Critical Thinking Jobs in the North West

Critical Thinking
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 255 245 302
Rank change year-on-year -10 +57 -81
Permanent jobs citing Critical Thinking 35 57 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.72% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.75% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 25 36 23
10th Percentile £27,750 £24,125 £34,000
25th Percentile £34,500 £29,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £49,500 £69,063 £71,250
90th Percentile £70,500 £97,290 £85,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,062 7,624 8,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.15% 95.74% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6,132 3,949 5,362
10th Percentile £27,775 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,050 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Critical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Critical Thinking in the North West

Critical Thinking
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Critical Thinking in the North West.

Salary trend for Critical Thinking in the North West

Critical Thinking
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Critical Thinking in the North West

Critical Thinking
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Critical Thinking within the North West 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
Manchester +14 14 £37,500 -25.00% 10
Cheshire -11 12 £40,000 +37.93% 4
Merseyside -1 4 £49,000 +15.29% 4
Lancashire -11 4 £37,120 - 2
Cumbria -13 1 £45,000 - 1
Critical Thinking
England

Critical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 2 (5.71%) CMS
1 2 (5.71%) WordPress
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (5.71%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (5.71%) InDesign
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.71%) Photoshop
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Shopify
2 1 (2.86%) Aareon QL
2 1 (2.86%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (2.86%) NEC Housing
2 1 (2.86%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) AWS
2 4 (11.43%) GCP
2 4 (11.43%) npm
3 3 (8.57%) Slack
4 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) MS Access
1 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.86%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) WiX
3 1 (2.86%) Appium
3 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.86%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) Selenium
3 1 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 18 (51.43%) Social Skills
2 10 (28.57%) Finance
3 7 (20.00%) Marketing
4 6 (17.14%) Publishing
5 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (5.71%) Automotive
8 2 (5.71%) Games
8 2 (5.71%) Law
9 1 (2.86%) Legal
9 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.86%) Retail
9 1 (2.86%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 6 (17.14%) Developer
2 6 (17.14%) Project Manager
3 5 (14.29%) Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) React Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Senior React Developer
5 3 (8.57%) E-Commerce Manager
5 3 (8.57%) E-Commerce Project Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Administrator
6 2 (5.71%) Angular Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Applications Support
6 2 (5.71%) Designer
6 2 (5.71%) Graphic Designer
6 2 (5.71%) IT Administrator
6 2 (5.71%) Social Media Designer
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Product Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Junior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) CSS
1 4 (11.43%) React
1 4 (11.43%) React Native
1 4 (11.43%) REST
2 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.71%) D3.js
3 1 (2.86%) .NET
3 1 (2.86%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.86%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.86%) Gherkin
3 1 (2.86%) RESTful
3 1 (2.86%) SOAP
3 1 (2.86%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (11.43%) Mobile App
4 3 (8.57%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.71%) Graphic Design
5 2 (5.71%) Social Media
6 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Android
2 4 (11.43%) Apple iOS
2 4 (11.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (42.86%) Agile
3 11 (31.43%) User Experience
4 8 (22.86%) Project Management
4 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (17.14%) Analytics
5 6 (17.14%) Clean Code
5 6 (17.14%) User Stories
6 5 (14.29%) A/B Testing
6 5 (14.29%) Asset Management
6 5 (14.29%) Backlog Management
6 5 (14.29%) Customer Service
6 5 (14.29%) Product Backlog
6 5 (14.29%) Product Strategy
6 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 4 (11.43%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (11.43%) E-Commerce
7 4 (11.43%) Performance Management
7 4 (11.43%) Time Management
7 4 (11.43%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
2 5 (14.29%) SQL
3 3 (8.57%) C#
4 1 (2.86%) PHP
4 1 (2.86%) Python
4 1 (2.86%) R
4 1 (2.86%) Ruby
4 1 (2.86%) XAML
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Google
2 5 (14.29%) Intel
3 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.71%) Adobe
4 2 (5.71%) Instagram
4 2 (5.71%) Sage
4 2 (5.71%) Twitter
5 1 (2.86%) Aareon
5 1 (2.86%) Capita
5 1 (2.86%) Civica
5 1 (2.86%) NEC