 29 £29,000 -53.60% 17
East Midlands -8 27 £50,000 -41.18% 11
North East +6 19 £46,457 - 9
Scotland -51 19 £32,500 -31.58% 7
Northern Ireland +31 12 £57,276 +27.28% 2
Wales 0 1 £82,500 - 10

Innovative Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.99%) IIS
2 9 (1.38%) Confluence
3 8 (1.22%) Appian
4 7 (1.07%) CMS
5 5 (0.76%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (0.61%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.46%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.46%) SAS
7 3 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.46%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.31%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 51 (7.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 31 (4.74%) Spreadsheet
3 24 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (1.68%) Simulink
5 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.61%) Adobe Captivate
7 3 (0.46%) Adobe After Effects
7 3 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.46%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.46%) Trello
8 2 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.31%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.31%) Sketch
9 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.31%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (0.15%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.15%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 166 (25.38%) Azure
2 165 (25.23%) AWS
3 129 (19.72%) GCP
4 52 (7.95%) Power Platform
5 15 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (1.22%) SaaS
7 7 (1.07%) Figma
8 6 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (0.92%) Serverless
9 5 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (0.76%) Amazon S3
9 5 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (0.76%) GitHub
9 5 (0.76%) Route 53
9 5 (0.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (0.76%) WhatsApp
10 4 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.75%) WAN
2 11 (1.68%) 5G
2 11 (1.68%) Firewall
2 11 (1.68%) SD-WAN
2 11 (1.68%) Wireless
3 9 (1.38%) Network Security
4 7 (1.07%) LAN
5 5 (0.76%) SAN
6 4 (0.61%) DNS
6 4 (0.61%) OSPF
6 4 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.46%) Internet
7 3 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.46%) VLAN
8 2 (0.31%) Broadband
8 2 (0.31%) MQTT
8 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.15%) MPLS
9 1 (0.15%) SDH
9 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (17.13%) Data Warehouse
2 111 (16.97%) BigQuery
2 111 (16.97%) Looker
3 47 (7.19%) Power BI
4 26 (3.98%) Tableau
5 17 (2.60%) Data Lake
6 16 (2.45%) Metadata
7 9 (1.38%) BusinessObjects
8 7 (1.07%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.31%) GIS
11 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.15%) Big Data
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.15%) Power Query
12 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.15%) SAP Data Services
12 1 (0.15%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 18 (2.75%) JIRA
2 12 (1.83%) Visual Studio
3 6 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.76%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.76%) Postman
4 5 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (0.76%) Subversion
5 4 (0.61%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.46%) Appium
6 3 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.46%) JMeter
6 3 (0.46%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.46%) Selenium
6 3 (0.46%) Serenity BDD
6 3 (0.46%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.31%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.31%) Git
8 1 (0.15%) JUnit
8 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 236 (36.09%) Analytical Skills
2 218 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 85 (13.00%) Retail
4 81 (12.39%) Finance
5 68 (10.40%) Marketing
6 49 (7.49%) Organisational Skills
7 44 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 36 (5.50%) Banking
9 25 (3.82%) Financial Institution
10 21 (3.21%) Games
10 21 (3.21%) Law
10 21 (3.21%) Military
11 20 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (2.75%) Public Sector
13 17 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (2.45%) Retail Banking
14 16 (2.45%) Telecoms
15 15 (2.29%) Legal
16 14 (2.14%) Electronics
17 11 (1.68%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 162 (24.77%) Senior
2 157 (24.01%) Architect
3 127 (19.42%) Data Architect
4 62 (9.48%) Lead
5 56 (8.56%) Developer
6 45 (6.88%) Software Engineer
7 43 (6.57%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 43 (6.57%) Delivery Manager
8 31 (4.74%) Senior Architect
9 27 (4.13%) Consultant
9 27 (4.13%) Field Engineer
9 27 (4.13%) Field Service Engineer
9 27 (4.13%) Lead Developer
10 25 (3.82%) Analyst
10 25 (3.82%) Senior Field Engineer
10 25 (3.82%) Senior Field Service Engineer
10 25 (3.82%) Team Leader
11 22 (3.36%) Project Manager
12 21 (3.21%) Security Consultant
12 21 (3.21%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.91%) .NET
1 19 (2.91%) React
2 8 (1.22%) AngularJS
3 7 (1.07%) HTML
4 6 (0.92%) Node.js
4 6 (0.92%) Spring Boot
4 6 (0.92%) Vue
5 5 (0.76%) ASP.NET
5 5 (0.76%) CSS
5 5 (0.76%) Spring
6 4 (0.61%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (0.61%) Kafka
7 3 (0.46%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.46%) Playwright
8 2 (0.31%) D3.js
8 2 (0.31%) DOM
8 2 (0.31%) Express.js
8 2 (0.31%) JSON
8 2 (0.31%) SAP TM
8 2 (0.31%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 205 (31.35%) Self-Motivation
2 44 (6.73%) Driving Licence
3 27 (4.13%) EPoS
4 25 (3.82%) Management Information System
5 17 (2.60%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.29%) CESG
6 15 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (1.83%) Data Centre
7 12 (1.83%) GNSS
8 10 (1.53%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.38%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.38%) Video\Live Streaming
9 9 (1.38%) Virtual Reality
10 8 (1.22%) CCTV
10 8 (1.22%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.22%) Robotics
11 7 (1.07%) Operational Technology
12 6 (0.92%) Life Science
12 6 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.76%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 46 (7.03%) Windows
2 22 (3.36%) Linux
3 12 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
3 12 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
4 8 (1.22%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.76%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.15%) AIX
8 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (34.40%) Problem-Solving
2 188 (28.75%) Mentoring
3 155 (23.70%) Agile
4 132 (20.18%) Data Architecture
5 128 (19.57%) Data Modelling
6 123 (18.81%) Platform Engineering
7 122 (18.65%) Data Security
8 119 (18.20%) Data Integration
9 118 (18.04%) ETL
10 112 (17.13%) Data Engineering
10 112 (17.13%) Data Governance
11 111 (16.97%) ERD
12 100 (15.29%) Project Management
13 66 (10.09%) Creative Thinking
14 64 (9.79%) Scrum
15 60 (9.17%) Customer Service
16 57 (8.72%) Coaching
17 55 (8.41%) Software Engineering
18 52 (7.95%) Business Intelligence
19 51 (7.80%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 44 (6.73%) Python
2 38 (5.81%) SQL
3 35 (5.35%) Java
4 23 (3.52%) C++
5 18 (2.75%) Perl
6 14 (2.14%) MATLAB
7 13 (1.99%) C#
8 12 (1.83%) Bash
9 10 (1.53%) JavaScript
10 8 (1.22%) Scala
11 7 (1.07%) C
11 7 (1.07%) R
12 5 (0.76%) Delphi
13 4 (0.61%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.15%) Ladder Logic
14 1 (0.15%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.15%) Rust
14 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 139 (21.25%) Degree
2 56 (8.56%) Security Cleared
3 39 (5.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (3.67%) HND
5 21 (3.21%) HNC
6 20 (3.06%) DBS Check
7 19 (2.91%) CISMP
8 18 (2.75%) DV Cleared
9 16 (2.45%) AWS Certification
9 16 (2.45%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (1.83%) IISP
11 12 (1.83%) SC Cleared
12 10 (1.53%) CCNP
12 10 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (1.38%) CISM
13 9 (1.38%) CISSP
14 8 (1.22%) A+ Certification
14 8 (1.22%) Network+ Certification
15 7 (1.07%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (17.13%) Data Quality
1 112 (17.13%) GDPR
2 33 (5.05%) SLA
3 25 (3.82%) NIST
4 23 (3.52%) PMO
5 15 (2.29%) JSP 440
6 13 (1.99%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 12 (1.83%) NIST 800
7 12 (1.83%) RMADS
8 10 (1.53%) QA
9 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.76%) NCSC
11 4 (0.61%) GRC
12 3 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.46%) JTAG
13 2 (0.31%) GLP
14 1 (0.15%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 31 (4.74%) Firmware
2 15 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.99%) Docker
4 7 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (2.60%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.99%) Terraform
3 6 (0.92%) Ansible
3 6 (0.92%) Progress Chef
3 6 (0.92%) Puppet
3 6 (0.92%) Salt
4 5 (0.76%) Packer
Vendors
1 114 (17.43%) Google
2 65 (9.94%) Microsoft
3 36 (5.50%) Dell
4 27 (4.13%) HP
4 27 (4.13%) IBM
5 23 (3.52%) NetApp
6 21 (3.21%) VMware
7 17 (2.60%) Cisco
8 6 (0.92%) Adobe
9 5 (0.76%) Atlassian
9 5 (0.76%) Facebook
9 5 (0.76%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.61%) Progress
10 4 (0.61%) SAP
11 3 (0.46%) Mercator
11 3 (0.46%) Optimizely
11 3 (0.46%) Oracle
11 3 (0.46%) Sitecore
12 2 (0.31%) Databricks
12 2 (0.31%) HubSpot