Critical Thinking Jobs in England

Critical Thinking
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Critical Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Critical Thinking over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 397 463
Rank change year-on-year -81 +66 +127
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 398 751 989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.81% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.84% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 273 393 432
10th Percentile £24,400 £35,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,290 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Critical 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,814 89,178 125,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.85% 95.66% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 53,731 52,642 73,765
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,327
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in England

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Critical Thinking in England

Critical Thinking
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Critical Thinking in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Critical Thinking in England

Critical Thinking
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Critical Thinking within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +16 168 £75,000 +25.00% 101
North of England -20 61 £52,500 +16.67% 36
South East -33 56 £57,500 +11.98% 37
South West -13 47 £50,000 -40.30% 18
Midlands -44 42 £42,200 -19.62% 17
North West -10 35 £40,000 -11.11% 19
West Midlands -12 29 £24,000 -56.36% 10
Yorkshire +64 25 £52,500 -4.34% 14
East of England +11 20 £43,500 -47.27% 14
East Midlands -34 9 £46,000 -8.00% 7
North East -26 1 £67,500 +68.75% 3
Critical Thinking
UK

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 15 (3.77%) Confluence
3 7 (1.76%) CMS
3 7 (1.76%) SAS
4 4 (1.01%) WordPress
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.25%) Drupal
6 1 (0.25%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 37 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.26%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.75%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.75%) Sketch
5 2 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.50%) InDesign
5 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.25%) 1Password
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.25%) InVision
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.26%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.26%) Odoo
2 5 (1.26%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (1.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.75%) Shopify
4 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.25%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.25%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.25%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.25%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.25%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.25%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 67 (16.83%) Azure
2 53 (13.32%) AWS
3 36 (9.05%) Power Platform
4 29 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (4.52%) SaaS
6 11 (2.76%) Serverless
7 10 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (2.51%) GCP
8 9 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.26%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.26%) OCI
10 5 (1.26%) PaaS
11 4 (1.01%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 4 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.01%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.01%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.29%) Wi-Fi
2 29 (7.29%) Network Security
3 27 (6.78%) Wireless
4 24 (6.03%) 5G
5 22 (5.53%) Bluetooth
5 22 (5.53%) GSM
5 22 (5.53%) ISDN
5 22 (5.53%) LTE
5 22 (5.53%) PSTN
5 22 (5.53%) UMTS
6 16 (4.02%) WAN
7 14 (3.52%) LAN
8 12 (3.02%) Firewall
9 10 (2.51%) Internet
10 5 (1.26%) BGP
10 5 (1.26%) DNS
10 5 (1.26%) OSPF
10 5 (1.26%) SNMP
10 5 (1.26%) VLAN
10 5 (1.26%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.05%) Power BI
2 29 (7.29%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (3.52%) Tableau
5 12 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.26%) GIS
7 6 (1.51%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.51%) MySQL
7 6 (1.51%) SAP HANA
8 5 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.26%) CockroachDB
8 5 (1.26%) Data Mining
8 5 (1.26%) SAP BW
8 5 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.01%) Big Data
9 4 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.01%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.01%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.01%) Spatial Data
9 4 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (10.05%) JIRA
2 30 (7.54%) Burp Suite
2 30 (7.54%) Metasploit
3 22 (5.53%) LabVIEW
4 20 (5.03%) Git
5 10 (2.51%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.76%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.51%) Selenium
8 5 (1.26%) Jaeger
8 5 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.01%) Appium
9 4 (1.01%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.75%) GitLab
11 2 (0.50%) Axure RP
11 2 (0.50%) git-flow
11 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.50%) WiX
12 1 (0.25%) Moq
12 1 (0.25%) NUnit
12 1 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
General
1 231 (58.04%) Social Skills
2 142 (35.68%) Analytical Skills
3 110 (27.64%) Finance
4 49 (12.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 46 (11.56%) Marketing
6 32 (8.04%) Presentation Skills
7 30 (7.54%) Organisational Skills
7 30 (7.54%) Telecoms
8 29 (7.29%) Retail
9 21 (5.28%) Banking
9 21 (5.28%) Legal
10 19 (4.77%) Law
11 15 (3.77%) Publishing
12 14 (3.52%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (3.52%) Public Sector
13 11 (2.76%) Tech for Good
14 8 (2.01%) French Language
15 7 (1.76%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.76%) Health Technology
16 6 (1.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 49 (12.31%) Analyst
2 46 (11.56%) Senior
3 40 (10.05%) Developer
4 36 (9.05%) Tester
5 30 (7.54%) Penetration Tester
6 24 (6.03%) Architect
6 24 (6.03%) Project Manager
7 21 (5.28%) Lead
8 16 (4.02%) Consultant
9 15 (3.77%) Hardware Engineer
10 13 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (3.27%) Product Manager
11 12 (3.02%) Designer
11 12 (3.02%) IT Manager
11 12 (3.02%) Senior Manager
12 10 (2.51%) Help Desk Analyst
12 10 (2.51%) Technical Architect
12 10 (2.51%) Test Engineer
13 9 (2.26%) Business Analyst
14 8 (2.01%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.78%) CSS
2 19 (4.77%) Node.js
2 19 (4.77%) React
3 16 (4.02%) HTML
4 14 (3.52%) .NET
5 13 (3.27%) Web Services
6 10 (2.51%) Vue
7 8 (2.01%) .NET Framework
7 8 (2.01%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.01%) Django
8 6 (1.51%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.26%) Kafka
9 5 (1.26%) Middleware
9 5 (1.26%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (1.26%) RESTful
9 5 (1.26%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.01%) Entity Framework
10 4 (1.01%) LDAP
10 4 (1.01%) SOAP
10 4 (1.01%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.04%) Self-Motivation
2 30 (7.54%) Management Information System
3 24 (6.03%) Algorithms
3 24 (6.03%) Product Ownership
4 22 (5.53%) Acoustics
4 22 (5.53%) Satnav
5 18 (4.52%) Data Structures
6 13 (3.27%) Client/Server
6 13 (3.27%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.76%) Social Media
8 9 (2.26%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.26%) Virtual Team
9 8 (2.01%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.51%) Credit Risk
10 6 (1.51%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.51%) Market Risk
11 5 (1.26%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.26%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.26%) Robotics
11 5 (1.26%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 47 (11.81%) Linux
2 30 (7.54%) Kali Linux
3 12 (3.02%) Windows
4 8 (2.01%) Android
5 7 (1.76%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.50%) Unix
6 2 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (61.56%) Problem-Solving
2 135 (33.92%) Agile
3 104 (26.13%) Computer Science
4 91 (22.86%) Project Management
5 70 (17.59%) Cybersecurity
6 62 (15.58%) Mentoring
7 55 (13.82%) Coaching
8 54 (13.57%) Information Security
9 49 (12.31%) Customer Service
10 48 (12.06%) Data Management
11 47 (11.81%) Test Automation
12 46 (11.56%) Analytical Thinking
13 43 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (10.80%) Roadmaps
14 42 (10.55%) Software Engineering
15 41 (10.30%) DevOps
16 40 (10.05%) Analytics
17 39 (9.80%) User Experience
18 38 (9.55%) Business Intelligence
18 38 (9.55%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 82 (20.60%) Python
2 59 (14.82%) SQL
3 39 (9.80%) JavaScript
4 36 (9.05%) C#
5 18 (4.52%) TypeScript
6 14 (3.52%) Java
7 13 (3.27%) PHP
8 10 (2.51%) R
9 8 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.26%) Bash
10 5 (1.26%) Ruby
11 4 (1.01%) Scala
12 2 (0.50%) C
12 2 (0.50%) C++
12 2 (0.50%) Go
12 2 (0.50%) VB
13 1 (0.25%) Bicep
13 1 (0.25%) SOQL
13 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 183 (45.98%) Degree
2 57 (14.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.77%) Master's Degree
4 12 (3.02%) Security Cleared
5 11 (2.76%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.01%) CISM
7 7 (1.76%) CISSP
8 5 (1.26%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.01%) OSCP
9 4 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.75%) ISEB
10 3 (0.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 3 (0.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 3 (0.75%) MCT
10 3 (0.75%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.75%) PMP
10 3 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.05%) QA
2 16 (4.02%) GDPR
3 15 (3.77%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (1.26%) GAAP
5 5 (1.26%) IFRS
5 5 (1.26%) NIST
5 5 (1.26%) SLA
6 4 (1.01%) PMO
7 3 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.25%) COBIT
8 1 (0.25%) COSHH
8 1 (0.25%) COSO
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.25%) SEPA
8 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (4.02%) Docker
2 15 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.01%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.50%) NFS
6 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (3.02%) Kubernetes
1 12 (3.02%) Terraform
2 6 (1.51%) Ansible
3 5 (1.26%) Kiali
4 3 (0.75%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.50%) Nmap
5 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.50%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.25%) Grafana
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 88 (22.11%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.03%) SAP
3 14 (3.52%) Google
4 13 (3.27%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.76%) Alteryx
6 9 (2.26%) Oracle
7 7 (1.76%) Splunk
8 6 (1.51%) Dell
8 6 (1.51%) Pega
8 6 (1.51%) Progress
8 6 (1.51%) UiPath
9 5 (1.26%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.26%) Databricks
9 5 (1.26%) Intel
9 5 (1.26%) PeopleSoft
10 4 (1.01%) Adobe
10 4 (1.01%) Mapbox
11 3 (0.75%) Cisco
11 3 (0.75%) Mercator
11 3 (0.75%) Micro Focus